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That's how to use Twitter as a personal marketing tool, but I personally block and mark as spam every person like that who follows me. Here's the real secret t

That's how to use Twitter as a personal marketing tool, but I personally block and mark as spam every person like that who follows me. Here's the real secret to making Twitter Work For You If You're A Real Person: follow people you know and like. Look at who they talk to, follow those people if they seem decent. Talk to the people you follow as if they're your actual friends, because if they're not already eventually they probably will be. You won't get four thousand followers. You might get new opportunities and contacts, and actual meaningful relationships with people. A direct application of this tactic, applied in the days before Twitter and Facebook, managed to get me a wife, so I think I'm doing better than the OP.

jv22222 16y ago
As said YMMV. I already had a wife when I started using Twitter. If I hadn't I might have taken a different approach ;) On a side not I did meet my wife on the internet, but via a community website that I developed many moons ago, The Virtual Irish Pub!
rkudeshi 16y ago
Do you really need to block/spam people just for following you? Now, I ALWAYS thrown down the spam-hammer if someone tries to get my attention through spammy @mentions, but never for just following me, especially if they're semi-legitimate (like the OP).
- semanticist 16y ago
  Someone who auto-follows me based on a keyword search and posts only links is a spammer trying to raise the number of follow-backs they have and possibly promote their own site/content. They don't add any meaningful value to Twitter - even the OP's 'curated links' aren't much value given that sites like HN exist and the actual real people I follow on Twitter will post interesting links themselves.
tomger 16y ago
> follow people you know and like. Look at who they talk to, > follow those people if they seem decent. > Talk to the people you follow as if they're your actual friends < because if they're not already eventually they probably will be. I love how you just wrote down an algorithm for "making friends" :)

jv22222 16y ago

As said YMMV. I already had a wife when I started using Twitter. If I hadn't I might have taken a different approach ;) On a side not I did meet my wife on the internet, but via a community website that I developed many moons ago, The Virtual Irish Pub!

rkudeshi 16y ago

Do you really need to block/spam people just for following you? Now, I ALWAYS thrown down the spam-hammer if someone tries to get my attention through spammy @mentions, but never for just following me, especially if they're semi-legitimate (like the OP).

semanticist 16y ago
Someone who auto-follows me based on a keyword search and posts only links is a spammer trying to raise the number of follow-backs they have and possibly promote their own site/content. They don't add any meaningful value to Twitter - even the OP's 'curated links' aren't much value given that sites like HN exist and the actual real people I follow on Twitter will post interesting links themselves.

tomger 16y ago

> follow people you know and like. Look at who they talk to, > follow those people if they seem decent. > Talk to the people you follow as if they're your actual friends < because if they're not already eventually they probably will be. I love how you just wrote down an algorithm for "making friends" :)