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		<title>Twitter Following</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent CNET article on Twitter is wrong. The thesis: follow everyone who follows you. Here&#8217;s my own process when someone follows me on Twitter: Now, I really don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m ruining the Twitter community by not following spammers, people who don&#8217;t share my interest, and addicted Twitter-ers. Also, about the interests thing, CNET-Twitter douche [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A recent CNET article on Twitter <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10138918-2.html">is wrong</a>. The thesis: follow everyone who follows you. Here&#8217;s my own process when someone follows me on Twitter:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16" title="Twitter Follow" src="http://iamawesome.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/picture-4.png" alt="Twitter Follow" width="468" height="647" /></p>
<p>Now, I really don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m ruining the Twitter community by not following spammers, people who don&#8217;t share my interest, and addicted Twitter-ers.</p>
<p>Also, about the interests thing, CNET-Twitter douche says:</p>
<blockquote><p>I simply don&#8217;t see how users get more value out of Twitter by following a select group of people. I&#8217;ve tried it and it was disastrous. More often than not, that grouping is filled with co-workers and friends that probably share many of the same interests. If you ask me, that sounds more like a big, private chat room than a social network where you can communicate and interact with people from all over the world.</p></blockquote>
<p>A.) Few of the people I follow are coworkers or friends. B.) Yes they share the same interests. I don&#8217;t really want to tweet (or read) about American Idol, nuclear physics, or how to repair lawn-mowers. C.) Since when was shared interest strictly determined by geographic location?</p>
<p>Now, you can use Twitter however you want. I won&#8217;t tell you how to live your (Twitter) life, unlike Mr. Reisinger (aka CNET-Twitter douche). Just don&#8217;t be surprised if you tweet every 2 minutes only about your latest blog post on how to tweet or blog and what you ate for breakfast.</p>
<p>[Update 1/14, 10:19am CST — Fixed a few typos on the chart.]</p>
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