Comments on: I’m a Twitter Snob? Maybe

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:09:40 +0000

I recall seeing a Twitter account that did nothing but post links. I thought it was spammy, until I clicked through some of the links and it was a different TwitPic each day, with a different message per day. Very unique. Sadly I haven't seen it in a while, but definitely a great way to engage. Everybody's different

By: Sasha H. Muradali

Sasha H. Muradali — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:18:42 +0000

Wow, I should be surprised someone sent that to you, but then again I'm not.

I think following to follow ratio is about engagement and what you are looking to get out of Twitter.

For example, if a car company follows me, but only tweets about their cars, doesn't engage and I don't even own their brand -- why would I follow them back? Not interested. Whereas, I know of one specific makeup brand out there, where their PR girl is on their Twitter engaging with their buyers, telling them about the latest shades, she Twit Pics like crazy -- that girl, yes I follow her back. She's interesting and unique and I "get" something out of her.

So all these people who say others are snobs...maybe they're just jealous you have more followers than them? Better yet, maybe they are jealous because you aren't following them?

Oh, dear.

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:16:35 +0000

Couldn't have said it better myself. I think there's a line between “snobbery” and “discerning choices”, and possibly that's blurrier to some than others. Possibly…

By: mighty red pen

mighty red pen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:02:59 +0000

Hi Danny — I kind of see it the other way, that folks who have equal numbers of followers as they are following are probably not discriminating enough about who they are following. Twitter is not a mutual admiration society. I don't mind who follows me but I have a focused set of information I'm looking for from the folks I follow, so I don't follow everyone who follows me. It seems like an extension of blogs — not everyone who reads my blog writes a blog that I would also be interested in. What makes that snobbery? It's just knowing what you're interested in, IMO.

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:47:02 +0000

Hey there Dan,

Ah, now that's a great point you make. So, by that logic, I'm guessing we're all snobs of many things? Blog advertising, design, format, the social networks we're not part of, grocery shopping, etc… Perhaps my butt is a snob for using a certain type of loo roll…

Cheers bud!

By: dhutson

dhutson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:35:51 +0000

Hey Danny, I'll bet you're an advertising snob, too. I know I am. I ignore maybe 95% of the advertising thrown my way.

I wasn't aware that being social on Twitter meant engaging in indiscriminate relationships with every individual (or MLM robot, or Britney pornbot) that knocks on my virtual door. Sounds like unsafe SM to me.

By: shannonaronin

shannonaronin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:11:08 +0000

Hmmm… I guess being in the 1,200 range I can't imagine 100 @ replies at once lol. My blog typically doesn't attract this much attention yet . If someone is THAT much of a celebrity I guess it would be fair to let it go. Is Ashton Kutcher a Twitter snob? Honestly I have no way of knowing but chances of him responding if I send him an @ are slim and I would be ok with that if I had anything to say to Ashton Kutcher. But as someone else pointed out Guy Kawaski does *most* of his own tweets. He has also said sometimes it's his people and has been open about that. But I once mentioned alltop on a Sun. night and had a response in 5 minutes. @WholeFoods has a huge # of followers and I think they took a day. Now I am also very patient. If it takes you a week to get back to my @ message, I'm ok with that. But if I have said something worthy of a response, then respond dammit! But if you haven't then I don't usually care enough to track you down. Like email my theory is send it and forget it. If the conversation continues, great. If not I am not personally wounded b/c I can't remember everything I sent out. And this is at moderate usage with about 1,200 followers and 1,300 followees. So I don't expect others to be perfect either. And if I really need something from you then I'll bug ya till you notice me. Bottom line is that perhaps the most important “Twitter rule is to “lighten up” and not take ourselves so seriously!

By: CTK1

CTK1 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:10:16 +0000

To Follow or not To Follow. I imagine you are a Twitter snob if you don't take at least an hour out of everyday to communicate with Britney as she sucks. Britney has a zillion friends for us to meet. I met one the other day named @fJJkkk2334z7 …seemed a real nice girl, except that she sucked.

Alas, I didn't follow her back.
And I may unfollow you because you have used ASTERISKS instead of the F word.
But I'll decide this later.

By: Jackie Adkins

Jackie Adkins — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:44:48 +0000

I'd go out on a limb and guess the person who emailed you has “Social Media Guru” in their Twitter profile…

When I'm looking at someone I don't follow and see their numbers are “skewed” like yours that is always sort of reassuring to me because it tells me that user probably enjoys interacting with their followers, which is why they don't want to follow every spammer who follows them.

By: Mickey Gomez

Mickey Gomez — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:17:50 +0000

Oops, language fail on my end. By “automatically follow”, I meant I'd see who was following me and click to follow them back without question. I did it manually, though – I've never used auto-followers (they kinda drive me nuts, actually, along with the auto-DMs). And I like the magic of discovering new people on Twitter too much to let a program do it for me.