Comments on: The Twitter Numbers Game http://www.twitip.com/the-twitter-numbers-game/ Twitter Tips in 140 Characters or More Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: LoneWolf http://www.twitip.com/the-twitter-numbers-game/#comment-69986 LoneWolf Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:55:17 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=1326#comment-69986 Hey Jess! Thanks for the props. I'm glad you enjoyed the post. Hey Jess! Thanks for the props. I’m glad you enjoyed the post.

]]> By: Jess http://www.twitip.com/the-twitter-numbers-game/#comment-69978 Jess Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:11:20 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=1326#comment-69978 Thanks a ton for the info!!! great post!!! Thanks a ton for the info!!! great post!!!

]]> By: Doug Firebaugh http://www.twitip.com/the-twitter-numbers-game/#comment-20396 Doug Firebaugh Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:08:21 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=1326#comment-20396 GREAT post and content rich. THIS is a great post for every person on twiitter to read. Thanks for sharing and for the content! LOTS of meat here and great insight. GREAT post and content rich. THIS is a great post for every person on twiitter to read. Thanks for sharing and for the content! LOTS of meat here and great insight.

]]> By: LoneWolf http://www.twitip.com/the-twitter-numbers-game/#comment-19932 LoneWolf Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:37:27 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=1326#comment-19932 Hi Jeri. Thanks for the good points. I've seen the dossy.org site a couple of times and I'm always leery of trying things that want my password -- just bad karma if you'll pardon the pun. I realize that the Twitter API makes it necessary right now though. Maybe someday I'll be brave enough to give it a go. As for the #need2000, I think people would be better served to find out who they're following that isn't following back and maybe trim that number. That way they could find a more meaningful group of people to follow, one's that will interact. There are probably a number of inactive accounts that they're following that they can unfollow. I don't particularly like to follow people just so they have enough followers to get more. I'd rather follow people because they are interesting to me. That's why I follow people who comment on my posts 8=) Hi Jeri. Thanks for the good points.

I’ve seen the dossy.org site a couple of times and I’m always leery of trying things that want my password — just bad karma if you’ll pardon the pun. I realize that the Twitter API makes it necessary right now though. Maybe someday I’ll be brave enough to give it a go.

As for the #need2000, I think people would be better served to find out who they’re following that isn’t following back and maybe trim that number. That way they could find a more meaningful group of people to follow, one’s that will interact. There are probably a number of inactive accounts that they’re following that they can unfollow.

I don’t particularly like to follow people just so they have enough followers to get more. I’d rather follow people because they are interesting to me. That’s why I follow people who comment on my posts 8=)

]]> By: Jeri http://www.twitip.com/the-twitter-numbers-game/#comment-19111 Jeri Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:52:15 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=1326#comment-19111 Nice explanation...thanks... In regard to the "2000 Twitter Follow Wall" many hit unexpectedly.....check out the group #need2000 a place tweets can go help each other over that hurdle. I also found this site helpful when it was time to tidy things up. http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ Nice explanation…thanks…
In regard to the “2000 Twitter Follow Wall” many hit unexpectedly…..check out the group #need2000
a place tweets can go help each other over that hurdle.

I also found this site helpful when it was time to tidy things up.
http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/

]]> By: LoneWolf http://www.twitip.com/the-twitter-numbers-game/#comment-18553 LoneWolf Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:46:21 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=1326#comment-18553 Hi Patty. I'm glad that you enjoyed this post. I'm a fan of Twitter too and becoming more so every day. Andy's comments on messing with your brand are well taken. Unfortunately, there is a group of people who aren't interested in brand and they will take any means to get traffic for their purposes. I guess even .001% of millions of spam messages is worth it to them. Until there is no return or the cost of sending out the spam increases we'll always have them around. At least Twitter allows us to opt-out and even block them. Marking them as spam is also useful. Hi Patty. I’m glad that you enjoyed this post. I’m a fan of Twitter too and becoming more so every day.

Andy’s comments on messing with your brand are well taken. Unfortunately, there is a group of people who aren’t interested in brand and they will take any means to get traffic for their purposes. I guess even .001% of millions of spam messages is worth it to them.

Until there is no return or the cost of sending out the spam increases we’ll always have them around. At least Twitter allows us to opt-out and even block them. Marking them as spam is also useful.

]]> By: Andy Beard http://www.twitip.com/the-twitter-numbers-game/#comment-18300 Andy Beard Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:18:25 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=1326#comment-18300 There is a vital element missing - risk aversion Just as you don't play silly automated tricks with your primary branded money sites, think twice before you potentially tarnish your primary Twitter account. Certainly when I get followed by someone who I see has followed 2000, and only has 100 followers, joined that day, and very few updates, I just click away or worse, report as spam to @spam. There is a vital element missing – risk aversion

Just as you don’t play silly automated tricks with your primary branded money sites, think twice before you potentially tarnish your primary Twitter account.

Certainly when I get followed by someone who I see has followed 2000, and only has 100 followers, joined that day, and very few updates, I just click away or worse, report as spam to @spam.

]]> By: Patty http://www.twitip.com/the-twitter-numbers-game/#comment-18208 Patty Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:14:42 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=1326#comment-18208 Always find great tips, tools and advice from this blog...great post! I ♥ twitter! Always find great tips, tools and advice from this blog…great post! I ♥ twitter!

]]> By: LoneWolf http://www.twitip.com/the-twitter-numbers-game/#comment-18175 LoneWolf Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:33:01 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=1326#comment-18175 @Jesse -- thanks for the comments. I checked out your post and it is some good advice. I'd recommend that the rest of you check it out. I think the more people on Twitter know how the spammers operate, the quicker spammers will die out. I think the opt-in nature of Twitter will make spamming too "expensive" for the results they get. @Jesse — thanks for the comments. I checked out your post and it is some good advice. I’d recommend that the rest of you check it out. I think the more people on Twitter know how the spammers operate, the quicker spammers will die out. I think the opt-in nature of Twitter will make spamming too “expensive” for the results they get.

]]> By: Jesse Luna http://www.twitip.com/the-twitter-numbers-game/#comment-18148 Jesse Luna Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:03:18 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=1326#comment-18148 Nice comprehensive post! The explanation of the "follow up to 1.1 X your followers" rule has been a bit of a secret for a while. It should help folks explain the patterns and dynamics of spam accounts and why they always seem to to be following 1800 to 2000 people and only have a couple of hundred auto follows. What's been bothering me, is the when people take all of this follow pattern information and still try to game the system with superficial "chatty accounts". They follow a bunch of people, then start replying to people with many followers so that it looks like they are actually having a conversation with them. I wrote a brief post on it on my blog (click my name link above to see it) . Nice comprehensive post! The explanation of the “follow up to 1.1 X your followers” rule has been a bit of a secret for a while. It should help folks explain the patterns and dynamics of spam accounts and why they always seem to to be following 1800 to 2000 people and only have a couple of hundred auto follows.

What’s been bothering me, is the when people take all of this follow pattern information and still try to game the system with superficial “chatty accounts”. They follow a bunch of people, then start replying to people with many followers so that it looks like they are actually having a conversation with them. I wrote a brief post on it on my blog (click my name link above to see it) .

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