Friendly Twitterly Observations
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Well, I would totally be stinking at NaNo if I was participating in it, but at least I've been very good with keeping my nose to the grindstone of my new wip. So, yay me. :)
As a result, my social networking time has gone down a bit this week. I know. Boo-hiss. Don't worry, it's not gone, just gone down. But this lack of time spent on various social networking sites has not inhibited me from observing what I think is strange behavior on Twitter.
Ah, hem. Allow me to explain.
First, let me announce to the cyber world that when it comes to Twitter, I'm almost a guaranteed auto re-follower. Yes, that's right, folks. If you are kind enough to follow me, I WILL follow you back.
However.
There are a few exceptions...
Exhibit A: If you follow me, and I go to your Twitter page and there is NO information about yourself and/or no blog or website listed. Well, I probably will NOT follow you back. Why should I? You know me but I don't know who you are. I don't like that element of surprise.
Exhibit B: If you follow me, and I go to your Twitter page and you only have ONE TWEET and it points to your blog. Then I go to your blog and I'm even more confused than if you posted nothing about yourself. Well, then I probably will NOT follow you back.
Exhibit C: If you follow me, and I go to your Twitter page and I see that you have over 1,000 followers but I also see that you've never written one tweet. NOT ONE. Well, then I'm probably NOT going to follow you back. Why? This is a social network. If you don't tweet then... what am I following exactly? And I'm also wondering how you got all those followers if you've never tweeted too.
Exhibit D: If you follow me, and I go to your Twitter page and your tweet postings confuse or scare me. Well, then I'm probably NOT going to follow you back. Sorry. Nothing personal against confusing-scary people. Must be me.
See? I'm really not that picky. :)
Although I can't help making one more "friendly" little Twitter observation that left me a little confused. I was reading a blog (not from my normal blog list so don't worry) and there was an author interview. "Great!" I thought. I love meeting new authors and hearing about their books. Well, at the end of the blog post, she said, "Come follow me on Twitter!"
Oh, how nice. Another social net worker. So I clicked on the link that brought me to her Twitter page. And you know what I saw? She had quite a few hundred followers (I can't remember exactly, but it was a good amount). But you know how many she was following back?
ZERO. Zip. Nada. Yep, she wasn't following one single person.
Well, that struck me as really odd. What does that say to you? Well, basically what that author was saying to me was "Come follow me because I have such important things to say but what other people have to say is not important."
Okay, maybe I'm putting words in her mouth. LOL But you get the gist. Why do people--especially authors-- insist on being antisocial on a social site? It boggles the mind.
MY mind, anyway. :)
That was all I picked up from Twitter this week. But I thought it was a lot considering I was hardly on it.
What about you? Notice any odd happenings on Twitter?
Are you an auto re-follower too? Or are you more picky? What makes you follow someone or NOT follow someone?
Well, I would totally be stinking at NaNo if I was participating in it, but at least I've been very good with keeping my nose to the grindstone of my new wip. So, yay me. :)
As a result, my social networking time has gone down a bit this week. I know. Boo-hiss. Don't worry, it's not gone, just gone down. But this lack of time spent on various social networking sites has not inhibited me from observing what I think is strange behavior on Twitter.
Ah, hem. Allow me to explain.
First, let me announce to the cyber world that when it comes to Twitter, I'm almost a guaranteed auto re-follower. Yes, that's right, folks. If you are kind enough to follow me, I WILL follow you back.
However.
There are a few exceptions...
Exhibit A: If you follow me, and I go to your Twitter page and there is NO information about yourself and/or no blog or website listed. Well, I probably will NOT follow you back. Why should I? You know me but I don't know who you are. I don't like that element of surprise.
Exhibit B: If you follow me, and I go to your Twitter page and you only have ONE TWEET and it points to your blog. Then I go to your blog and I'm even more confused than if you posted nothing about yourself. Well, then I probably will NOT follow you back.
Exhibit C: If you follow me, and I go to your Twitter page and I see that you have over 1,000 followers but I also see that you've never written one tweet. NOT ONE. Well, then I'm probably NOT going to follow you back. Why? This is a social network. If you don't tweet then... what am I following exactly? And I'm also wondering how you got all those followers if you've never tweeted too.
Exhibit D: If you follow me, and I go to your Twitter page and your tweet postings confuse or scare me. Well, then I'm probably NOT going to follow you back. Sorry. Nothing personal against confusing-scary people. Must be me.
See? I'm really not that picky. :)
Although I can't help making one more "friendly" little Twitter observation that left me a little confused. I was reading a blog (not from my normal blog list so don't worry) and there was an author interview. "Great!" I thought. I love meeting new authors and hearing about their books. Well, at the end of the blog post, she said, "Come follow me on Twitter!"
Oh, how nice. Another social net worker. So I clicked on the link that brought me to her Twitter page. And you know what I saw? She had quite a few hundred followers (I can't remember exactly, but it was a good amount). But you know how many she was following back?
ZERO. Zip. Nada. Yep, she wasn't following one single person.
Well, that struck me as really odd. What does that say to you? Well, basically what that author was saying to me was "Come follow me because I have such important things to say but what other people have to say is not important."
Okay, maybe I'm putting words in her mouth. LOL But you get the gist. Why do people--especially authors-- insist on being antisocial on a social site? It boggles the mind.
MY mind, anyway. :)
That was all I picked up from Twitter this week. But I thought it was a lot considering I was hardly on it.
What about you? Notice any odd happenings on Twitter?
Are you an auto re-follower too? Or are you more picky? What makes you follow someone or NOT follow someone?
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