Comments on: Follow me here

By: michaeljpastor

michaeljpastor — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:14:37 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation of reading the discussion on Jivespace. I’m humbly honored by it.

By: Bill Grant

Bill Grant — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:16:18 +0000

I really hope people don’t consider the people I follow to be my personal recommendations. Very early on I subscribed to the “Robert Scoble Method” of following people back who follow me and aren’t bots. Was fine for a while until I got over 200 follows, now I am working on decreasing my follow count. (For the record the issue isn’t that I am up to 400 but usually the tweeters I don’t share a common interest in also tweet way too much for me.

I guess one way you can show off your recommendations is by using Favorites, right?

By: Gia Lyons

Gia Lyons — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:53:33 +0000

Juanny, nice logic. I listed every answer I received, and yes, obviously, only those who follow me or who follow someone who retweeted my tweet would respond.

By: Macker

Macker — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:27:41 +0000

so what does it say of gia that she follows me? I’m not sure I’m up to the answer …

By: Juanny Cinco

Juanny Cinco — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:22:25 +0000

The real question is: what does it say about the people that you chose to include as answering the question. Were the these the whole sampling of answers? Or are these the “trusted” source?

My assumption is that these people are all connected, followed by, and following your good self. This blog is somewhat of a recommendation of these people and secondarily your way of validating the actual hypothesis itself. A blog on a self-fulfilling experiment. Not a terribly bad idea.

The truth is actually far more obvious. You recommend those that you publicly share opinion with. The act of following says nothing about them, though potentially, something about you.

By: Troy Jensen

Troy Jensen — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:00:38 +0000

Why you wrote it? Because your a thought exhibitionist. Why think something when you can write it down……Of all the exhibitionist qualities I have, its my thought exhibitionism that I’m the most proud of (and that’s the most welcomed).

On Twitter (sorry, must have missed that tweet) I follow people primarily 1) To be entertained 2) To be informed. If someone can consistently do either or both, they get my vote…..so its kind of a “you’re not incredibly boring” recommendation.