My Twitter Dilemma!
29 Oct
Twitter has been serving as a wonderful resource for me – a place where I can pick through and gather useful information on my varied interests, including largely digital marketing and technology trends and tips; web design and development trends, tip and tutorials; and all that crosses these lines (social media, viral marketing, etc.). The tweeps I have chosen to follow frequently share valuable links and tidbits that help me to further educate myself in the various categories of information I am drawn to.
As I have become more active and educated in these areas though, I have found that I often have questions or ponderings that I think my followers would be able to and interested in weighing in on and would serve as good conversation starters.
As these questions come up, I tweet them – thinking they would attract many tweeps to reply and converse on the topic. But the conversation never takes off. As a matter of fact, tweeps rarely respond unless I message them directly or know them personally. My theory is that one of three things is happening:
- My tweeps use TweetDeck or a similar application since many of my tweeps are what you would call “power users”. In these types of applications, the user typically groups their tweeps by category. I have very varied interests and do not tweet regularly, thus do not likely fit into any one specific category or group. Given this, I would guess I am likely sorted as either misc, other or one specific group that isn’t one I always focus on. Therefore people (or the right people for the tweet) don’t even see my tweets! VERY LIKELY.
- For the super power users, they may be using services that not only groups tweeps, but also auto-filters tweets based on algorithms that determine what their level of interest in such a tweet would be – and I may have been filtered out solely because I don’t religiously tweet on the hour. I even skip a day to two here and there. When I opened my account I was inactive for a while which may have gotten me taken completely off the radar even. ALSO FAIRLY LIKELY.
- People just don’t like me. HOPE NOT : (
Not sure that I have a solution right now either! Hoping that the more I tweet with useful content, the more I will be put back on people’s radar so that some of these conversations can take off and I can build on my knowledge with direct conversation.
I’m at the point where direct conversation is most valuable to me, because in direct conversation you can have conflicting views which can lead to productive debates which generally lead to both paties learning a little something from one another.
I guess for now I’ll have to just use the comment forum on good articles to debate. This is also very useful though and I have beenb doign a lto more of that lately as well.
