Following You
How Many Do You Want?
People using Twitter seem to be obsessed with how many “followers” they have. It’s as if it is a status symbol or contest of some sort. I even saw someone today bragging about getting 100 followers in one day by simply signing in on this website, which allows you to buy followers at three different prices. I thought, WHY? Perhaps as a celebrity there is a value in having more followers. I see Conan Obrien creating an audience for his I Will Survive Tour, and staying in touch with his 873,577 fans after losing his show, but he surely didn’t have to buy those followers. People with a universal message of goodwill should accumulate as many followers as they can, such as Bill Gates, to promote his foundation for a better world.
“Please”
For the average person to benefit from Twitter, these three things more important than how many followers you have:
-Having the right followers-Your target audience
-Following the right people-Those you can learn from
-Having something to say-Something to make you worth following
When those three things are in order and working, Twitter becomes a very valuable tool for business. Without them it is purely a distraction and a waste of time.
April 23rd, 2010 at 8:58 am
Ron,
I could not agree more. If you are involved in something that others are fascinated in, great, let them find you and follow, but other than you actually having something important to share, you should follow those who can help you. Otherwise, we have a sea of unimportant gossip mostly all over the internet, and people will get burned out on the whole social networking system due to overload and will bail from it due to not being able to keep up with it all. Comes back to focus- no one has the time to be all over the map all day long, what value is that? Twitter is an awesome tool for those who have something to share, like ron does.