I sure have been talking alot about Twitter lately, guess I am in the Buzz myself?

I don’t follow my followers as much as I should, but do check out the updates when I can. One of the reasons I don’t, besides the time sucking factor, is because of all the noise.

Granted the idea is to let every one know what your doing at a given point in time, I understand and accept that, but to be honest, I really don’t care who is the latest person to follow you. Am I the only one? I mean really, who cares?

I believe it was today when I hit my home page and it was almost totally filled just with users welcoming their new followers. Why? Where is the value in that? I’d rather hear what you had for Christmas dinner.

Granted, I’ve seen some great tweats, but far to many people are just creating noise. Once again, I don’t care who your latest follower is.

Am I missing something?

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We all know how hot Twitter is right now, so hot in fact that people will follow anyone and anything.

It never ceases to amaze me, how many followers I get (they are following me in hopes I’ll follow them), that have no updates and no profile.

Now, I realize, many folks just want to build a following, so they take on every new comer, often on automatic. It’s almost like it’s a game or a status symbol. I can understand that.

Though I don’t understand why I should or why I would want to follow some one with nothing? No tweets, no profile, no follow. Why would I? There is nothing to follow!

Well unless I want a bigger number on my own Twitter profile. Guess I am odd, there needs to be something in the pot, before I dig in.

If you want a long list of followers, give them something to follow. Just might make a difference.

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Big milestone today, actually I think it was yesterday, I finally peaked over the Twitter limit of 2,000. It took me a while, but I also did not hit it as hard as some Twitter users do.

One thing I did notice, as I took it a little slower than most, I also gained more followers, than I was following, helps to get over the limit.

I am still yet to be convinced that Twitter is a good sales tool. Seems to me it’s more of a relationship builder, as I’ve noticed low results when trying to outright sell something. I’ve had better luck getting followers to read my blog posts.

Any one else find it a selling tool? I’ve heard stories of it bringing in some sales, but I’m not hooked yet.

The last question.. are you over the 2,000 hump?

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Some time back I signed up with Qwitter, the service that alerts you when a follower stops following you. Thing is, I can’t remember the last time I received an alert.

Did Quitter quit on me?

Any one else notice the lack of alerts?

Course, to be honest, I find it easier just to go through my list where I can see who’s following me just as easy, so not like I’ve really missed the service.

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Okay, I’ve had a Twitter account for some time, can’t remember how long actually. I tweeted a few times here and there, but nothing big. I never saw much value in it, or any return. Also in the back of my mind I was thinking, “This might not be a good thing, I get distracted enough as it is”.

Recently, I’ve changed my mind. I should say, I’m going to give it some effort. In talking to a fellow IM’er and noticing what others are saying about Twitter, It seems I never gave it much of a chance. I also learned, it can bring in some traffic and create some sales. That’s enough to get me to take a second look…

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