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Twitiquette - no thanks
Martin Weller has interesting discussion on use or misuse of Twitter, found via Stephen Downes yesterday - about such things as - someone has 1,000 followers and only follows 30 is that misuse ? Some other talk of rules ?
Rules !!! Twitter !!! ok, bye then - time to find something else to do with 140 characters! I follow people I know, who have supplied a link in their profile and I liked their website/blog, random people who have made me laugh or I go to the public timeline from time to time and pick randomly. Sometimes I might only follow people for a day or a week (or even an hour if they provide 16 billion updates over that hour). One of the people following me is following around 28,000 - I’m guessing advertising / PR - so what and why not - who cares !
20/03/2008 at 04:57 pm
Hi, you are right in that there are no ‘rules’ but that doesn’t mean a community doesn’t develop behavioural norms. For instance, spam doesn’t break any formal rules of email, but it does break the norms of acceptable behaviour. Anyway, I really wasn’t trying to say there should be a set of rules, I was just interested in the different ways people approach Twitter. I’ve done a more considered follow up at http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2008/03/more-twitter-ty.html
Martin
20/03/2008 at 08:50 pm
Thanks Martin, your comments are very thought provoking - I agree that a group of twitterers - your followers and those you follow does have a sort of sense of community - I don’t know about acceptable behaviour.
It hadn’t occurred to me the idea that someone in your ‘community’ could be offended by something else said or how someone behaved - to be honest I like the randomness so just do it (sorry Nike)and not worry, if someone doesn’t like something they can instantly tell everyone or DM them personally.