Getting most out of Twitter
In a follow up to my previous post, here is great response from Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter in response to Marshall Kirkpatrick's article How Twitter's Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It Could Cause Problems)
Many people fall into the trap that you should follow all or most people back out of a sense of politeness or so-called engagement with the community. But the fact is, having more followers does not give you more time in the day (as much as I'd like to sell that... ...but I believe people will generally get more value out of Twitter by dropping the symmetrical relationship expectation and simply curating their following list based on the information and people they want to tune in to.This is very true. Just follow your interest and refine your list of followers from time to time.