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You’ve got a ton of Followers but are they Listening?

Source: Lifestream Blog

Aug 06, 2009

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Over the last few months Twitter (or the technology of micro-blogging) has marched its way to penetrate the mainstream and just like any new web technology that does this, we see a much wider base of users and then come the spammers. Even prior to this phenomenon there was a race to gain followers. Many felt that having a large number of followers would equate to being considered an “authority” and that messaging sent by these users would carry more weight. While in some cases that could be true, I feel that this is now more the exception than the rule.

This behavior seems to also have spread to other services such as FriendFeed and Facebook causing a huge followfest along with the blaring volume of messages that accompany being at a huge party. I’m not saying this is a bad thing, but with this new behavior comes the need to find a way to manage how to still effectively listen to the people that matter to you. Luckily there are quite a few tools that allow us to do this fairly effectively by creating lists of people that we can filter by.

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Hanna Wiszniewska,

Aug 07, 2009

Great article telling a lot about creating lists of followers - title is slightly misleading ;) (shouldn't it be are you listen to them...?) - via Louis Gray.