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If You’re Finding Twitter ‘Boring’, It’s Because YOU Are Following Boring People

Source: TwitLinks

Nov 04, 2009

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A friend of mine recently announced that they were planning to leave Twitter to pursue other projects. Why? Because it’s “dull”.

Here’s the thing: if Twitter is boring, it’s because YOU made it that way.

It’s YOUR timeline. You chose who to follow, and who not to follow. You have complete control over the stream of updates you see, and if it’s dull, you take full responsibility.

I’ve written before about how the three keys to success on Twitter are to be famous, useful or interesting, but it works in reverse, too. If your Twitter feed is jam-packed full of random people you’ve added just for the sake of it (nor attempted to engage with), internet marketers and the very, very dull, it’s never going to be somewhere you desperately want to be.

And the only person you can blame is yourself.

The good news? It’s easily rectified. Just unfollow everybody who you find uninteresting. This may well be everybody in your network. (Including me – if you find me dull, don’t follow me. No hard feelings.)

This possibly will also include some of your ‘real life’ friends. Here’s a l

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