It then comes down to a choice of whether their tweets are interesting enough to receive, or whether to exercise the unfollow button!

What I am finding more as well is people whom I have never followed me are using the “@” reply feature to spam me – particularly id I use say ‘coffee’ or ‘followfriday’ in my tweets. These are usually tweetbots and are a real pain…!

Still, I persevere, and enjoy the friends that I have there.

I enjoy retweeting friends’ tweets, and try and add value to my network by highlighting them occasionally.

Adding value to your network is important for me, as it gives people a reason to hang around.

I guess that that is a facet that many Twitterers don’t understand, or don’t wish to acknowledge, because it is easier to just cater to the lowest common denominator: build a huge list of followers and send spam in the hope that someone will click their link!

Have a great week, and thanks for the comment!

Until, that is, those I chose to follow who had a good track record of interaction and engaging suddenly changed their methods and started doing nothing but broadcasting links, quotes and sayings, and even joined the ranks of those who participate in sponsored tweets such as Magpie.

I’ve been doing more unfollowing of late than I thought would be necessary.

I have no problem with the fact that many are on different time zones and can’t possibly see every tweet going on within their stream. I’ve found that even using Tweetdeck and having columns of favorite friends and topics to follow along with (including you) doesn’t always catch all the conversations, so much is missed out on.

Just recently, I turned off notifications on both Twitter accts, because I’ve been bombarded with stupid, spammy DM’s like “vote for me” nonsense from people who have never engaged with me whatsoever but are asking for favors.

I’m disillusioned with Twitter right now, but haven’t completely given up on it. Yet..

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I may not see everybody’s tweets due to time zone differences and schedules etc, but I do take an interest and try to respond!

Constant streams of links make it impossible – which is why I use services such as Topify and Mr Tweet to check people out now BEFORE I follow them.

Must admit that I do share quotes occasionally, but only if I think they’re useful/funny whatever

Thanks Lin, have a great weekend!