Comments on: Twitter Principles: Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun

By: Louis - Free Classifieds

Louis - Free Classifieds — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:45:41 +0000

HI!
I have no use for secrets yet. I haven’t found a compelling reason to be hidden . If you want to follow thousands of people and I am one of them, that’s OK with me. And on that, my position hasn’t really changed: I don’t see that secrets provide enough benefit for me.

Louis

By: Louis - Free Classifieds

Louis - Free Classifieds — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:45:05 +0000

Louis

By: Jesse Liebman

Jesse Liebman — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:31:01 +0000

Going in willy nilly into Twitter will only set you up for failure. Do you need to let people know who you are? Yes, of course, but it's the manner you do it that will separate yourself. Here are the strategies I applied:

http://www.jesseliebman.com/2008/12/15/captain-...

By: Matt J McDonald

Matt J McDonald — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:18:04 +0000

I have a lot of the same experiences with people. I don't understand the “I barely have a presence here, but I'm going to pimp it anyway” mentality. Hopefully, as Twitter grows in popularity, some of the more positive habits will start to rub off on people. I don't know if there's a “right” way to use Twitter, but there's certainly a way to get more out of it than you otherwise would.

By: Matt J McDonald

Matt J McDonald — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:14:43 +0000

Lyn,

I know the type of people you're talking about. I usually tend to unfollow or tune them out if they're on a particular bender.

Claudia,
I agree that location is a good thing. Just having moved to Charleston, it's cool to see who else is in the area, and it gives me another way to connect. Glad you liked the post.

By: Kelly Olexa

Kelly Olexa — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:58:51 +0000

This is so simple yet so important! I'm astonished by how many new followers I get with absolutely NOTHING in their profile- no picture, no website, no information, no location…bizarre. And yet usually they have a bunch of tweets saying, “Tell your friends to follow me!” Yea.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:33:15 +0000

Personnally, I also like to see where people are located: being in Switzerland/Europe I like to hear voices from elsewhere. The way they “speak”, some specific subjects twittered, things like Momsblogging (and their power!) that don't exist over here, etc.. Maybe for those being in the US, who seem to be a large majority of Twitterers, is it less important? But Im' not sure. It might be interesting for you too to have voices from other countries on similar centers of interest.
Thank you for the piece of advice!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:00:33 +0000

I totally thought this article was going to be about people on twitter who mention “secret” stuff and purposefully tweet over and over about the secret thing, w/o revealing what it is. I have a lot of overly pompous people on my follow list that regularly do this and it's so irritating. Inevitably, their “secret mission” is some kind of privileged invite-only thing, but it isn't THAT interesting, or that big of a deal. IRather than making people interested in their project, I think most people interpret it the way I do – that the user is showing off and self-absorbed. Maybe the problem is that I have a lot of creative types on my list who take themselves way too seriously.

Also, for what it's worth, after seeing a similar topic on your blog, I was inspired to completely redo my twitter page to add more info using a custom background.