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Which Tweople Are You?

Filed Under (Valued Bookmarks, social media) by willowdan on 05-03-2009

I got on twitter about late 2007. None of my friends were on twitter yet, as they were mostly in Friendster. It was only this year, 2009, that I begun realizing how twitter is dominating the Social Media. So I started following anyone who don’t even have something of interest to me to say or tweet. I even had this special attention to people with large numbers of followers. No clear idea what I was doing, so I just started following as many people as I could.

As my own twitter followers began to grow, it was just impossible to keep up with my twitter feed (a timeline of the tweets of those you are following), even the DM(direct messages) are already overwhelming, but I have to answer them one-by-one. Plus, I could no longer take the time to go to every followers page and decide whether I wanted to follow back or not.

Thanks to TweetLater, it sends an auto reply message to everyone who follows me and also follow them back automatically.

The number of people I was following grew to hundreds, a crowded twitter feed.

Instead of bothering myself of the the huge number of feeds, I focused on posting my own interesting tweets, and replying to @replies and direct messages.

For twitterers and topics I was very interested in following, though, I have to make use of twitter’s search function, which takes time.

Thanks now to TweetDeck.

TweetDeck

An Adobe AIR aplication that is full-packed almost all-in twitter tool. You can create groups of people to follow, set-up custom searches of keywords and topics, plus you can display your direct messages and replies.

Now, which of the two groups of Tweople do you belong?

1. Those who follow everyone back.

This is part of the general etiquette, an unwritten rule so-to-speak. Doing so isn’t merely courteous but encourages goodwill between you and your followers, therefore people will respond to you more as their followers see how you conduct yourself leading to your eventual popularity ;). The bigleaguers do practice this, why won’t we?

2. Those who only follow a select few.

To keep you feed manageable, this can be a good one to practice. But a bit of concern is that you cannot receive direct messages from those you’re not following, though you can see the replies sent to you. This may give much prestege and exclusivity.

Actually, those who do not belong to either groups are in the third one, those that simply follow anyone as fast as they could, and has the slightest sincerity to tweet sensible words. Or often they do make sensible ones, but mostly to harrass tweople of different marketing offers.

Well, honestly, I do sneek into the third group a few times to gain few followers, but I make sure I get out from it in a day or two. Unfollowing is quite easily done with by a bomb twitter application called Twitter Karma. In Tweeter Karma you can sort by all friends and see the relationship (you follow them/they follow you) or sort by people you follow but that don’t follow you and vice versa. If you haven’t caught up with everyone that you want to follow, you can go to the “only followers” page, select all and then bulk follow. You can also bulk unfollow people. Results are sorted by last update, so if you scroll to the bottom of the screen you can easily delete people with dead or stagnant accounts.

I hope these information are useful enough for most of my readers