How To Use Twitter

I've begun posting to Twitter consistently (you can follow our PointAbout account here, or my personal DROdio account here) and I just had a fellow Realtor email me saying, "I noticed you're now following me on Twitter. As I just signed up for it, I'm feeling a bit like the proverbial dog who caught the car. How best to use it is my question to you. Pleased with any feedback you can provide."

So in the spirit of answering emails with blog postings, I've found a posting created by Creative Commons called "Twitter in Plain English" that really does a wonderful job of explaining why you should care about Twitter, and how to use it.

I've begun posting to Twitter consistently (you can follow our PointAbout account here, or my personal DROdio account here) and I just had a fellow Realtor email me saying, "I noticed you're now following me on Twitter. As I just signed up for it, I'm feeling a bit like the proverbial dog who caught the car. How best to use it is my question to you. Pleased with any feedback you can provide." So in the spirit of answering emails with blog postings, I've found a posting created by Creative Commons called "Twitter in Plain English" that really does a wonderful job of explaining why you should care about Twitter, and how to use it.

Twitter Nuke: Unfollow Everyone

My Twitter list, with 4,320 following and 4,884 followers, has gotten to the point where it's just noise, especially with all the spam robots out there.  I can't follow what real people say anymore, and Twitter has lost its intimacy for me.  Just as bad, I'm afraid to contact people via Twitter because I'm worried that I won't see their responses, even though I have auto notifiers set up, there's just too much noise.

So I'm going to take a drastic step:  I'm going to un-follow everyone.

Then, I'll re-follow the people I really want to follow over the upcoming days.

So if you're one of the people I un-followed, first off, I apologize for the rude behavior, and chances are if you care enough to notice, I'll probably be following you again soon.  And if I'm not, just ping me, because I probably just didn't realize I nuked you (again, so sorry).

Thanks to CloudAppers and UnfollowEveryone for creating a script that allowed me to nuke my twitter account.

My Twitter list, with 4,320 following and 4,884 followers, has gotten to the point where it's just noise, especially with all the spam robots out there.  I can't follow what real people say anymore, and Twitter has lost its intimacy for me.  Just as bad, I'm afraid to contact people via Twitter because I'm worried that I won't see their responses, even though I have auto notifiers set up, there's just too much noise. So I'm going to take a drastic step:  I'm going to un-follow everyone. Then, I'll re-follow the people I really want to follow over the upcoming days. So if you're one of the people I un-followed, first off, I apologize for the rude behavior, and chances are if you care enough to notice, I'll probably be following you again soon.  And if I'm not, just ping me, because I probably just didn't realize I nuked you (again, so sorry). Thanks to CloudAppers and UnfollowEveryone for creating a script that allowed me to nuke my twitter account. Here's a post I found by Loic Le Meur doing the same thing while I was researching how to go about unfollowing everyone.