Comments on: It’s True. I Might Unfollow You. http://www.monagrayson.com/its-true-i-might-unfollow-you/ Choosing love and making good memories. Questioning the mind. Mon, 23 May 2011 03:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Eliana Gilad http://www.monagrayson.com/its-true-i-might-unfollow-you/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Eliana Gilad Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:21:35 +0000 http://www.monagrayson.com/?p=101#comment-333 Wow Mona, I appreciate your post. I notice that I am avoiding even going to Twitter because it is so confusing to me. I don't have a system. I don't know why I really want to be there. Well, I would want to be there to develop business relationships - or relationships in general, but how to choose, is something that I don't have clarity on. Your post gives me food for thought. Perhaps I will go check it out again. .-= Eliana Gilad´s last blog ..<a href="http://inspirationalmessage.blogspot.com/2009/08/dancing-pentatonic-scale.html" rel="nofollow">Bobby McFerrin Dances the Pentatonic Scale</a> =-. Wow Mona, I appreciate your post. I notice that I am avoiding even going to Twitter because it is so confusing to me.

I don’t have a system. I don’t know why I really want to be there. Well, I would want to be there to develop business relationships – or relationships in general, but how to choose, is something that I don’t have clarity on.

Your post gives me food for thought. Perhaps I will go check it out again.
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]]> By: Mona http://www.monagrayson.com/its-true-i-might-unfollow-you/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Mona Sun, 31 May 2009 22:10:09 +0000 http://www.monagrayson.com/?p=101#comment-62 Also, it's cool to see what stuff I Tweet resonates with different people. Sometimes out of nowhere something I Tweet will lead to responses from people I'd never heard from before. My followers who were watching and listening and our paths wind up crossing at just the right time. Maybe about a certain food, or a movie, or a way I describe something. Never know what's going to bring people in closer. Also, it’s cool to see what stuff I Tweet resonates with different people. Sometimes out of nowhere something I Tweet will lead to responses from people I’d never heard from before. My followers who were watching and listening and our paths wind up crossing at just the right time. Maybe about a certain food, or a movie, or a way I describe something. Never know what’s going to bring people in closer.

]]> By: Mona http://www.monagrayson.com/its-true-i-might-unfollow-you/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Mona Sun, 31 May 2009 21:59:49 +0000 http://www.monagrayson.com/?p=101#comment-61 @PepperFire That's great that you love your followers so much and want to connect with all of them. I'm with ya... I love connecting with the followers that I'm connected with and I love meeting new followers who come out and say hello for the first time. I never know what's going to inspire my followers to make contact with me and it's okay if they don't contact me and they just choose to lurk. The important distinction for me is Follower vs Following. The people who are my followers...they're following *me* which means that I show up in their Tweet Stream. But they only show up in mine if I'm also following them. My whole blog entry here was about cleaning up the people that I'm *following*. Not the people who are following me (my followers.) So far, I have no reason to clean up my Follower list. I'm grateful for all them as they're reading or not reading my Tweets. And if they're moved by something I write and want to reach out, then it's great. I also don't have control over who chooses to follow me. (Other than blocking some of them which I have only done in the case of porn-ish people.) Other than that, everyone is welcome to follow me, and I am being more selective about who I choose to follow back. And who I start following in the first place. Glad the post resonated with you. And if you're one of @PepperFire's friends and you came here because she shared the link with you, welcome to my blog...and to Twitter! You can find me here: @monagrayson. @PepperFire That’s great that you love your followers so much and want to connect with all of them. I’m with ya…

I love connecting with the followers that I’m connected with and I love meeting new followers who come out and say hello for the first time. I never know what’s going to inspire my followers to make contact with me and it’s okay if they don’t contact me and they just choose to lurk.

The important distinction for me is Follower vs Following.

The people who are my followers…they’re following *me* which means that I show up in their Tweet Stream. But they only show up in mine if I’m also following them.

My whole blog entry here was about cleaning up the people that I’m *following*. Not the people who are following me (my followers.)

So far, I have no reason to clean up my Follower list. I’m grateful for all them as they’re reading or not reading my Tweets. And if they’re moved by something I write and want to reach out, then it’s great.

I also don’t have control over who chooses to follow me. (Other than blocking some of them which I have only done in the case of porn-ish people.)

Other than that, everyone is welcome to follow me, and I am being more selective about who I choose to follow back. And who I start following in the first place.

Glad the post resonated with you. And if you’re one of @PepperFire’s friends and you came here because she shared the link with you, welcome to my blog…and to Twitter! You can find me here: @monagrayson.

]]> By: Pepperfire http://www.monagrayson.com/its-true-i-might-unfollow-you/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Pepperfire Sun, 31 May 2009 21:03:53 +0000 http://www.monagrayson.com/?p=101#comment-60 I'm so glad you're in my tweetstream, Mona. I really like this list you've written and I would have preferred to have begun my twitter experience knowing then what I know about followers. Unlike you, perhaps, I expect that before too too long, I'll end up being one of those twits who has an enormous list of people following me. But, I am on a mission to create a personal connection with EVERY single one of my followers. And if there are 10,000,000 of them one day, I'm looking forward to it. I don't think I'm so picky about the aesthetics of someone else's avatar, (that doesn't mean I'm not), but, since I realized the importance of the follower, I don't add anyone unless they are recommended to me or because they initiated conversation with me. I think I may even have a couple of followers who haven't added their avatars yet. Shudder! Because of all of these reasons that you list in addition to my twilosophies, we agree with each other 100%, the quality of the followers is the only reason to join and become an active part of the twitterverse. Why would anyone do it any other way. It is so much deeper and richer when I am connected to the people who feed off of my silly inanities. I am bookmarking this page in my browser twitter favourites' links and will now give it to new twitterers who say hello in my tweet stream when they follow me, so they can make their twitterverse as rich as yours and mine is! I love this place. :) I LOVE my followers. :) I’m so glad you’re in my tweetstream, Mona. I really like this list you’ve written and I would have preferred to have begun my twitter experience knowing then what I know about followers.

