Kennedy-Spaien, Dot Com

Not that anyone should care if I follow them on Twitter, but because people are adding me at an alarming rate since PodCamp Boston 2 (and I’m talking about strangers, not people I met and swapped cards with) I’m going to be frank. If I don’t add you back, there’s a reason and it isn’t because you are a horrible person (I actually do follow some horrible people - they can be funny!).

When I get a notice that someone is following me, the first thing I do is go and check their last page or two of tweets. If it is all about their kids, dating, what they ate with no content that is related to social media, new media, web 2.x or something at least tangentially related, I probably will not add you back, although I will check your blog or web site and may still add you if that knocks my socks off.

Now, please understand that I am spoiled. For a long time I followed only a handful of folks and an even smaller subset of those followed me. I was able to maintain a twitterstream with a ridiculously clean signal-to-noise ratio. As a necessary evil I accept that as I follow more people there will be an increase in tweets about sporting events and favorite foods, even the antics of pets!

Rest assured, I want to follow you. I’m sure that by virtue of your being interested in what I have to say, I’d be interested in your thoughts and perceptions. So help me want to follow you, by tweeting those thoughts and perspectives. You can still post about the Patriots or the Celtics, but try to have some meat in there, too!