Comments on: Why I Will Eventually Unfollow You.

By: human3rror

human3rror — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:05:23 +0000

i guess i fail.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:20:15 +0000

#3 is my fave. i've become more selective on my twitter follows.i really do not appreciate some of the marketing morons. now that my follow/following ratio is closer, i'm nearly following 1k.but, i'm weeding out using friendorfollow.com

By: Mike Gorski

Mike Gorski — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:27:25 +0000

I generally follow those who follow me. But I also cull who I'm following regularly. So my ratio of following to followers peaks near 1:1 and then drops to 1:2 after a cull. I look through the list of people I'm following and check certain people's tweet streams – if it seems uninteresting I unfollow them.

I find your objection to swearing funny. Mainly because I swear all the time. And having spent part of my career as a writer I know the thesaurus won't help on that front.

I'm open to all viewpoints regardless of the person's poor use of language. There are plenty of worse twitterers out there that don't contain any swearing. Of course, if all you're getting is potty language out of someone you are following – drop them. But I'd also drop a person who only tweets passages from The Bible all the time.

Twitter is all about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts (tweets). I couldn't judge anyone on a single tweet (or even 10 tweets).

Thanks for making me think about this.

By: Adrienne_

Adrienne_ — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:18:21 +0000

Enjoying the post and comments, Justin. But it cracks me up that all your replies are in video form. I would rather read than watch/listen. Of course, now I know that you were avoiding your Greek studying to read comments

By: Justin Wise

Justin Wise — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:56:32 +0000

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By: Justin Wise

Justin Wise — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:55:39 +0000

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By: Justin Wise

Justin Wise — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:53:39 +0000

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By: Sam Mahlstadt

Sam Mahlstadt — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:39:04 +0000

I still remain selective because I am in between computers, so my twitting is done exclusively on the phone. I find ur humorous that the term celebrity is used on who 99% of people don’t know, just us in ministry. Maybe they are minislebrities…I will be opening up to all those who follow when I can get tweetdeck or peoplebrowsr. Good thoughts.

By: mariah

mariah — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:21:53 +0000

I'm glad I don't twitter because this sounds like a headache, haha.

By: Ross_Hesseltine

Ross_Hesseltine — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:38:00 +0000

my approach to twitter tends to be, if i find myself doing something that I want to tell people, then I post it…prime example- saturday night when i diminished the top part of my finger to shreds, i took a picture and posted it. I also find myself approaching Twitter to find out what is working in ministries. Some of the people I follow have amazing blogs, yours included Justin, that I can grab info from and following them on Twitter helps me to visit those blogs. I follow a few celebs; Tim Stevens and Dave Ferguson, and Mark Batterson. I enjoy them for the most part, due in part, to their general openness. Dropping the UNFOLLOW hammer would be something new for me, as I am just a week into it. But I think I would drop if like Steve said they drop the 18 million tweets. But for right now, I am only following those that I know and a few "celebs", but too will change