Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?

February 2nd, 2010 admin

There’s an art to tweeting. And, I’m sorry to say, most people just haven’t mastered it. Twitter, for the few uninitiated out there, is a social networking site that limits your posts to 140 characters. You can sign up to “follow” (receive the Tweets) from just about anyone you choose. I initially signed up to follow lots of people — colleagues, journalists, academics, politicians, comedians, friends and family. Over the past months, I’ve been steadily “unfollowing” — if that’s the right term — many of the people I originally signed on behind. Frankly, most people’s tweets are neither interesting nor fun to read — certainly not on a daily or hourly basis. Many, not at all. I say this with no condemnation, since I admit mine are pretty lousy, too. And I have a theory about why. Recently I received …

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Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?


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