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 ?
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.