Tom Graves / Tetradian » microblog http://weblog.tetradian.com Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge Wed, 23 May 2012 13:46:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Twitter, Twitter-rings and my own Twitter policy http://weblog.tetradian.com/2009/05/03/twitter-policy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=twitter-policy http://weblog.tetradian.com/2009/05/03/twitter-policy/#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 12:38:43 +0000 Tom G http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2009/05/03/twitter-twitter-rings-and-my-own-twitter-policy/ I’ve been on Twitter for just over a month, and whilst I can see its advantages, there are some real risks and shortcomings, as Ron Tolido points out on his ‘Slow IT‘ blog. There’s a real power in building a ‘Twitter-ring’ around a single hashtag, such as we did with the ‘#ogadc‘ hashtag at the TOGAF conference – though I have to remember to ‘engage brain before opening mouth’ (or Twittering fingers, in this case), when I ranted just a bit too overtly about the inanities of the money-economy in the midst of what was supposed to be an analysis of a business-architecture study… oops… :-(

But it’s easy for Twitter to get out of control: the maximum volume I can cope with in a day is perhaps 100-150 tweets. So my basic policy on Twitter is this:

  • anyone is welcome to follow what I do, other than the Twitter-spammers (of whom there a fair few already, unfortunately)
  • I can’t afford the time to follow anyone within my specific work-domain who posts more than an average of around 3-5 tweets per day (relevant Twitter-rings excepted)
  • I can’t afford the time to follow anyone outside my immediate work-domain who posts more than an average of around 1-2 tweets per day
  • I can’t afford the time to follow more than a maximum of about fifty people all-up, so on occasion I’ll have to un-follow someone I’m currently following, no matter how valued their tweets may be

I’m aware that shuts out tweets from a few valued colleagues, and a few very good personal friends, but that’s the best I can manage without going even further crazy than I already am. :-) And if you do need to reach me, there’s always email, after all.

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