Comments on: Twitter Q&A And A Twitter Challenge!

By: Jesse Barron

Jesse Barron — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:19:54 +0000

And what I really wanted to comment about but forgot to since I am so exhausted:

I am talking about people that I follow back. I’ve only blocked some obviously spammy Twitter accounts — like the one’s with auto blog feeds where the account owner does zero interacting…their Twitter is on autopilot and they probably rarely log in.

If a person from Omaha, NE following 500 people follows @AnnapolisAnchor then I assume its because they are interested in Annapolis.

If a person from “Somewhere, USA” following 32,845 people and only tweets affiliate links — I am not following them back. If I deem them to be too fake then I just block.

Jesse Barron’s last blog post..Soldier Found Dead in Annapolis

By: Jesse Barron

Jesse Barron — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:15:55 +0000

I'm sorry, I should correct myself: I am not following "spammy" people back. Like the "social media gurus" that seem to number in the millions on Twitter. I follow all "real" (yes, I know everyone is real) people back. I've learned with my other accounts that there is a critical number where following too many people back causes you to miss way too much. Even when I filter the people I follow in TweetDeck. I don't know exactly what that number is, but I've started pruning my other accounts because I've missed too much. So to correct myself, I follow individuals back that are not using Twitter solely as a marketing tool. Now with my @YourDebtDiet, I will follow everyone back. That is an account that *I* am using for marketing purposes. I will keep an eye out for @replies but won't otherwise try to follow conversations not related to me. I do try to follow conversations with @AnnapolisAnchor and @JesseBarron Jesse Barron’s last blog post..Soldier Found Dead in Annapolis

By: Eye Spy

Eye Spy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:17:32 +0000

Why woudl you want to exclude someone that is trying to find out more about Annapolis via Twitter? We had a follower from some other state ask us questions because she is looking for a job here. I agree with thinning the herd to a degree, but if you have a 100 loyal followers and a total of 1 million followers, if you reach 2 out of the majority that visit you, buy from you etc. isn;t that a good thing?

By: Jesse Barron

Jesse Barron — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:06:37 +0000

I am doing something a little different with the @AnnapolisAnchor Twitter account. Only Annapolis folks. In fact, I’ve blocked some other folks who I know are following for sake of following and nothing else.

Now that my personal @JesseBarron has gotten past 600, I am starting to go through and weed people out. So much junk. I wonder how many people of those actually read my tweets.

Now, another one of my Twitter accounts (@YourDebtDiet) — that one can be a free-for-all. I just want eyeballs. 210 followers in the last 14 hours after I started playing with that account last night. I followed each back.

And then there is still yet another secret Twitter account of mine out there.