Why I Don’t Follow Many People On Twitter - I choose to follow EVERYONE!
This is a really important video on the real politics of twitter and how I use an amazing tool to keep track of everyone. You don’t need to follow everyone and I have to take issue with people who say that it’s rude, arrogant,or says something about their character (which is negative)
So here’s my case - I’m sure that not everyone will agree.
And here is the Hi-Def version for you to downland
The Case For Not Following Everyone Who Follows You On Twitter
(You should right click on that file and download it to your computer - it’s not designed to play straight away)
Feel free to spread this one around - I think this issue goes a lot further than Internet Marketing.
Ed
PS Check out Quotably.com and really make twitter fly - This video shows how you can pilot this amazing site…
April 14th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Thanks that the great tip about quotably.com - that IS brilliant!!
April 14th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Bloody hell you are one hyperactive mo fo Senior Dale! I thought getting the odd email was busy now following you on twitter and twitter now on my i-Google homepage it’s really eating into my sleep.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Thank you for the in-sight.
I am new to Twitter and appreciate the advice
April 14th, 2008 at 8:34 am
I am following you Ed…keep going…I am learning…Thanks!
April 14th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Ed,
You and Howie Schwartz seem to operate on the same level. When do you guys ever sleep! But I love to follow in your wake; so keep it up. I learn so much from both of you.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Quotably is indeed a great resource. Thank you for pointing it out. Off-topic: Ed, somebody selling his twitter account on ebay. http://tinyurl.com/5bzoy5 Current bid +$1100 Isn’t it ridiculous? People just do not know what marketing is all about.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Some of the below is from my Twitter responses to your vid.
Thanks for the intro to Quotably. Very handy tool. Any Twitter conversationalist should see this vid. Also, when I said “sends a certain message”, I should clarify. I have great respect for what you do online.
I should have said, “I can see how some people could perceive a certain message.”
It doesn’t mean the perceived message is fair, but you’ve done an excellent job at clarifying your stance.
What software do you use for your screencast/video recording? I can see you’re on a Mac so it’s not Camtasia.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
You could say TitterFantastic !
Great video Ed.
Malcolm
http://twitter.com/MalcolmRoss
April 14th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
How cool is Adobe Air, you can get tumblr and google analytics air apps also!
April 14th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
I use Screenflow on the Mac - It’s a game changing piece of software
April 14th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Insightful explanation Ed. I know from experience that you answer as you have responded me a few times.
I think we all use Twitter as we think it fits us. The great thing about that is it works great for all of us.
But hey slow down on finding a new thing everyday will ya I can`t keep up at this pace.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Sorry, this is not about your video - just wanted to ask if you’ve seen the article on Business week about a popular subscriber who has put his Twitter account up for sale on eBay- Wow! talk about using Twitter for Business the link is http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080414_539072.htm - could you post your thoughts on this? thanks, Megan
April 18th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Great info as usual Ed.
Biblical? Don’t you mean religious? meh, whatever lol
April 19th, 2008 at 8:03 am
1. Excellent as always!
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 am
This video is no longer available ? :-(((((
May 15th, 2008 at 10:29 am
[...] guess not. Ed Dale says in this movie that he simply can’t follow all the people on Twitter who are following [...]
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Hi Ed - Great tool and I love what you say about the two-way “pressure” time challenge of IM vs. twittering. I hadn’t thought of that but that is nice about twitter, especially with these tools you’re showing us. Question: when you do the @whoever reply feature through quotable or whatever does that then change your status to everyone, or is that a direct message. In other words, I like to leave my status something more… general, more accessible for new followers too. Or maybe I need to be updating it more.
Flock looks like it has some good “instant” solutions too, but even though right now I’m following way more people than are following me, I’m already getting overwhelmed following friends.
I wonder if it’s WORSE ettiquette to STOp following people. eek.