Comments on: Has Twitter lost its shine? http://webenso.com/has-twitter-lost-its-shine/ Make Sense of the Fast Paced Web Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:48:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Englightened Online Marketing » Blog Archive » Twitter’s summer http://webenso.com/has-twitter-lost-its-shine/comment-page-1/#comment-3765 Englightened Online Marketing » Blog Archive » Twitter’s summer Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:54:54 +0000 http://webenso.com/has-twitter-lost-its-shine/#comment-3765 [...] clearly drawn. Twitter is definitively morphing before our eyes, as I recently alluded to in my “lost its shine” post, but the question is into [...] [...] clearly drawn. Twitter is definitively morphing before our eyes, as I recently alluded to in my “lost its shine” post, but the question is into [...]

]]> By: sensei http://webenso.com/has-twitter-lost-its-shine/comment-page-1/#comment-3389 sensei Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:04:06 +0000 http://webenso.com/has-twitter-lost-its-shine/#comment-3389 Maria, Thanks for the clarification! You are so right, "follower notification" is a better description of the mechanism. And yes, I just ignore many of the notifications unless their updates show that they have something interesting to say. Maria,

Thanks for the clarification!

You are so right, “follower notification” is a better description of the mechanism. And yes, I just ignore many of the notifications unless their updates show that they have something interesting to say.

]]> By: Maria http://webenso.com/has-twitter-lost-its-shine/comment-page-1/#comment-3364 Maria Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:10:07 +0000 http://webenso.com/has-twitter-lost-its-shine/#comment-3364 Twitter HAS changed. I've been using it for nearly 2-1/2 years and I can't believe how different it is. Between the "follower collectors" and the spammers, the quality of tweets has dropped dramatically. One thing you mentioned above is "follower requests." Twitter does not have follower requests. It has new follower notifications. Just because someone is following you, you shouldn't feel compelled to follow back. Follow the people you WANT to follow. Chances are, the follower collectors -- those people who follow just to get more followers -- will drop you when you don't follow back. That's okay, isn't it? It's unfortunate that all of this is automated by bots that follow you depending on words in your tweets. If the new follower notifications bug you, just turn them off. A better way to add followers would be to follow the folks who engage you with @replies. Oh, and thanks for the link! Twitter HAS changed. I’ve been using it for nearly 2-1/2 years and I can’t believe how different it is. Between the “follower collectors” and the spammers, the quality of tweets has dropped dramatically.

One thing you mentioned above is “follower requests.” Twitter does not have follower requests. It has new follower notifications. Just because someone is following you, you shouldn’t feel compelled to follow back. Follow the people you WANT to follow. Chances are, the follower collectors — those people who follow just to get more followers — will drop you when you don’t follow back. That’s okay, isn’t it? It’s unfortunate that all of this is automated by bots that follow you depending on words in your tweets. If the new follower notifications bug you, just turn them off. A better way to add followers would be to follow the folks who engage you with @replies.

Oh, and thanks for the link!

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