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Follow Those Twitterers That Add Value To Your Profile
With a heavy heart I sat down to undo the damage. Three
hours later I started feeling better. I was now ready to start afresh. My
apologies to those twitterers whose names I deleted from my account.
Have you committed a similar mistake before?
Torrent
of Information
Let me tell you how foolish I was when I first
started tweeting. I regarded twitter as a source of all kinds of information
that I can rely on. Little did I realise what a torrent of information I was
unleashing. At first I enjoyed the voyeurism, lurking from a distance and
observing.
As time went on, however, I realised this was
unsustainable. I simply had too much on my plate, most of which was pretty
useless to me.
For example, I was following politicians, comedians,
soccer commentators and my favourite radio presenters. It was not only
difficult to keep up with all these twitterers but it was also pointless to do so.
Internet
Safety Tips
My blog is
about Internet safety tips and it is aimed at novice computer users and
newcomers to the information super highway. It doesn’t take much to realise
that a football commentator would take no interest in my blog. Even though I
loved what my radio presenters were saying on twitter and I sometimes would
tweet them something, this did not help my blog in any meaningful way.
People did not associate me with my blog.
Of course my intention was to attract more traffic to my
blog. But it remained invisible to those hundreds of people I was following. I
was going about it the wrong way. Something was not right.
Remedial
Action
When I realised that I was going nowhere slowly, I decided
to take immediate remedial action. I started Unfollowing most people who
did not really add value to my blog. It wasn’t easy. I really felt bad doing
it. But I had to act if I wanted to see any positive improvements on my blog.
My new strategy involved following relevant twitter users
who might have something in common with me. Since I am a blogger, it was clear
to me that I should follow fellow bloggers. It is quite intimidating though, to
follow one’s role models in the blogosphere.
Pro
Bloggers Are People
But these pro bloggers are people, and they also need to
connect with other bloggers. In fact, most successful bloggers are more than
willing to help newcomers in cyberspace.
I also make sure that I follow those bloggers who
write about the Internet and social media.
If I am following you on twitter and you are not a
blogger, you don’t write about the Internet or technology, please accept the
possibility that I might unfollow you soon. Sorry about that, but I need
to be focused.
Positive
Response
After I spring-cleaned my twitter account, I started
seeing some positive results. People started connecting with me. Finally, I was
in touch with valuable twitter users.
I also made some changes with regard to my twitter account
name. My domain name replaced my personal name and thus twitter users can now
associate my blog with my domain name and avatar.
“Madalaonline” was now out there with other bloggers,
instead of being buried among politicians and comedians.
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followers and do follow me!
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