I mean, if I followed every single person who followed me, I’d never actually READ twitter, because there’d be too much noise to make the signal viable. (Or, since I use Brizzly, I’d have almost all of those people secretly muted, which seems… disingenuous.)

Some genius determined that a human is only wired to care about roughly 150 other people, max — not-coincidentally, that’s roughly the size of your basic village. Anytime I see someone following some multiple of 150, there’s a faint whiff of bovine excrement.

Me? I’m just being as honest I can — not everyone who follows me is someone I have the bandwidth (or, in honesty, will) to care about in return.
.-= Doyce´s last blog ..The one where he was kind of a dick about Twitter =-.

I love #followfriday, because I genuinely do find interesting people at which to gander — but so often it’s either done:

a) Without context (#ff @scrooby @momo @tonypoopers @blueballs @johnnycakes!)

or

b) Is done as just a handshake back and forth Friday after Friday — which is nice and all, but certainly reaches a minimum of value after a couple-few weeks.

– c.
.-= Chuck´s last blog ..I Convene The Council Of Sages And Scholars: Speak To Me, Wise Ones, About iPads And e-Readers =-.

See, the reason I love the Twitters is *because* it doesn’t demand reciprocity — thus, those that treat it that way are breaking its intent.

– c.
.-= Chuck´s last blog ..I Convene The Council Of Sages And Scholars: Speak To Me, Wise Ones, About iPads And e-Readers =-.