Comments on: How to Twitter responsibly

By: Max Holloway

Max Holloway — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:29:12 +0000

Excellent piece, Matt; difficult to argue with. I’d just mention two things:

1 Stacked tweets where someone loads 10 or more is BAD… Too easy to miss a good tweet lurking in a sequence

2 Twitter already deems what is not acceptable. The magnificent ‘transparency’ of Twitter makes it unreasonable to cite further taboo subjects. The decision to follow/unfollow is a choice which remains based on personal criteria

By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:13:40 +0000

Excellent points Max, thanks for contributing. Sorry for the delay in approving your comment: Akismet had marked it as spam – I guess it was the “makequickmillions.com” that did it ;-)

By: myows

myows — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:16:16 +0000

Hi Matt

Nice to-the-point article.

May i also suggest, for upcoming posts, something along the lines of:

-dont ignore peeps who @message you

-dont follow thousands of innocent peeps only to advertise your useless pyramid scheme or life-coaching services.

-don’t auto-DM those “thx for following – check out makequickmillions.com ”

-dont tweet about taboo subjects – god, sex, politics and religion should be kept out of the twitter stream…

I tend to unfollow all of the above.

By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:20:49 +0000

Hey Alice, yes that’s a good idea, definitely one to re-post before the next #followfriday! :-)

By: Alice Faucher

Alice Faucher — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:07:45 +0000

Yep – I totally agree. All good points that are well made, Matt.

Regarding the current #followfriday madness, it may well help if you repost your tweet to this topic on Thu/Fri for maximum impact.