Oliver Gassner: Digitale Tage

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  (tags: icommented)

After Dhiraj Gupta supposed that if you had less than 9 updates that people would not follow you back when you followed them on Twitter I gut curious and did a very small poll on why people followed or blocked.

I will investigate some of the findings of this in more depth later.

You are welcome to add your own observations in the comments, of course.

So I asked:

When do you not follow back? When do you block?


And the answers were:

bitnacht I'm looking at their posts. Too frequent? Advertising? Nothing yet? -don't follow- potential conflict? Troll bait? Doesn't feel right?-block

tencate @oliverg I don't follow back if I don't know the person. I do follow a stranger if I like his/her tweets. I block what I consider to be spam about 3 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to oliverg

wettach @oliverg like @AxelSchestag I check the tweets (first page) of a new follower I noticed. If interesting, I'll follow, else wait for their @ about 17 hours ago from web in reply to oliverg

rowi @oliverg: I don't follow back per se. I take a look at the person which follows me and decide if I want to read them, no difference about 17 hours ago from web in reply to oliverg

AlexSchestag @oliverg I do not follow back if I'm not interested in the person's tweets. I have blocked only one person becaus


So as a consequence I'd say:

Following many people just to increase your reach does not work. It will only eventuelly get you blocked more and more often and thus eventuelly banned from twitter with that account.

• State of the Twittersphere - Q4 2008 Report
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• TweetStats :: Graphin' Your Stats
  (tags: twitter tools)

Das web mach enthusiatisch:

17:30h, beim Weihnachtsabendessen

Handy brummt. Weil ich grad mein Adressbuch nicht aktuell habe, könnte es ein guter Bekannter sein.

Ich gehe ran.

Er: "Ja, guten Tag, sie amchen doch carpe.com"

Ich: "Ja." (denke: Oh Gott, ein Anwalt sicher.)

Er: "Ja, ich bin da grad hingesurft und Sie haben da was verlinkt."

Ich: (denke: Ah, doch kein Anwalt) "Ehm, wr sind beim Weihnachtsabendessen. Schreiben Sie mir doch bitte ne Mail."

Er: "Ja, ich hab nur meinen neuen Laptop ausprobiert und... hab ne Frage."

Ich: "Ja, schreiben sie mir bitte ne Mail, Tschüss."

Er: "Tschüss. mach ich."

Noch ist keine da, wahrscheinlich konfiguriert er noch am Mailprogramm ;)