Comments on: Starting a Twitter Account from Scratch

By: Why Your Social Media Strategy Isn’t Working

Why Your Social Media Strategy Isn’t Working — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:42:09 +0000

[...] You’re following too many people [...]

By: Why Your Social Media Strategy Isn’t Working - Blog by Jon Bishop

Why Your Social Media Strategy Isn’t Working - Blog by Jon Bishop — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:14:37 +0000

[...] You’re following too many people [...]

By: Rebecca Beasley

Rebecca Beasley — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:30:59 +0000

Right on the money. It’s the relationships you gain from using twitter that build the business. But you have to do it for the sake of the relationship and not for the money or it doesn’t count. You’re blessed far more for giving without expectations.

By: DiurarieRah

DiurarieRah — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:39:08 +0000

Nice post thanks for the information, keep it.
Greetings!

By: Jon Bishop

Jon Bishop — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:45:57 +0000

@Michelle
Thanks for the kind words.

Ping.fm is a great service, however, it does take away from the twitter experience a bit if used too much. For example there are a lot of people who will post to Twitter, Plurk, Rejaw, Identi.ca and Kwippy all at the same time and they never check responses to that post across all of the sites.

The idea is to create relationships and to do that we need to get away from the traditional methods of spray and pray.

By: michelle

michelle — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:46:48 +0000

Great to see a simple, easy to understand guide that also emphasizes the “social” aspects – you know, manners and what not. You might also be interested in trying out ping.fm. This is a service I read about last week (in beta test) that allows you to log in one place and post updates to facebook, myspace, twitter and other social networking sites all at once.

By: Emma Best

Emma Best — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:35:31 +0000

Nice step by step guide, thanks Jon. I agree with all your approach and not a mass approach in the beginning. As it does reflect very badly on the twitterer (?) and their site. It’s a long slow process, but I’m glad in any case, because it’s a great way to network and to find like minded people – Emma

By: Jon Bishop

Jon Bishop — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:08:46 +0000

@Warren,
I covered some other services for finding people on Twitter on another post. This is a system I have put in place that has proven successful every time thus far.

Those other services are great for finding new people but sometimes new tweeps get trigger happy and will add too many people at once. My system is aimed at slowing the process down and forcing a more thoughtful approach.

By: Warren Sukernek

Warren Sukernek — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:43:09 +0000

Good advice for Twitter newbies! I’d also recommend http://Twellow.com and http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/ which are great resources for finding people on Twitter.I’ve written quite a bit about this subject on my blog and also catalog a list of great Twitter 101 advice on http://delicious.com/wss23/twitter101