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Want to see how stupid the follower game on Twitter has gotten? Check out TwitterHit. http://twitter.com/#search...
RetiredTeacherD, Peter Efland, Beth T and 61 other people liked this
When all you care is about how many followers you have this is what happens.
- Robert Scoble
This is a trending topic on Twitter Search. Almost wholly spam.
- Robert Scoble
I have no idea what is going on here... maybe twitter will auto ban anyone mentioning this word.
- Eric Nakagawa
Damn follower-whores!
- MλTT
See, this is why we can't have nice things :p Seriously, Matt is right. When you just do your thing the followers come, why bother growing them artificially?
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Stupid "one word to explain everything ;) "
- Ahmed
The whole followers number thing has gotten out of hand. I'm still more interested in learning from the people I follow.
- Mary Wehrle
Followers are not all that important. It is more rewarding to follow the right people and know how to search twitter for information, as best as you can. Twitter could do with some more metadata for each post.
- Lennart Olsen
Seriously, it should be about HOW MANY followers you have, it should be the QUALITY of the followers you have. Are they REALLY listening?
- Sherra Scott
Lennart: you and I know that, but Twitter is now mainstream and those users don't really participate in Twitter. Look at Oprah. How many Tweets has she done? How many people is she following? Not many. And the new users of Twitter look up to her. So they will emulate her behavior.
- Robert Scoble
For most of tweeps quantity matters not quality. As in their real life I suppose :)
- Jacque
Did a social media marketer just suggest it's about quality and not quantitiy? whaaaa?
- Eric Nakagawa
i wouldn't want all that noise. twitter gives me access to people i want hear from but normally can't. and friend feed lets me talk to them... at a distance
- Marco
Robert: I agree with you completely. Twitter has become like the "Alternative" music on the top 10 songs in iTunes.
- MλTT
Surely targeted Twitter followers is much more effective than random large quantities?!
- PRBristolco.uk
I love Robert Scoble!!!
- sofarsoShawn <Jell-O>
Robert: True true. Having a large number of followers is beneficial of course for getting help with things, but... Maybe if people start using the saved filters on twitter.com they will realize it is better to reach those who are interested instead of everyone who is not.
- Lennart Olsen
Some guy called Peter Parker (PeterParker01_) seems to be using it a lot - does this mean Spiderman gone over to the dark side?!
- Kate
Link farming for the naughties
- Ben
there's a lot of 'chatter' in that search query about TwitterHIT being a virus... anyone else think so too?
- Chris Heath
It's hard to see how twitter will control this spammyness. It's all about quality, not quantity. A large following is useless if you can't get them to ACT.
- Jonathan.Rivera
Definitely!
- Nyan Min
I agree, what ever your uses of twitter, it's about quality. Take an example - there's no point in a feed for local news in Bristol UK having followers outside Bristol, as the news would be irrelevant to them - so why would they want to just amass folllowers?? And what value would someone from California into holistic therapy (for example) get from following that news feed anyway?
- Nigel
Nigel: one reason is that directories like http://www.wefollow.com are using follower numbers to decide on relevancy. That might even be important to someone inside Bristol.
- Robert Scoble
even though i don't get many requests....i enjoying blocking twitter accounts the best! i save the email confirmations i get then if your not interesting BLOCKage
- shayne catrett
Twitter is as much about listening, if not more, than talking. For me out on the frontier a Wyoming, a nobody really, being able to see Robert Scoble's thoughts, as well as those of Chris Brogan, Guy Kawasaki, and so many other big idea guys, is like being welcome in their home to see what they're reading, watching, listening to, doing... heck they even engage in conversation with me...
more...
- shelli johnson
It's rifle vs. shotgun. I'll take a rifle please.
- shelli johnson
Nigel - how about "home town news"? I follow local news from places I used to live, even though I haven't lived there for years.
- Will King
Lol, this is funny! what is the next thing going to be What about promises like: Follow me and I make sure that 1000 follows you
- Asgeir
The nirvana of being followed. In my case, if you want to follow me, knock yourself out. Doesn't mean I have to do anything about it, except block spammers, from which I derive a weird pleasure.
- Rachel Clarke
This is totally stupid, I agree. What is also stupid is all of the fake followers the celebrities have. This might be all the greatest ever episode of Punk'd!
- Bo Lora
I just got more than 2000 followers, now I can also follow more than 2000. And I can tell you it's fun! Of course you can't see all the tweets, but who cares… In this way I have the chance to find interesting people, and when that happens I put their tweet feed in friendfeed. Give it a try...
- Jacob
Even the bots are stupid. No picture, no description and no link in the bio? Huh, why the hell would someone follow that?
- Patrick Moorhead
Jacob: now you know why I find friendfeed fun. You can follow how ever many people you want. And you can even put them into separate lists!
- Robert Scoble
It's a shame when so many people totally miss the real value of twitter.
- Angela
Angela: well, Twitter itself caused that through the systems they built, the actions they took, and the PR they sought. Ask yourself, why is Oprah's account recommended while Leo Laporte's is not? Twitter WANTS you to miss the two-way nature of things. They don't want you to see Twitter as some place you're going to learn something. They are building an entertainment broadcast network. It's too bad, yes, but that's what is. Which is why I'm here instead of there most of the time.
- Robert Scoble
Yuck.
