Twitterdemics - my network grows
When I started using twitter for real, I set out to follow a small group, only following back if I deemed other persons interesting enough to read. This worked out rather nicely, I followed a few people, tweeted a bit, got a few followers and it got going.
I’m still not sure if I say anything that is interesting, but at least I don’t say enough stupid stuff making people remove me again.
Anyway. I muddle about, blocking the occasional spammer, following back someone who inadvertently follows me… (there is a fine line between modesty and depression induced paranoia). I’m suddenly above 20 followers and 20 I follow. Then something happens. People I follow reply to someone I cannot see. Or rather, to someone I don’t follow. I take a quick look, and follow them. They follow back…
The snowball has started rolling. It is an epidemic! A Twitterdemic! Even being careful about following and followers, I find myself passing 30, 50 and even 70 followers and foll.. fr… subscriptions! Will it ever end? If everyone else (for smaller values of everyone
) are doing this, we’ll end up with a big ball… a metagroup of twitterers - each of who has a small number of strings out in the twitterverse.
Or perhaps it will all collapse like a house of cards?
About this entry
- You’re currently reading “Twitterdemics - my network grows,” an entry on Journal of Tormod Haugen
- Published by: tormodh
- Published at: July 9, 2008 - 14:15 CET
- Category: Technology
- Tags: network, social, twitter, twitterdemic
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