Yeah, according to this slideshow (sorry guys, it’s in French), It seems like I’m a perfect twitter snob. So, first of all, what’s a Twitter snob? It seems that it’s someone who has a lot of followers, but who’s not really engaging his community. The perfect example might be someone like Kevin, or many others like him.
So far I have 500+ followers, and I follow 180+ people. And I have to admit something: A lot of people I follow write bullshit. Sorry if you’re one of’em. And it’s not only about crap-writing, it’s also about flood. There are too many people who send way too many tweets a day.
I use twitter as a way to communicate. A way to communicate with friends, and people I care about. Most of time, if I haven’t met you, if I have never heard of you, or even if you don’t seem to be interesting enough to me, I won’t follow you, because I don’t really care about you. In my humble opinion, I still follow way too many people I don’t care about, mostly to be kind of polite.
I care about my friends, I care about people I know. I focus about my close community, and I don’t act like I care about 700+ people. Come on, seriously, 700+ following? Are you a damn bot? I definitely think that the real twitter snob is the one who follow a lot of people and who don’t give his community enough attention.
I guess all of that makes me kind of a Twitter snob. So, whatever? Is carying only about people you like a crime?
Photo Credit: Chuck Coker
8 comments.
I’m a snob too then… but I don’t really want to be one. I just don’t have the choice to follow just the persons I’m really interested in and persons that don’t tweet like crazy all the time. If I start to follow everyone, then I can’t find interesting content in all the noise of my twitter timeline.
It’s just the way it is :(
By Mathieu, April 15, 2009.
Following back each of your followers is like watching all TV channels at the same time.
By Joffrey, April 15, 2009.
Mathieu: Don’t be sad about that, dude, be proud of it. As you say: It’s just the way it is!
Joffrey: Yeah, including boring channels ;)
By Bastien, April 16, 2009.
I guess I’m one too, by your definition of course!
I tend to follow only people I actually know or have any kind of interaction with in real life. If I don’t know the person that’s following me, I’ll wait to see if that person actually engages with my tweets and is interested: then I may follow back. That or they have an astonishingly great twitter feed and brilliant website! :)
By Yaili, April 16, 2009.
You should use Facebook more and twitter less. On Facebook, I am linked only to the people I physically know and care about. And I snob nobody ;)
By Laurent Raufaste, April 16, 2009.
Ha! Hope I’m not twittering too much these days ^^
And I guess I’m twitter snob too, not because I have a lot of followers, but ’cause I’m following more than they follow me ..
C’est grave docteur ? :D
By Ahmed, April 16, 2009.
Yaili: I guess we both are the same ;)
Laurent: The problem with Facebook: I have too many friends, and it’s not only about geek stuff.
Ahmed: Don’t worry buddy, you’re not a flooder, and you’re my friend, so it doesn’t matter!
By Bastien, April 16, 2009.
I’m also acting like a Twitter snob even if I’m twitting too much and I’ve not enough followers. I guess that’s a French attitude …
By Xethorn, April 20, 2009.