What a great idea Colin. It is difficult for me too in twitter to keep up. Sometimes I guess I found a good balance in following back a few hundred people that have valuable things to say.
But I question your solution. How are you going to keep up with potentially hundreds of longer blog posts if twitter at 140 characters is an issue? Seems like even more info that you'll have to wade through.
Joel Mark Witt
Colin Devroe
· 10 months ago
Joel: Good question. I check my feed reader every few days and, for the lack of a better term, skim through the posts pretty quickly. I don't just read the headlines, I read a bit more than that. But I do see every single post and look at it to see if it interests me. I then either read it then and there or star it for later.
So while it will increase the number of feeds I have loaded up (I gained over 250 unread with this little experiment) - I should be able to get through them relatively quickly and I may even end up finding some things I would have never seen otherwise. I am hoping, if nothing else, this extends the walls of my echo chamber a little bit.
Miiitch
· 10 months ago
Hm, what an interesting idea. I've had the same problem. I'm struggling to keep the number of people I follow under 100. I've somehow managed to keep my friends list on Viddler relatively small, so I only receive emails about videos from people whose videos I actually care about. Perhaps I should go through the list of people I'm following and cut it down a bit, because as much as I like to read every tweet, I can't keep up any more.
chris runoff
· 10 months ago
I think this is something that most people struggle with, whether with Twitter or blogs.
My very loose rules of thumb for following goes something like this. 1. Friends and people I've met IRL. 2. People or shows with content I'm interested in. 3. People with ideas or projects I want to support.
I'm interested to know how this works out for you. If nothing else, you've inspired me to refocus more energy into my blog. I've struggled with it thus far and this is a very motivating reason to start putting more effort into my content. Thanks!
Colin Devroe
· 10 months ago
Miiitch: Yeah. It is a struggle to keep a balance.
Chris Runoff: My reading your blog is a motivation? Awesome!
Derek Jay Steen
· 10 months ago
Twitter is where I get 98% of my news, links, videos, etc.
TweetDeck has made the experience so amazing! I'm able to read the majority of the tweets I receive from the 143 (at writing) people I follow. A good percentage of them tweet rarely or not at all, but then some tweet excessively; I guess there's a balance.
If I were to also read/watch the news, subscribe to blogs, and receive e-mail updates from people, I'd never have time to eat, sleep, and tweet. ;) I respect the people that manage to do that though.
Thanks for subscribing to my blog, Colin. :)
Jesse J. Anderson
· 10 months ago
Very cool idea! I had to limit the people I follow on twitter too for the same reason. I probably still follow too many people right now, I'm always afraid I'm going to miss an important tweet from one of my 'real' friends. ;)
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But I question your solution. How are you going to keep up with potentially hundreds of longer blog posts if twitter at 140 characters is an issue? Seems like even more info that you'll have to wade through.
Joel Mark Witt
So while it will increase the number of feeds I have loaded up (I gained over 250 unread with this little experiment) - I should be able to get through them relatively quickly and I may even end up finding some things I would have never seen otherwise. I am hoping, if nothing else, this extends the walls of my echo chamber a little bit.
My very loose rules of thumb for following goes something like this. 1. Friends and people I've met IRL. 2. People or shows with content I'm interested in. 3. People with ideas or projects I want to support.
I'm interested to know how this works out for you. If nothing else, you've inspired me to refocus more energy into my blog. I've struggled with it thus far and this is a very motivating reason to start putting more effort into my content. Thanks!
Chris Runoff: My reading your blog is a motivation? Awesome!
TweetDeck has made the experience so amazing! I'm able to read the majority of the tweets I receive from the 143 (at writing) people I follow. A good percentage of them tweet rarely or not at all, but then some tweet excessively; I guess there's a balance.
If I were to also read/watch the news, subscribe to blogs, and receive e-mail updates from people, I'd never have time to eat, sleep, and tweet. ;) I respect the people that manage to do that though.
Thanks for subscribing to my blog, Colin. :)