I wrote something about Facebook and related social networking community before, now I have my thought about Twitter. Somehow, I wake up in the morning, whats my first thought? “I GOTTA GET MORE FRIENDS”
Who lives like this? These people really completely miss the value in twitter. Popularity is not an indication of quality, check out this search for “followers” on Summize, its seems to be everyone’s biggest worry and I just don’t get it.We now have the usual Social networking whores advising us on programs to get to 10,000 followers in 30 days, can it be done? Yes, absolutely but you will have built up a community of 10,0000 idiots just like you...
Your twitter stream is a community of friends, why would you infect it with this bullshit, would you do this in real life?
I am positive you wouldn’t.Take for example the famous twitter purge of spammers this week, where people lost 100’s of followers or practically 10% of their friends, I lost slightly over .01% and I had to even check that using some numbers tool.
I never watch numbers, I watch content, I like what friends do and what they recommend to me.... which is none... Thats Twitter’s value to me.
Next Question: Whats Twitter’s value to you? are you a number jockey?
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