Comments on: How Technical Writers Could Use Twitter http://www.ihearttechnicalwriting.com/twitter/how-technical-writers-could-use-twitter/4545/ Tips, Tools and Templates for Technical Writers Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:28:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ivan Walsh http://www.ihearttechnicalwriting.com/twitter/how-technical-writers-could-use-twitter/4545/comment-page-1/#comment-605 Ivan Walsh Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:06:33 +0000 http://www.ihearttechnicalwriting.com/twitter/how-technical-writers-could-use-twitter/4545/#comment-605 Hi Ben,<br>Emotional blackmail is probably not the best way foundation to an online relationship but some don’t seem to see that. I get the same DMs as you mentioned as it’s hard to imagine why the think others would feel obliged to follow them.<br>Saying that, I auto-follow everyone now and I can’t keep with the manual process. But I use lists to separate those I want to read every day and the rest goes into the twitter stream. Hi Ben,
Emotional blackmail is probably not the best way foundation to an online relationship but some don’t seem to see that. I get the same DMs as you mentioned as it’s hard to imagine why the think others would feel obliged to follow them.
Saying that, I auto-follow everyone now and I can’t keep with the manual process. But I use lists to separate those I want to read every day and the rest goes into the twitter stream.

]]> By: Ben M http://www.ihearttechnicalwriting.com/twitter/how-technical-writers-could-use-twitter/4545/comment-page-1/#comment-603 Ben M Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:29:04 +0000 http://www.ihearttechnicalwriting.com/twitter/how-technical-writers-could-use-twitter/4545/#comment-603 Here's a don't. Don't expect me to follow you just because you followed me. :)<br><br>Someone DMed me once asking for a return follow. I had looked at his tweets when I got notification that he followed me, and I wasn't interested in following him back. I think he dropped me after that. The concept of "return follow" is missing the point of Twitter. Here's a don't. Don't expect me to follow you just because you followed me. :)

Someone DMed me once asking for a return follow. I had looked at his tweets when I got notification that he followed me, and I wasn't interested in following him back. I think he dropped me after that. The concept of “return follow” is missing the point of Twitter.

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