If you’ve seen most of the truemors 2 or 3 days earlier, I would like to hire you.

Guy

Having said that. Im absolutely positive that some people love him for just those reasons, so really, it’s ok. Isn’t it?

As for twitter, well i once said a successful twitter account would focus on tight, niche oriented link streams.

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

@Guy – Is the 10-20% figure for Truemors posts or your posts on Twitter? After following you for weeks, it feels like 10-20% of the former. My biggest annoyance was that very few of the stories were new. In fact, I had already seen them two to three days earlier on Digg. It felt like cheap regurgitation from a better source. To Michael’s point, I don’t care about Truemors, I wanted to follow YOU.

I think the concern is we hold certain individuals at a particular level of authority and respect. Scoble, Jason and you each have instant credibility, which is in actuality being cheapened when we see sub-standard twits. I want to relate to my friends over their days, but when I choose to follow you, I’m trying to get insight into some of the industry’s greatest minds. If you want to make this a take it or leave it buffet then you will be sacrificing quality readers.

Guy

Also, I’m not “publishing” Twitter (or my blog) for the audience really… I publish it for myself. So, I see personal blogs/twitters as sort of a take it or leave it thing. to change it would be to change your live.

that being said, maybe Twitter should put a flag that says friends/family/business and folks would sign up for which ones they want.

I hope Guy takes the dual account recommendation. I follow both Danny Sullivan and Search Engine Land (not that either get much activity). The point is, if I like the site, I’ll follow a brand (I LOVE THE JET BLUE twitter account). If an individual is scared no one will subscribe then they need to take a hard look at the product, obviously it isn’t of a certain caliber if no one gives a damn.

Great post!

well said! I agree and have three levels of twitter-contacts. 1) SMS: these people limit their tweets to actual interesting goings on’s. 2) web-only: more active, and less targeted (spam on frequent occasion.) 3) REMOVED: Those that were in group 2 that I booted.

At the end of the day … it’s a “pull medium” so if you don’t like Guy’s tactics, he’d say, “leave me.” You are being kind by giving him feedback because at the end of the day if the majority of his “followers” agree with you, he’ll lose.