I have more than one Twitter account that I keep segregated according to the niche. I like to keep things separate like that because I don’t think my generic blogger followers are going to be all that excited about seeing tweets related to things they could care less about.
I like to follow the more popular people in each of my niches. But, sometimes I have to unfollow people. Some of these guys are just too damn trigger happy with their Tweets. Even some of the really popular people that you would think should know better. They Tweet out so much that their Tweets become like noise to me. It basically ruins the usefulness of the tool.
I actually get pissed off at these people because they are taking valuable time away from me. I am wasting my time sorting through their Twitter gibberish trying to find the little nuggets of useful links that they might have put out there.
I could care less about where they are eating lunch at the moment. I doubt that 99% of their followers give a shit either. Nobody friggin cares about where you eat. Nobody cares about your cat. Nobody wants to read the personal conversation you are having with another one of your other friends on Twitter. You might think people like that. I can assure you that they don’t.
Am I in the minority on this or what?
Do you guys really care about any of the personal crap that you see other people putting out on Twitter? I sure as hell don’t. Save that personal crap for Facebook. Isn’t that what Facebook is for? How about text messaging? If you are such good buddies then you probably have each other’s cell numbers. I don’t know why they don’t just text message that person in private instead of doing it in front of everyone on Twitter. I think that is very rude of them to do that. And, they aren’t going to be influencing me as a result because I am going to unfollow them.
There is only so much time a person has in their day. If you want to be an influencer on Twitter, then I suggest you respect the fact that everyone who follows you is going to read what you post. How about posting information related to the reasons why we followed you? We didn’t follow you because we are interested in your fashion. We didn’t follow you because we want to listen in on your small talk with your friends on Twitter. We follow you to learn from you. We want to read what you are reading. We want to see things from your perspective.
We honestly don’t care about your vacation or your wife or your husband. Sorry for the dose of reality. That is the truth. It’s not really that we are insensitive. It is just that there is only so much time we have in our days and we simply cannot keep up with every personal detail in everyone else’s life if we expect to stay on top of our game. Facebook is the place for personal stuff. Twitter should be for sharing useful thoughts or useful links with people who would be interested in them.
We are willing to put up with some occasional small talk and off topic remarks as long as it is occasional. But, I find that the importance of what a person has to say is directly proportional to the frequency that they say it on Twitter.
