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By: Ian Shepherd

Ian Shepherd — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:49:37 +0000

Here are some suggestions on how to find interesting people to follow on Twitter: Find Interesting People To Follow On Twitter

By: kelly

kelly — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:02:32 +0000

WoW! You have one of the most comprehensive list on what to tweet and they’re Info Gold! Thank you so much for this! Keep it up!!!

By: Sheryl Loch

Sheryl Loch — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:09:40 +0000

I would say the most important thing is to be yourself.
If you tweet something that I would not say in a line of strangers – that’s ok, I would rather know the real you rather than a fake twit!
If someone does not like what I have to say that is fine, don’t follow.
There is no right or wrong way to tweet. Some will love you and well, others won’t.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:04:12 +0000

What a fantastic post. The main point I come away with is to use Twitter with respect. Treat your micro posting as a type of art form. And the reminder that your tweets paint a portrait of who you are was wonderful. Oh, and thanks for the follow! : D

By: Richard Reeve

Richard Reeve — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:12:45 +0000

@moonfly One of my strategies: I do keyword searches in twitter search and feed them into my google reader. As I’m interested in Jungian psychology, its real easy to create a focused keyword search using the terminology of used by folks that reference an understanding of Jung. Then I go follow them and they often follow back.

By: Matt Searles

Matt Searles — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:59:54 +0000

I think I’m much less conscious of my twittering.. Or its like.. there’s a bunch of issues which.. lets call them social media strategy issues.. or maybe social media life issues.. and then those that are specific to twitter.. and so you know.. I’ve meditated on those endlessly.. but when it comes to actually tweeting, I don’t think of them at all. Kind of like when walking I don’t actually think about putting one foot in front of the other, or balance, or any of that.

When I was first on twitter I was more then a little shy and self conscious.. and feeling like my tweeting was kinda bad.. then at a tweet up somewhere.. I met someone who was like “oh yeah, you’re Matt Searles, I follow your tweets!” to which I of course extended my sympathies.. but it turned out he was “a fan” and what he liked was that I’d seem to say anything.. or that I wasn’t holding back or wasn’t sorta.. doing a lot of image management stuff. Or maybe I was just debating with a lot of marketers at the time..

I was at.. I think it was a social media breakfast sometime back.. on twitter.. where Pistachio batted clean up on the presentations.. and of course she was brilliant on it.. I think her point was more or less that twitter is a million things to a million different people..

I think of it like “what is good web design?” Well.. the measure of what good web design is.. kinda depends on your business strategy, or whatever strategy… how you present your self in social media vill depends on the values of your personal brand.. so everything, maybe sorta, comes down to that.

I think of Allan Watts asking “who are you.” Apparently Odysseus was the no man who is every man.. that there burning bush simply said “I am,” while the Zen masters ask us to show us the face we had prior to being born… I’ve read articles trying to tell me that these kinds of questions have nothing to do with personal branding, say in the Harvard Business Review.. lol, but they can’t fool me!

I think the more we embrace the inward mysteries.. the more we see the possibilities. And ultimately.. I think its those mysteries thought ought to define one’s twitter strateg-a-ry

By: Agile Cyborg

Agile Cyborg — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:21:31 +0000

@Snow-
Outside of religious obligation (which I understand but respectfully disengage myself from) those who wish to ‘ultimately profit’ from the type of social interaction discussed here will find little choice but to mainstream themselves by avoiding shades of deviancy.

A certain level of anonymity can be a wonderful way to experience social networking at its fullest and most profound- if one so chooses.

By: Snow Vandemore

Snow Vandemore — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:04:21 +0000

I would preface the “follow everyone back” with one word of caution — I believe the exception would be if the avatar or twitter name contains any type of profanity or pornographic images. I block those.

By: moon_fly

moon_fly — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:54:31 +0000

Thanks for the Twitter tips. I am fairly new to Twitter and oftentimes find some of it’s protocols perplexing.

Do you have a method for finding interesting folks to follow? So far, I have simply let myself browse through other’s followers, but I find it very time consuming. Plus, you can only discern so much from people’s avatars and screen names. I wouldn’t want to just follow everybody and then un-follow, I know enough to know that practice is frowned upon. I have limited time to play with Twitter and feel building a follower/following quite time consuming, although very rewarding and entertaining.

I think Twitter is the best thing to happen for Moonfly in a long time!