The Twoise

I like Twitter. It’s a handy app. Keeps you in touch with people, keeps you up-to-date, good marketing tool, who could ask for more?

BUT…

I like following a lot of people. Around 112 as of writing this. OK, I know that relatively that’s not a lot of people to follow. I know there are people following well over a 1000 people. But that’s just it. I cant have a conversation with more than a 1000 people. And I’m not even talking about conversing simultaneously here.

My problem is that I’m actually losing out on conversations with people I know because of all the damn twoise!

What! You don’t know what twoise is? How could you? I just invented it.

Twitter + Noise = Twoise

Twoise is the static, random tweets you get from once interesting people you chose to follow but now you realise they serve no purpose. Twoise is the really interesting person you met at a conference whose tweets consist of nothing more than good morning, good night and all other greeting throughout the day. Twoise is @guykawasaki a.k.a. Spamasaki posting link after link to a site with a crazy story and also a link to alltop.

You get the basic idea, yes?

Now to be perfectly clear, I’m NOT blaming Twitter or any user for this. I understand that with Twitter a person can say whatever they want to and you have a choice to listen or not. For me Twitter is about conversations and from now on it going to stay that way. I’m not saying I’ll never follow more than 100 people again. Just that I will never follow 1000 people.

Sorry @guykawasaki for the dig. You’re a cool dude but I’m unfollowing you!

1. April 1st, 2009
   Vishal Modh says:

   hahahha…. nice one

2. April 2nd, 2009
   jinesh says:

   some notes –
   1. i’ve started adding people on twitter just to get notified when they make a new post, instead of using RSS to get updates
   2. aggressively unfollow people if you don’t notice yourself being aware of their conversations/tweets for more than a week
   3. keep a limit of max 100 people to follow, its like giving away your virginity a 100 times and each one has to be special (can’t escape my metaphors!)

3. January 11th, 2011
   armeen says:

   Totally agree on @guykawasaki. There are tweets every second. And he never seems to sleep. Like this post. I agree that at some point twitter starts intruding in real mind-space. Not good. Off-topic: I like this site