Comments on: 52 reasons to follow @elreiss on Twitter

By: Eric Reiss

Eric Reiss — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:47:03 +0000

Interesting. About 20 followers directly following publication of this article. No major falloff after a couple of weeks.

However, I tried following 20 random people who were following an internet marketer. 18 followed me immediately. I then unfollowed all of them. Most remained, so this is clearly a good way to game the system.

Of course, saying sensible stuff is still probably the best way. I got 50 followers following a keynote I gave in Lisbon last week.

But to be honest, counting followers still strikes me as a silly waste of time.

By: Ole Gregersen

Ole Gregersen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:20:33 +0000

Yes! Using Twitter as a filter, based on mutual interests really makes sense to me. Other services are fighting to do that to, which might eat some twitter-followers. Still, since I don’t use twitter myself, I can’t see it as being something very valuable

By: Vibor Cipan

Vibor Cipan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:17:33 +0000

I gotta say I’m dying to see how this story with Twitter will play out. I remember we had this discussion while having lunch here in Zagreb, Croatia last year and you claimed the same thing: Twitter will die out and will be replaced with something that will provide us with better contextualization. We are still waiting for this, but maybe, just maybe, Twitter-powered services, “mashups” can be a part of the “contextualization” direction. As I’ve said, let’s wait…

Oh and yes, just one more thing – I AM FOLLOWING YOU @ELREISS. I bet this makes you feel all happy and proud, now I expect your first-born to be named after me

By: Eric Reiss

Eric Reiss — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:11:35 +0000

Good points, Ole. Let’s face it, really big ideas can’t be summarized in 140 characters. So the folks who even suggest that Twitter can replace more thoughtful communications are simply full of shit.

Holding conversations is also difficult, although there are third-party add-ons that make Twitter a little more useful. But I personally think Twitter will die this year and be replaced by something with much better contextualization. In fact, this was one of my predictions for 2010 in a recent interview on Radio Johnny: http://goo.gl/c9Xn

I do use Twitter to cull the blogs. I don’t have time to read them all and I don’t want an RSS feed coming in with the chaff as well as the wheat. So, I follow folks like @IATV whose suggestions for additional reading are generally very good. And what I’m seeing is that the folks who are good editorial advisors also have a meaningful following.

It will be interesting to see how this pans out.

By: Ole Gregersen

Ole Gregersen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:27:41 +0000

Comments are so nineties. Who want’s to comment? I know I don’t. Just like noone comments on my posts. No, these days, everybody want’s to post post post themselves. Today, the comment is another post on twitter.
And the nto the point. I’ve had a look a twitter. It really dosn’t speak to me. Blogs still do. So I won’t follow your tweets, most if them are answers to someone else anyways – in which I don’t feel included. But add up 10 great thoughts (or tweets) and boil them into something substantial and coherent – and I’ll read it.
Your is bigger than mine, but I don’t mind. Like they say over there: Good for you!