socialmedian: How can ANYONE follow 10,000 or more?

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Aug 12, 2009

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Caroline Halliwell asked a question I’ve frequently been asked “how can anyone honestly follow 10s of 1,000’s?”

She was talking about Twitter. I made fun of Chris Brogan because he follows almost 90,000 people on Twitter and today wrote an blog about friending and reputation.

Chris autofollows everyone back. I did that until a week ago.

Let’s be honest, if you are following 90,000 people you can NOT see every Tweet. Twitter won’t even display them all to you. TweetDeck won’t be able to get access to all of them. The stream moves too quickly. I figure that over about 25,000 people you are DE FACTO only seeing a random number of Tweets.

In fact, I’m now following 1,900 people and I only probably see 1/2 of all the Tweets. I miss all Tweets while I sleep, for instance, and a lot of times when I get home from interviews or dinners or other things I can’t catch up to all the Tweets I missed, and that’s with 1,900. So even I’m only seeing a random number of items.

There is a difference between Following (with a capital “F”) and following, the way Chris and I are doing i

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