Unlike you, perhaps, I expect that before too too long, I’ll end up being one of those twits who has an enormous list of people following me. But, I am on a mission to create a personal connection with EVERY single one of my followers. And if there are 10,000,000 of them one day, I’m looking forward to it.

I don’t think I’m so picky about the aesthetics of someone else’s avatar, (that doesn’t mean I’m not), but, since I realized the importance of the follower, I don’t add anyone unless they are recommended to me or because they initiated conversation with me. I think I may even have a couple of followers who haven’t added their avatars yet. Shudder!

Because of all of these reasons that you list in addition to my twilosophies, we agree with each other 100%, the quality of the followers is the only reason to join and become an active part of the twitterverse. Why would anyone do it any other way. It is so much deeper and richer when I am connected to the people who feed off of my silly inanities.

I am bookmarking this page in my browser twitter favourites’ links and will now give it to new twitterers who say hello in my tweet stream when they follow me, so they can make their twitterverse as rich as yours and mine is!

I love this place. :) I LOVE my followers. :)

]]> By: Mona http://www.monagrayson.com/its-true-i-might-unfollow-you/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Mona Mon, 25 May 2009 08:33:10 +0000 http://www.monagrayson.com/?p=101#comment-48 @Bev: If I knew then what I know now, I may have approached Twitter differently. Though, I gotta say I'm super grateful for my experience with it - even with all the noise I wound up collecting in my Twitter stream. Glad you're getting some ideas to help you keep yours nice and flow-y. @Tia: Good to see you here! I've only blocked totally pornographic ones. And that's only been like 4 or something? So I don't use the block feature very much. So far I haven't come across a situation where I've wanted to prevent someone from seeing my tweets specifically. If a spammer sees that I made a smoothie with blueberries...maybe it's for the best! Will look forward to seeing any tweets you have to share about how you are finding the best ways to use Twitter. Good for you for giving it some thought. I'm giving it a lot more thought now too and it feels GOOOD. @Bev: If I knew then what I know now, I may have approached Twitter differently. Though, I gotta say I’m super grateful for my experience with it – even with all the noise I wound up collecting in my Twitter stream. Glad you’re getting some ideas to help you keep yours nice and flow-y.

@Tia: Good to see you here! I’ve only blocked totally pornographic ones. And that’s only been like 4 or something? So I don’t use the block feature very much. So far I haven’t come across a situation where I’ve wanted to prevent someone from seeing my tweets specifically. If a spammer sees that I made a smoothie with blueberries…maybe it’s for the best!

Will look forward to seeing any tweets you have to share about how you are finding the best ways to use Twitter. Good for you for giving it some thought. I’m giving it a lot more thought now too and it feels GOOOD.

]]> By: Mom's Cafe Home Cooking http://www.monagrayson.com/its-true-i-might-unfollow-you/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Mom's Cafe Home Cooking Sun, 24 May 2009 17:35:44 +0000 http://www.monagrayson.com/?p=101#comment-47 I think you have brought up some very valid reasons for unfollowing someone on Twitter. I've only been on twitter a few months so in many ways am still trying to figure out how best to use it. At first I thought I had to follow everyone who followed me but have since changed my mind. The avatar issue is a good one especially if the avatar is offensive in any way. Some on twitter are so busy trying to get a huge number of followers which really defeats the idea of a social network. It would be better if they focus on quality followers instead. What I really liked about this article is it made me think about how best to use Twitter. Many of my followers are also bloggers that I enjoy reading their blogs and they read mine. So unfollowing the ones that really have no interest makes sense. Your point on quotes is a good one too something I am going to take into consideration. I'm curious as to whether you block or not? Some are clearly spammers/porn who are following so I'm wondering if it is just better to block them from seeing my updates? Any advice on this? TIA gardengnome1 on twitter I think you have brought up some very valid reasons for unfollowing someone on Twitter. I’ve only been on twitter a few months so in many ways am still trying to figure out how best to use it. At first I thought I had to follow everyone who followed me but have since changed my mind. The avatar issue is a good one especially if the avatar is offensive in any way. Some on twitter are so busy trying to get a huge number of followers which really defeats the idea of a social network. It would be better if they focus on quality followers instead.

What I really liked about this article is it made me think about how best to use Twitter. Many of my followers are also bloggers that I enjoy reading their blogs and they read mine. So unfollowing the ones that really have no interest makes sense. Your point on quotes is a good one too something I am going to take into consideration.

I’m curious as to whether you block or not? Some are clearly spammers/porn who are following so I’m wondering if it is just better to block them from seeing my updates? Any advice on this? TIA

gardengnome1 on twitter

]]> By: Beverly http://www.monagrayson.com/its-true-i-might-unfollow-you/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Beverly Sun, 24 May 2009 15:29:24 +0000 http://www.monagrayson.com/?p=101#comment-46 I already have a small hand-picked twitter stream, but you gave me some good ideas for keeping it that way going forward. Thanks! I already have a small hand-picked twitter stream, but you gave me some good ideas for keeping it that way going forward. Thanks!

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