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Sometimes you have to follow everyone just to find out who would be interested. What I do is wait a week and then unfollow if they didn’t follow back, since they can’t see me anyway. I will go into “following” and click on the “gear” box on the far right. If it does not list “direct message”, they aren’t following.
Other peoples lists are also useful. Few list bots (unless they are really clueless.) I haven’t tried doing a search for lists yet, but “nautical”, “sailing”, etc. would be good ones.
You can also use search to see what people are talking about–like doing a search for your hometown will tell you what Tweeters are in your area.
Also beware of phishers that are hijacking people’s accounts. I made this blog with all the information I’ve been able to gather on the subject. http://twittertattler.blogspot.com/ Read the blurb on the right if nothing else. So far haven’t found a blog on the subject Twitter SHOULD have put out. Anyway the hackers make your account DM spam and you won’t know. And people will unfollow you because they think you’re a spammer. Also if you get spam from someone who doesn’t look the type, don’t unfollow them, but let them know! Tell them to change their password. Send them to my spamdemon hunter blog, or steal the information and make your own blog. And if you find a better blog on the subject, please let me know so I can put in a link to the site. I just want to stop these creeps that are making others look bad.
I hope this was useful. If you need any help from a “Twitter veteran” contact me at @Scablander. I’ve been doing @Wendell_Howe since April which is a decade in Twitter years, right?
.-= Jeanette Bennett aka Scablander´s last blog ..Tales of Twelve Characters =-.
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Jeanette, thanks for your comment. I had seen your twitter account @Wendell_Howe before and even went to the blog. I need to take some time to go back and read some more.
.-= Daniel´s last blog ..Twitter – To follow or not to follow? =-.
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First, thanks for visiting my blog today, always appreciated and I’m even more delighted you like my special brand of ummm, humor (smile)
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As for twitter, I know exactly what you mean. I have another account, beyond the outdooress, that I went crazy with. I did the mutal follow thing and discovered one day that 80% of my twitter stream was pure garbage.
So, with Outdooress, I decided I’m ONLY following people who converse with others, no @ replies in the stream and I won’t follow them. OR, anyone that uses auto update feeds like twitterfeed. No thanks. My experience is SO much better this way.
I took the no twitter whore pledge
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Rebecca, thanks for your comment. I am glad I am not the only one who thinks like that. Using twitter seems to work better than abusing it. I’d rather be fishing today, but it’s cold and raining. I won’t put up with that for carp
Hope you have better weather!
.-= Daniel´s last blog ..Une poésie en français =-.
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