DISQUS

Twitter is, for me, about connecting with people & building relationships. I haven't read any of Godin's books but he seems more interested in spreading & explaining his ideas than developing relationships. Hence, Twitter wouldn't be an ideal forum for him, a blog where he can write whatever he wants to write and not have to respond to any criticism seems to work better for him.

For the people who complain that Twitter is all about self-promotion, I can say I agreed with you the first two months I was on Twitter. Every Tweet I got was someone announcing a new blog post. So, I found new people to follow who weren't so much interested in building their "personal brand" (ugh) and more on communication.

Bottom line, you control who you follow and if you don't like what the people you are following are saying, you need to find different people to dialog with. It doesn't even take that much work, just find a couple of people who you think are interesting and see who THEY follow. Doing so completely changed my experience of Twitter and, personally, I found the most engagement from the people with fewer numbers of followers (500 or less). They are much more likely to carry on a conversation & want to get to know you than people with tens of thousands of followers. Then, as both of our follower numbers grew, we still had our original relationship that started when we were all just small fish in a big pond. These are lasting relationships, not just one-way conversations.

I wasn't fast enough to get on the list! Let me know if there is a cancellation or if there is room at the table for one more! Thanks!

Liz
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The Dark Knight will go down as the most overrated movie EVER!