Earlier on I tweeted:
It gets me down when you ask someone ‘big’ on Twitter a question, but they don’t respond because you are not also ‘big’.
I feel I should justify this because I don’t think it got taken as I wanted it to be taken.
Firstly, by ‘big’ I did not mean world famous celebs touting millions of followers. There is no way in hell they can reply to everyone and I fully understand this (I don’t even bother following celebs - partly down to this).
What I mean is someone who, in the ‘industry’ I follow (ie Web Design / Dev) are well known, respected, experts in their field. I point blank refuse to name people, but it annoys me when something happens that leads to myself, and no doubt others, ‘atting’ someone on twitter to ask them a question, or to interact with them. Now, if they get hundreds of tweets in a short period of time, I’ve no problem with a generic reply, or nothing. I don’t expect a personal response, and neither does anyone else on Twitter. At least I hope not. However, these people always seem more than happy to reply to other ‘big’ people. These people will often exchange multiple tweets whilst me, with a lot less followers and not such a known name, will just sit and watch.
I don’t want to come across bitter, although I think I may have inadvertently done so, because I’ve come to accept it, and I understand that you can’t always have your own way. But I think it’s unfair that people don’t reply to others because they only have 50 followers, whereas they will always reply to others with a similar number of followers (usually a few thousand plus) just because of who they are.
