Repost: How I Feel About Twitter Noise
Lately, before going to bed I’ve spent some time drafting tweets for future use. Ever since purchasing the Birdhouse app I’ve been a compelled to reduce the random noise on my twitter feed and publish more concise and interesting “tweets” in an effort to not be one of those people that even tweet when they fart.
I’m doing this mostly because of my experiences when reading what others around me have published. I find that when I’m reading a tweet that I find interesting or funny, I’m more likely to follow that person in hopes that they have more interesting or funny things to tweet in the future. I follow them based on the content they are publishing, not the amount of times they publish.
For a while I was following celebrities like @THE_REAL_SHAQ and @rainnwilson but quickly got bored with them because they published entirely too much and what they published was just noise. They tweeted just to tweet. The same goes for some non-celebrities that I’ve chosen to follow and then quickly abandoned.
I’m not saying that twitter users should post only meaningful tweets. What I’m saying more or less is that twitter users should try to understand what constitutes as tweeting too much. I don’t want to hear that you are going to the gynecologist and I’m pretty sure that no one around you want’s to hear that either, so think before you tweet.
In the end it comes down to this: I love twitter, and all I’m trying to do is make sure I’m not annoying my followers by posting pointless noise every fifteen minutes and you should too. Think about your followers before you post your 50th tweet of the morning because you might be one tweet away from being un-followed.
Remember to tweet with measure and to have your pet spayed or neutered. You can find me on twitter @jespinoza.
