Comments on: Social Media Top 5: I Have Fallen Out of Favor (sniff)

By: Marc Meyer

Marc Meyer — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:16:12 +0000

doug, I blame it all on the economy. For i too am shocked that myself with my beefy 300 followers are not on the top tweeps list. Feels like Dignation conspiracy II to me. I’m pissed~ thanks Doug for bringing it to my attention. Heads are gonna roll.

By: Mukund Mohan

Mukund Mohan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:04:39 +0000

Doug
My sense is social media is SO new that taking about best practices makes no sense. We’ll wade through this for the next few years and turn the thing around 180 degrees till we realize we were and are wrong all the while.

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:45:51 +0000

Peter, I have been seeing those same “suspended” pages for a while now as well.

I am also annoyed with the DMs like those you get– though I try to discern if it’s someone redeemable making a mistake or someone spamming.

If you can believe,it, I don;t bulk-follow people back. I actually at least have a cursory look at their pages.

By: Peter Kim

Peter Kim — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:45:23 +0000

Hi Doug – posting during baseball, eh?

I’m with you, because I need to click on an account to follow back, I look at stats in particular. If someone has recently joined Twitter and is following 2,000, then it’s pretty clear they’re a spammer. Second criteria – I drop people who send me sales-related DMs, e.g. “use this 15% off coupon to buy from my website.”

After I started on the new course, I ran across this page for the first time: http://twitter.com/suspended

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:12:45 +0000

Albert– yes, these things are silly but fun. I reserve the right to ridicule any list i am not on.

Alan, i do peek at each Twitter page before following back, to make sure I don;t consider them spammers or abusive. My threshold for relevance is fairly low, because I frankly don’t want to miss out on someone good due to a bad judgment.

Critical mass? at some point the network supports itself and starts to find you. I’m not sure i can assign a number to that.

By: alan macdougall

alan macdougall — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:08:00 +0000

“Now he follows (most) everyone back. More than my agreeing with that approach…”

Do you evaluate (if briefly) the tweets of our followers before you follow back ? And if so, do you have a threshold for relevance ? Or is critical mass really the only way to grow your social media footprint ?

signed- poorly ranked by twitter.grader.com

By: Albert Maruggi

Albert Maruggi — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:59:20 +0000

hmmm is this like American Top 40? Can’t chase the monkey, it’s like a crack pipe. So my son needs to get to bed and that’s where I’m going. The top 50 tweeples, Power Blogs, List of lists, will have to wait.

But what matters is you matter to the people that you matter to.

When you decipher that let me know.