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Re: The 3 Types of Twitter Followers

afallison — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:53:21 -0000

Twitter is so cool. I love the way disqus mixes the 2 so well Twitter is awesome. ;) moretwittertraffic.com

Re: The 3 Types of Twitter Followers

jacobmorgan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:53:40 -0000

well nonetheless, thanks for reading and for taking the time to comment!

Re: The 3 Types of Twitter Followers

Paul Wiggins — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:38:15 -0000

Nikki Pilkington beats me to it.

Re: The 3 Types of Twitter Followers

Jacob Morgan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:36:39 -0000

@daniel
twitter definitely becomes a "little black book" type of platform.

@michael
good point, the twitter followers who want to "learn." However if you look at their "following" pattern would you not consider these people minimalists or converstionalists? perhaps i should expand the definition

@nikki
well since you're reading this blog you're cool in my book :) it's not the quantity of followers you have but the quality of the discussions, that matters.

@Alex
I try to do the same as well, it's important to be able to provide value to the followers.

thanks everyone for commenting and for reading, hope to hear from all of you again soon.

Re: The 3 Types of Twitter Followers

Alex, aka SocialButterfly — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:51:38 -0000

Great take on explaining the Twitter-verse! I especially like the conversationalists and people who provide URLs to helpful content or respond when I post a question. I try to do the same in return.

Happy Twittering =)

Re: The 3 Types of Twitter Followers

Nikki Pilkington — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:42:10 -0000

I agree with michael - a lot of people follow others, not to engage in conversation, but to glean information, find new trends, and find info to pass on.

Some of the people I follow are people I like to chat with, others are people I like to learn from, and yet others are people I just like to keep an eye on ;)

I recently asked my followers why they followed me (I only have 200 or so but I wanted to know) and most of the said they follow because they like my articles and like the tips I Tweet.

Unfortunately no-one said they followed me because i was cool :(

Re: The 3 Types of Twitter Followers

Michael Durwin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:53:32 -0000

How about the Twitter users that are Following only to gleen a bit of genius from their target? I'd say about 45% Kevin Rose and Scoble followers fall into this category, while another 45% just want to be able to brag that they follow someone cool.

Re: The 3 Types of Twitter Followers

Daniel Graaff — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:19:10 -0000

As we see micro-blogging pop up, I think we are really getting a sense of the nature of humanity itself. There is a lot of revealing information about human beings themselves in this post that transcends Twitter.