- Louis Gray
Leo Laporte, give me a break - he has one of the most recognise names out there. I know you love being on the Twit show, but come on :)
- Asgeir
@Asgeir Only started following Leo in the past week or so... and only because Friendfeed exposed me to him, his show and some cool conversations.... Thanks again Robert Scoble.
- David Damore
What do you get out of Twitter? It should be worth something. It should always be about quality. Whether you receive it or supply it.
- Wilfredo Guerrero
Do I put twitterhit into search at twitter? When I try to click link posted it does a search of search here on FF. (I am on nambu app for itouch)
- Brytne
from Nambu
I wish that there was a wefollow for friendfeed
- Thomas Hawk
It seems that nobody on Twitter (at least those who use this service) realizes that tools like these go against the idea of social networking, which is to find people of a similar interest.
- Thomas Ward
@Brytne Just click link in Robert's post, should open twitter
- Asgeir
That's what I am saying, it isn't opening anything other than searching the term search here in FF. Guess I don't get to play this game.
- Brytne
from Nambu
@Brytne That is strange - you could also just type TwitterHit into the search field in twitter to see
- Asgeir
@asgeir thanks, think it is the app I am using.
- Brytne
from Nambu
Totally agree. What is the point of the numbers if no one cares who you are?
- Kathryn Martyn
Site declares they aren't a scam, but requires your password for twitter, um no thnx. I dislike all those twitter spinoff sites.
- Brytne
from Nambu
Patrick, she may be following you because you follow her on Twitter and she did an auto-import. If not, she is hoping you will follow back. And notice that on FriendFeed, less than 1 percent did follow her back.
- Louis Gray
I un-followed someone yesterday who used that TwitterHIT crap. Not the kind of person I want to be following anyway, if all they want is more followers.
- Rochelle
@Patrick, @Louis I think Ms Kardashian is following everybody. I don't think it is because she is so interested in what everyone is up to, but rather to promote herself as a model. Is this the right place to do it? I don't see it
- Asgeir
I found the whole "follow" experience on twitter odd to begin with. Case in point, yesterday I declared I needed to find my toenail clippers and lo & behold the LA Clippers started following me. What are they, a basketball team? I don't even know. Definately a fail. These sites are just a scam. (and now I leave this thread for fear of bothering people)
- Brytne
from Nambu
@Brytne That is funny. I think a lot of users use search to find people to follow.
- Asgeir
@asgeir thanks LOL I got quite a chuckle (as did my sports fanatic little brother) out of it. And I get that about the search and have done it myself. But I look at the content of the user before I deem them worthy of a follow.
- Brytne
from Nambu
@Patrick something good can come from connecting with random strangers, look at Twestival. I think it all depends on what you want from it. In an ideal world you should have some sort of plan, but I think for a lot of people they are happy to feel that they have a following
- Asgeir
Patrick B: You can block Kim here on friendfeed. You do know that right?
- Chris Heath
Check out this latest Twit Tip where the Follow Friday institution is questioned...http://ff.im/2Vow3 I then equate Twitter's significance to the hoola hoop http://ff.im/2VoMU
- sofarsoShawn <Jell-O>
I make recommendations for Twitter newbies to make connections. What's happened is that my Twitter stream is clogged now with HUNDREDS of tweeps recommending me solely for the purpose of my recommending them! UGH! I don't do that! Many of these tweeps recommend me over and over and over during the day to try to get my attention. They succeed in irritating me! I am migrating recommendations with comments to static page newbies can refer to anytime.
- Arleen Boyd
Its Kinda vicious circle. When Kevin Rose was no. 1, nobody complained. Now when Ashton Kutcher is people are complaining. When someone will surpass him, he'll start whining too.
- Abhishek Sharma
Yes, however, if any of us pretends to not have some guilt in a desire for followers, I think they are full of it...
- Leif Hansen
There is still value there... you just need to be able to filter out the crap. More importantly this is nothing new. When there were a few thousand people using Email there was no spam... now the majority of email sent is spam. Filters will become more important than any other tool as usage grows.
- Brian Roy
@Brian Roy I see the signs, but I really hope your predictions are wrong
- Asgeir
@scobleizer: users of TwitterHit should measure their success over here: http://epenis.nl
- Nick Wade
#FollowFriday @sofarsoshawn
- sofarsoShawn <Jell-O>
there should be a non profit that we all donate to that maintains a list of twitter users who provide value and we can all follow them and only them. signing up for services like this would get you banned from this list. and we can have our own little private twitter experience. it can even segregate the users into different channels for different topics. so you can subscribe to different lists. actually, that's a terrible idea. just throwing it out there. :-)
- mike
Tools to filter down to just what you want (topics) are just as important as your Social Graph. It isn't context OR Social Graph... it is BOTH.
- Brian Roy
I've half a mind to block everyone that comes up in this search ;-) lol!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Not a scam, but a stupid thing to do to get more followers. Just tweet inteligently and you'll get them "brainiacs"! :\
- Miladin Miladinoski
Robert following your cycle - love, love, love to Facebook, Facebook Sucks, love, love love to Twitter, Twitter Sucks, love, love, love to FriendFeed.....when's the next step?
- Debi Jones
I believe that there are 12 Steps to this.
- Stephen Borchert
Whew after reading through this entire thread, I feel like choking up a hairball.
- Kay Designer
I added my response to your comments over on my home page.
- Kay Designer
I have been getting a few @replies from TwitterHit today, hoping it's a trend that will end soon
- Asgeir
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