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Re: Top 10 Reasons to Follow Someone on Twitter

kelly — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:38:42 -0000

haha Stalking an ex is always funny! I follow usually to keep myself updated of the person's next blog entry.

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Follow Someone on Twitter

Nancy B — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:51:57 -0000

I follow people for fun, food, community, and a whole bushel of other reasons :-)

I recently broke my Twitter favorites into 2 posts… each uses Twitter for a different purpose and some have even had amazing transformations as a result:

Men of Twitter 2009 - http://tinyurl.com/66ofvr

Women of Twitter 2009 - http://tinyurl.com/7nq3od

I hope you find them as funny, helpful, and inspiring as I have!

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Follow Someone on Twitter

jacobmorgan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:57:16 -0000

couldn't agree more matt, twitter has been a virtually invaluable learning platform me. i think it's great that people can mix a bit of person in with their serious/business twitter, after all that's what i try to do.

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Follow Someone on Twitter

jacobmorgan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:55:55 -0000

and mr tweet is a wise man!

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Follow Someone on Twitter

jacobmorgan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:55:15 -0000

voices in your head huh? well you're following me so tell your voices thank you :)

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Follow Someone on Twitter

jacobmorgan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:54:55 -0000

haha thanks john, glad you enjoyed it :)

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Follow Someone on Twitter

John P. Kreiss — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:57:33 -0000

Jacob - This was hilarious and it included my top three.

!)Identify people with similar interests

2) Build relationships

3) Educational content

John P. Kreiss
SullivanKreiss, Inc.
Executive Search for Architecture, Engineering, Planning, and Landscape Architecture

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Follow Someone on Twitter

Joe Manna — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:52:26 -0000

I typically follow people of whom I know personally, respect and want to listen to them. Understanding the fact that we're all busy, it only takes a few seconds daily to stay abreast of my friend's current events.

Not to mention, it's a great way to build a support network of like-minded people on Twitter. I also enjoy following people because it's 'risk-free'... meaning I can unfollow them if I get tired of them.

Professionally, my marketing automation software company, Infusionsoft, we follow employees, executives and customers. Although, more folks are finding us, so it's working out to just a mutual follow.

~Joe

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Follow Someone on Twitter

geetarchurchy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:36:35 -0000

Personally it's all about learning - i try to follow people i think will help me understand the media/social media better and make me think proactively about developing my ways of comunicating.

I generally try to follow people who are not going to contribute to noise - if they're spamming for the sake of it then they quickly become unfollowed - there has to be some point to the majority of their tweets. Even if it's "run out of coffee", you know that person likes coffee, hey presto we've got soethign in common!

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Follow Someone on Twitter

hcdelp — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:18:33 -0000

10. Everyone else is following, so should I.

9. Just might follow me back. Please?

8. Avatar is irresistible to women.

7. One of the 9,000 Amazon employees I follow will realize the company cannot continue without me.

6. Not all tweets are @bff

5. Profile like trainwreck. Can't. Look. Away.

4. Tweets at least once per minute. What good is an inbox if it's not full?

3. Drops the F-Bomb.

2. Communicates with my arch-nemesis, who I refuse to follow but still need to spy on.

1. Is funnier than I am...ok, that's never actually happened.

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Follow Someone on Twitter

Kim Woodbridge — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:09:25 -0000

I follow those with similar interests, those that I can learn from, "friends" and people that might hire me. I started a new policy recently of following anyone who follows me unless it is an obvious spammer - it helps me find freelance work. Recently, however, I've had a number of followers with very very different interests than mine - I'm almost afraid of disappointing them with my liberal smart-ass ways ;-)