Comments on: Who's On Twitter? What Happens When You "Shake Hands" With Your Followers?

By: Peg Corwin

Peg Corwin — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:47:29 +0000

Marjanne, With the autofollow software out there, it is difficult to get to know followers, and since people follow indiscriminately, I’m not sure one should or could get to know everyone. When you sit down and look at all the profiles and websites of followers, however, it is quite interesting. You do discover interesting people that you want to know better.

By: Marjanne Pearson

Marjanne Pearson — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:00:00 +0000

What a great post! I’m new to Twitter (75 days & counting), and I have made some great relationships so far. I try to make a connection w/ each person I follow, but it’s much harder with followers.

I’d really like to see one of the Twitter apps provide a better vehicle to do this kind of research. TwitTangle is good for setting up groups, as is Twitter Karma. But nothing pulls it together in a ways that facilitates relationship-building.

By: Peg Corwin

Peg Corwin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:27:28 +0000

Thanks for your blog comment, Jade. To determine the regional breakdown, I went to each Twitter profile and wrote down the city or country listed.

By: Jade

Jade — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:29:29 +0000

Can you let me know how you worked out your regional break down please?

By: Dat

Dat — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:40:31 +0000

Fantastic post! You are a scientist. Thank you for this breakdown. Inspires me to direct message all my followers. I’ve been on twitter since dec.18th (today mar.4th), and it’s been an amazing ride since then trying to wrap my mind around the constant questions in my head of “What the heck is this thing” or “What are these buttons and how do I do this or that?” or “How can this be beneficial for my business or hobby?” or “How do I reach more people without spamming people (because that is my natural inclination to do more than one on one)?” The results are amazing so far. Have three twitter accounts: @CDNpayprocess (business- Canadian Payment Processing), @restaurantjobs (secondary site- hospitality blog and job search), and @dattrax (hobby- DJing house music). Spend 5mins here or there. Probably an hour each day and probably 2hrs/day the first two weeks I was on during the holidays. About 1100 followers total. Had almost a dozen guest blog posts on my sites from people in related industries that were met on twitter. Another dozen posts promised. Got over 2400 downloads of my mixed music that I put almost 400 links up for people who like the same music to share. Testing the viability of a DJ Site coming in mid-spring. Drove over 300 new visitors to my main business. This traffic could not be monetized because my target group is Canadian Business Owners, but still facinating how twitter can bring traffic. Over 700 people from twitter to hospitality blog. Learning how each twitter account has a different audienc, and the slightly different ways to communicate with them.

By: Alexis

Alexis — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:00:48 +0000

Great article. I’m an artist who’s interested in social networking. You just started following me in Twitter, so I wanted to know a little more about you.

By: Dawn Thomas

Dawn Thomas — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:57:24 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful article! It is so true! I am fairly new to Twitter, but can definitely tell the difference between someone who has an automated response and someone who actually takes the time to say, “Hello!”

By: Judd

Judd — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:39:08 +0000

That must have been a busy couple of days.