{"id":2991,"date":"2009-12-30T05:16:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T13:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2009-12-30T05:16:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T13:16:56","slug":"why-unfollowing-everyone-is-un-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/12\/30\/why-unfollowing-everyone-is-un-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why unfollowing everyone is un-Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-2991\">\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about this for a while, and I think @ev is wrong; I think unfollowing almost everyone is a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you only follow a few people; why should a lot of people follow you? Because you tweet good content? That turns Twitter into a broadcast medium, which I think would destroy the communication aspect of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy would turn a large number of Twitter members into listeners, with very few people to listen to them; it would, however, make the &#8220;rockstar&#8221; tweeters even more apparent and obvious since the public timeline would be crammed with their content. Twitter shouldn&#8217;t be about rockstars (or tweetstars).<\/p>\n<p>I know following a lot of people creates a noisy timeline, but that&#8217;s what tools like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweetdeck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TweetDeck<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/seesmic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seesmic Desktop<\/a> are designed to help manage. And if you have that many followers, you probably spend a fair bit of time on Twitter anyway&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter isn&#8217;t about having just a few friends and then broadcasting to lots of people, its about communication and that&#8217;s a two-way street.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-2991\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 2991);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-2991\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-2991\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about this for a while, and I think @ev is wrong; I think unfollowing almost everyone is a bad idea. Let&#8217;s say you only follow a few people; why should a lot of people follow you? Because you tweet good content? That turns Twitter into a broadcast medium, which I think would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[466],"tags":[648,2379,194],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking-computer","tag-seesmic","tag-tweetdeck","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-Mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}