I’m going to start off with saying that I‘m probably being an arrogant jerk who expects too much. Yet I’m beginning to feel that being on Twitter is not worth the time I spend on it.
I’ve been experimenting recently, sending messages with a question in to various people. And whilst I didn’t sit down and analyse the figures, I reckon at least 90% of those tweets get unanswered. And why?
Too Little Time
This I can sympathise with, if you only can spare a few minutes on Twitter per day, you wont want to spend it answering my question. Fair play.
Too many Followers
If you have loads of followers, then of course the frequency at which you get asked questions is more, so for you not to respond is acceptable.
Keeping the Timeline Clear
This one annoys me. The egotistical people who want to only tweet quality. I’ve blogged before about my hatred of ‘How to get followers on Twitter’. My mantra has always been to be yourself. If people don’t like it, then tough shit. So don’t not reply to people because it might put a mark on your otherwise brilliant timeline of no doubt high quality tweets.
They Don’t Know Me
Twitter is for networking and meeting others. Not replying because you don’t know me is like going to a Barcamp and talking to no one else.
And lastly….
It really winds me up when I ask a question along the lines of ‘What program do you recommend for xyz?’. I have 700+ followers yet the last time I asked such a question, I got 1 response. Only 1 person out of 700 (although some will be spam accounts no doubt) could be bothered.
