Comments on: Why I have Decided to Delete My Twitter Account

By: Jaimie Dobson

Jaimie Dobson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:04:07 +0000

The same message seems to be coming across with everyone in this thread: “quality not quantity”.

Good call!

BTW: Who is the pic of then Mark?

By: m a longbottom

m a longbottom — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:47:19 +0000

just like to say the profile image next to my comment isn’t me?

By: m a longbottom

m a longbottom — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:45:45 +0000

Without repeating – you are right – there’s always those nerdy stats like 99% of tweets by 1% of the twitter accounts. Which doesn’t matter as you know building relationships is more important than numbers.

All social media needs to be looked at on a specific person or business functionality as whats best for one isn’t for another.

Good to use http://friendorfollow.com which provides those people you are following but not who have not followed back. Gives people the opportunity to easliy find and unfollow thoe just looking for high follower stats.

One final point, always important to get reaction and interaction with constructive debate.

By: Jaimie Dobson

Jaimie Dobson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:16:33 +0000

Thanks Guys – some fine points. And yes Helen – I’ll keep an eye on your Tweets

By: Leo Borj

Leo Borj — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:47:20 +0000

So, you are suffering twitter-promiscuity. I also think you took the right choice. start from the beginning and build a person to person interaction database.

By: Alison Bannister

Alison Bannister — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:14:38 +0000

It’s easy to get worked up about the numbers of followers you do or don’t especially if you use Twitter for business. But as you point out if you follow tons of people you just get information overload.

My policy is to only follow people of interest, I don’t follow someone just because they are following me.

I am now following you at your new Twitter ID as you tweet interesting & useful info, so thanks

By: Helen Stothard

Helen Stothard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:17:11 +0000

This just goes to prove what I have said all along with Twitter, its all about quality not quantity. That being said I am not saying it in a “told you so” voice.

There are many mistakes made along the way in setting up a business, or social media campaign, and I think the important thing is to learn from them.

You have acknowledged the problem, come up with a solution and good luck to you.

Not sure if I will remain on the list of people you follow, but then I would only want to be on there if I thought it brought either value or entertainment to you, not just because I was a “number” used to hit a target.

Good luck.