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By: Respect the Social! Be Responsible. | Kyle Lacy, Social Media - Indianapolis

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:30:57 +0000

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Auto-Invite and Breaking My Window | Kyle Lacy, Social Media - Indianapolis — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:55:31 +0000

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By: JediBlogger

JediBlogger — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:27:23 +0000

There are many ways to use Twitter, as there are of course many ways to use the force. The common soul, the energy that flows within us all, we attention craving info-addicted human collective unites and shares on Twitter in a new way, and tomorrow they’ll be another way, and you’ll still walk by 10,000 people a day in NYC and not stop and say hi, but take it in. It’s awesome, let’s just ride the wave and get out of it what we want, share what works, befriend who we can, and love and prosper in a quest for peace.

By: Judy Martin

Judy Martin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:57:44 +0000

I agree wtih Jim. For relationship building and business, I chose from the start to follow those whom I could best learn from or share with. Not concrete rules, but I’m a journalist, social media nut and into personal development – so that’s where I’m putting my energy.

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:13:22 +0000

Great post. I learned about Jim through twitter and was shocked when I found out he was leaving it due to what was going on with his account and the so many people he was following.

It’s great to see Jim back and I agree that quality is by far much better than quantity. There is no way you could read 20,000 tweets, it doesn’t build relationships and you won’t learn as much. I use twitter to learn and build relationships and I follow those who are follow worthy in my opinion.

Those who call us twitter snobs have diminished the true value that twitter could bring to us by expecting to be followed back instead of providing value and becoming follow worthy. That’s why you see so many people with thousands of followers and following thousands with only a few updates. That’s wrong.

Thanks for your post.

Mario

By: Anaman

Anaman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:14:52 +0000

hah! and i thought i was strange deleting dormant digg ‘friends who had several 0′s next to the account history. and deleting twitter friends who follow more than 300. why?
Imagine getting several RTs about the same news all day, getting shouts about useless ‘news’ articles… i could go on. i shall not. more people need to make real connections with the networks they are forming. or social networks will crumble the same way online chat rooms collapsed.

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:10:10 +0000

Quality does matter every time. Yet I can’t help but feel that Jim is to blame – he allowed the network to build, he didn’t have to follow everyone that followed him.

What about the people that he deleted that may be unaware of it and were genuine followers? Do they just get forgotten?

I don’t see the logic in complaining about the noise when you’re the user of the megaphone.

By: doitathometoday

doitathometoday — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:53:35 +0000

One deletes 20,000 for the same reason farmers have set fire to acres of farm land.
To perge the land of weeds and pest.

By: David King

David King — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:44:08 +0000

wow… 20k huh?

that’s a lot of messages to be getting daily… that’s for sure.

I am trying to build my twitter relationships daily! over 2k now… it’s a little bit of work!

By: Dan Taylor

Dan Taylor — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:35:55 +0000

Agreed Kyle and Brett – smaller is better. While I’m no twitter superstar, I almost prefer it that way. All those that I follow, I target by industry, and generally truly enjoy reading what these folks have to say. I can’t say that I’ve been to every single one of their personal pages (some don’t even have one), but I have been to quite a few of them, and make it a point to regularly interact with those that I follow both on and off twitter.