Comments on: Join the Twitter Conversation. http://www.sign-up.to/blog/2009/05/08/join-the-twitter-conversation/ Email, Mobile and Social Media Marketing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:26:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gareth Langston http://www.sign-up.to/blog/2009/05/08/join-the-twitter-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-807 Gareth Langston Wed, 13 May 2009 16:49:00 +0000 http://blog.sign-up.to/?p=693#comment-807 Hi Chris, If you have any further questions about hashtags don't hesitate to ask on twitter. Send your questions to @signupto. Twollo is an interesting website and certainly a useful service for some but by auto following people who mention certain subjects you miss out on the most important part of twitter, which is authenticity. I would prefer to see information on a particular subject by using the various search services and then following anyone I found to be interesting or knowledgeable rather than de-valuing my follow by collecting a large number of people who's content is largely irrelevant to me. In essence what you are doing is the same, filtering the people you follow by following a lot and keeping the ones that are most relevant, but I would be wary of the negative impact of following a lot of people at once. Hi Chris,

If you have any further questions about hashtags don’t hesitate to ask on twitter. Send your questions to @signupto.

Twollo is an interesting website and certainly a useful service for some but by auto following people who mention certain subjects you miss out on the most important part of twitter, which is authenticity.

I would prefer to see information on a particular subject by using the various search services and then following anyone I found to be interesting or knowledgeable rather than de-valuing my follow by collecting a large number of people who’s content is largely irrelevant to me.

In essence what you are doing is the same, filtering the people you follow by following a lot and keeping the ones that are most relevant, but I would be wary of the negative impact of following a lot of people at once.

]]> By: Chris Healey http://www.sign-up.to/blog/2009/05/08/join-the-twitter-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-805 Chris Healey Tue, 12 May 2009 20:17:52 +0000 http://blog.sign-up.to/?p=693#comment-805 Hey Gareth - thanks for clarifying the hash #... it still is a bit confusing, but then again so was Shakespeare the first time you read it. ok, maybe that's a stretch... Just to add my 2 cents: been using a tool called Twollo to find people to follow based on keywords. I like art, so I have set a search to find people talking about art and follow them. It is alot at once, but I have made some great connections. The tick is to keep ontop of it. Hey Gareth – thanks for clarifying the hash #… it still is a bit confusing, but then again so was Shakespeare the first time you read it. ok, maybe that’s a stretch…

Just to add my 2 cents: been using a tool called Twollo to find people to follow based on keywords. I like art, so I have set a search to find people talking about art and follow them. It is alot at once, but I have made some great connections. The tick is to keep ontop of it.

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