Comments on: Poll & Discussion: Is Twitter Still Awesome?

By: Jessica Clark

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By: Jessica Clark

Jessica Clark — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:24:40 +0000

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By: Steve @ 2009 Taxes

Steve @ 2009 Taxes — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:39:35 +0000

I used to get a lot more traffic from Twitter than I do today even with the number of followers greatly increased.

By: krissy knox

krissy knox — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:57:33 +0000

I find Twitter as useful as I’ve always found it, and I consider myself somewhat of an “early adopter,” starting in 2008, anyway. Twitter is what you make of it. If you are selective of who you choose to follow, not following spammers, and following those you have mutual interests with, you won’t find a bunch of clutter in your stream, and twitter will be as useful as always. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying be so choosy that you follow almost no one and that your follow to following ratio is out of whack — I think that makes one look pompous. But nobody can make you follow more people than you choose, and you need to make your selections carefully. This includes NOT autofollowing. This of course is your personal choice, but I have never autofollowed, and I have over 3,000 followers and am following over 3,000 people. My network is a close network of extreme value in my opinion and I know many of my friends (we are mutual followers) well. I know them well and they know me well bc we took a long time to follow each other and get to know each other. We did not just autofollow and amass quickly, before being able to get to know each other. We added value to one another’s lives, in the time it took to follow each other. I would never autofollow (so I believe now anyway!) as it would add spam to my stream, and make my strea meaningless. Some say this is the wrong way to do things, and it would insult a lot of people, especially if there are a lot of people who want to become your followers quickly. I say anyone that wants to network with me must wait their turn for me to answer them back, after I review their invitation, just as I must wait my turn, while they review me! If they can’t wait their turn, they can leave! This is what makes a good stream and a good network! I know there are those who say it is preferrable to add everybody immediately, even porn stars and spammers immediately, EVERYBODY, and then just weed out real perverts or spammers later as you find them. But I won’t do that. There would be too much trash in my stream, and just too much info I would not be interested in, and people I could not relate to, and I wouldn’t want to network with, that using twitter would be a waste of my time. So this is how I handle the situation. It works perfectly. I hope this explanation helped somebody! krissy knox

By: Jens P. Berget

Jens P. Berget — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:19:43 +0000

Twitter is still awesome. I agree that there are a lot of clutter, and people that are following other people in order to get more followers. And there are a lot of spammers out there as well.

But the great thing about Twitter is that it’s easy to filter and have conversations with the people you really want to be having the conversations with

By: Mana

Mana — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:15:51 +0000

I agree with something everyone has said on here, so I feel like a dummy still commenting after seeing all the good thoughts. I find Twitter still pretty awesome, except on Follow Fridays and Wonder Women Wednesday etc. I absolutely love the friendliness of folks on Twitter and I want to see and hear who is appreciated but these two trends are becoming just spam that drowns out the rest of the conversation.

I think the introduction of lists combined with apps that allowed me to watch favorite lists saved the Twitter experience for me. But as more and more get hungry for more followers I notice increased spammy behavior. So now I’m waiting for Twitter to issue advanced lists options where I can exclude certain hash tags or key words from lists.

By: Lara Kulpa

Lara Kulpa — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:48:45 +0000

It’s so interesting to read everyone’s different takes on the current state of Twitter. Thank you all for your comments!

Hi, Brad! I do agree that it seems facebook and twitter go back and forth sometimes wearing the crown. Personally, I recently took after Darren and made my facebook profile for “friend” contacts and created a page for business contacts. I’m liking that arrangement thus far.

By: CazMinx

CazMinx — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:46:54 +0000

I find myself not using Twitter as much as I used to, but that is probably true of all of my social media sites at the moment. I think that is more a reflection of my priorities, too busy and too tired to Tweet as often. I am still on their every day.

I think I am lucky because not a lot of my friends have embraced Twitter so I don’t have 8000 people tweeting useless crap in my feed everyday. The good thing about Twitter as opposed to Facebook etc is the fact that you don’t have to follow someone back and that if you have your Tweets on private and someone requests to follow you and you reject it, they have no way of contacting you on their to whine about “whhhhhhy didn’t you accept”.

I think Twitter is still awesome for that reason in particular, it is still my favourite social networking site.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:39:22 +0000

Absolutely, Twitter is still awesome. You get out of it (in my opinion) what you put in it. I’ve met information sources, life-long friends, confidants, teachers and mentors, and business partners. My focus is not numbers, per se, but quality contacts. Not every one who follows me is a quality contact and I’m sure some people I follow don’t consider me to be a quality contact for them. My feeling is that “birds of a feather tweet together”. You can tailor twitter to do / be what you want it to do / be. I have found, however, that it is important to know what you want from it. Like any other goal, if you don’t know what you want from it, you won’t likely figure out how to get it.

By: Gautam Hans

Gautam Hans — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:59:43 +0000

Twitter has changed a lot in these years, First the conversation was very high, links were less. But now links are more, conversation is less