Comments on: Twitter Friends – Tell Me About Yourself http://standardsgirl.com/2010/01/06/twitter-friends-tell-me-about-yourself/ Just Another SEO, W3C, WCAG All Around Compliance Blog Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:27:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Imran Anwar http://standardsgirl.com/2010/01/06/twitter-friends-tell-me-about-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-418 Imran Anwar Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:06:03 +0000 http://standardsgirl.com/?p=208#comment-418 Kristine, one of the reasons I've stopped growing my Twitter count is that I see those numbers as meaningless without real engagement. I do not automatically follow back people. I do not follow back even those with tens of thousands of followers and those that are obviously harvesting followbacks. 25000 followers and 75 tweets. Is that someone I want to follow? No. Like you, I am more interested in real connections with people. Glad to be building them with at least 100+ real people (in addition to people I already knew elsewhere) that I would NOT have met except twitter. Another hundred or so I enjoy occasional responses to/from. The rest, at least for now, are just numbers. As for me, besides being linkedin, my life is at http://imran.com/ImranAnwar . Take a look :-) Imran Kristine, one of the reasons I’ve stopped growing my Twitter count is that I see those numbers as meaningless without real engagement. I do not automatically follow back people. I do not follow back even those with tens of thousands of followers and those that are obviously harvesting followbacks.

25000 followers and 75 tweets. Is that someone I want to follow? No.

Like you, I am more interested in real connections with people. Glad to be building them with at least 100+ real people (in addition to people I already knew elsewhere) that I would NOT have met except twitter. Another hundred or so I enjoy occasional responses to/from. The rest, at least for now, are just numbers.

As for me, besides being linkedin, my life is at http://imran.com/ImranAnwar . Take a look :-)

Imran

]]> By: Smiffy http://standardsgirl.com/2010/01/06/twitter-friends-tell-me-about-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-417 Smiffy Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:50:41 +0000 http://standardsgirl.com/?p=208#comment-417 So, that probably means stuff that you *won't* find on my Twitter profile or my blog. Hmm; thinks. OK, here we go with 5 points that I don't think that any one person (apart from me) knows: I miss being able to go to Normandy (France) more than I do my birthplace, England. I can't throw or catch and have trouble judging the speed of objects. (Possibly why I hate sport.) Although I don't tend to watch movies (and would be quite happy in a TV-free world,) I would love to see William Gibson's "Neuromancer" made into a film by Ridley Scott. An Open-Source advocate through and through, I do love one Microsoft product: their "Natural" ergonomic keyboard. I find it very hard to discriminate speech from background noise - including other speech. So, that probably means stuff that you *won’t* find on my Twitter profile or my blog. Hmm; thinks.

OK, here we go with 5 points that I don’t think that any one person (apart from me) knows:

I miss being able to go to Normandy (France) more than I do my birthplace, England.

I can’t throw or catch and have trouble judging the speed of objects. (Possibly why I hate sport.)

Although I don’t tend to watch movies (and would be quite happy in a TV-free world,) I would love to see William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” made into a film by Ridley Scott.

An Open-Source advocate through and through, I do love one Microsoft product: their “Natural” ergonomic keyboard.

I find it very hard to discriminate speech from background noise – including other speech.

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