Comments on: Why You Should Start Over On Twitter With A BRAND NEW Account

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:54:48 +0000

Adding to the wonderfui advice above, an easy way to delete your account and start fresh is to 1) Go into your twitter.com settings and change the twitter username; then 2) create a new account with the old username which is now available. Then, phase out #1.

By: Matt Meeks

Matt Meeks — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:19:12 +0000

This article is equivalent to the New York Times saying, “You know what, when we started printing we didn’t really have it down to a science and a lot of the people who read our stuff don’t ever write back to us, so… we’ve just decided to delete our subscription lists and start over.”

By: Allen Shadow

Allen Shadow — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:59:58 +0000

I don’t have half the experience you have, but I figured most of what you came to from the near beginning. First, I vet all followers. If they’re junk, I don’t pursue. I don’t have a small, more meaningful following, and I tweet about my passions, including interesting, well-written posts from my blog. I figure I’m still learning — like the rest of us — but I’m doing it my way.

By: Mary Anne Baker

Mary Anne Baker — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:42:12 +0000

Thank you for putting the true context of Twitter to print. So many folks are determined to grow their followers without regard to the value. The simple principal of quality over quantity is the greatest ROI for our valuable time!

By: Sherry Parfait

Sherry Parfait — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:14:24 +0000

Great advice. Although I don’t feel the need to do it with my own account, I think it would be great for anyone that is in your situation to start off the new year with a fresh approach to Twitter. I was clearing out some followers a few days ago, many of them because they simply abandoned their accounts months ago. I think your advice would come in handy for some of those folks.

By: MikeStoute

MikeStoute — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:03:15 +0000

I found twitwalls, but what is tweetads for tweets?

By: Alrady40

Alrady40 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:09:03 +0000

MIKE… I dont’ know your boss but most bosses like to see results. Rather than try to convince him by talking – show him.

Build another ID that you can eventually merge… Got to that tweet penquin and justtweetit and twibes etc. and add people that YOU are convinced are of value. For me I find value in eclectic and very varied interests. For your purposes it may be people in a particular field – I dont’ know. I am sure you get the idea . Spend 15 minutes a day at least building the relationships and even more if necessary. We all waste some time so count it your FUN time. LOL

After one week show him the results… the better retweets, the better responses personally and hopefully increased exposure for whatever it is you do .

Also just in general I am amazed at how few businesses take advantage of tweetads for tweets and twitwalls. There is gold mine opportunity with lots of low priced ads available for more exposure… maybe your boss would be interested in that. A lot less work than weeding out robot additions.

By: MikeStoute

MikeStoute — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:12:31 +0000

OMG!! I just redid my old account. We never used it much but we had a bot collecting followers like an idiot. I spent all day today unfollowing (un doing what I had done) Now if I could only convince my partner to stop refeeding crap and just RT’ing everything. He seems to just want to refeed everything or just RT stuff to try and get traffic like link dumps.

How can I convince him to make his twitter account real, I mean his flat out looks like a bot is running it even though it’s a human behind it?

By: Jonathan Rivera

Jonathan Rivera — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:43:47 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this very topic for the past few weeks. I’ve tried multiple twitter strategies and I am finding my experience to be unfulfilling.

Yeah, I see some traffic coming to my blog and some people clicking my links, but I know there’s more to twitter than this. After reading this post I think I’m ready to start my new account which will be quality over quantity.

Thanks for giving me the push I needed to start over.

By: WebKarnage

WebKarnage — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:48:51 +0000

I’ve always blocked those who followed me without any connection to me and what I am or do. I usually have about 140-150 followers and follow about 80. I do have another account I opened recently, but that is for a new venture. I am not a big magazine/review site who can legitimately look at having 5000 followers

I’ve never understood the follow everyone thing! If I don’t like someone’s tweets, I unfollow them, just as I’d expect them to do with me. I have common ground with all those I follow.

I have a live search going on a keyword involved in what I’m seriously in to and this is a great way to pick up new and meaningful twitter connections.

I hope more people follow your lead (sorry about that!) as I’m sure that’s how you really get something from Twitter.