Comments on: Qwitter – To Qwit or Not To Qwit?

By: Angellaa

Angellaa — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:40:42 +0000

Hmm, very cognitive post.
Is this theme good unough for the Digg?

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:52:18 +0000

I have lost a couple of followers since I started my twitter surge towards the beginning of the month.

The only problem I see with Qwitter is people will over compensate when they loose followers and end up losing even more because they have become “timid” in their posting styl style.

The only way that I’ve changed is that I do not swear as much as I used to, as that will put others off. In fact I don’t think I’ve uttered a single swear word on twitter in anger or in jest.

By: Graham Dryden

Graham Dryden — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:10:14 +0000

First I always follow every one back as a courtesy. People who don’t, they baffle me, they seem arrogant. But it’s a free world… So Qwitter is essential now that Twitter has these chokes on. After I hit 2000 friends, they blocked me. I could only attract followers and not friend them back. So every time Qwitter told me someone quit me, I unfollowed them, and added a new friend or friended someone back. Once I got to 2000 followers, they unblocked me but now they block me if I get 190 friends in excess of my followers. So Qwitter is crucial. Qwitter told me some gay women dropped me after I twitvoted for McCain so now I am more careful about being publicly outspoken about some sensitive issues. Another must have tool is Mytweeple to find people who are inactive or don’t follow me back. Off with their heads!

By: Dawn Goldberg

Dawn Goldberg — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:06:34 +0000

I don’t use Qwitter because I simply don’t have the time. I even forget to pay attention to my number of followers. I guess that makes me a bad Twitter user.

I tweet because I like to connect. Not everyone is going to get me, and I’m fine with that. Those who want to stay – well, hey, thank you, and let’s meet up soon. Those who don’t… we’re both probably better off.

I also don’t do that whole “if you don’t follow me, I’m not going to follow you…” As above, not everyone gets me. And I’m not going to get everyone else. Just because someone follows me does not obligate me to follow him/her.

My wish would be for people to follow those whom they want because there’s a real connection, not because they’re trying to get their numbers up.

All that being said, Jack rocks!

By: Pete Moring

Pete Moring — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:08:03 +0000

Well Jack. I don’t use Qwitter because I don’t go Twitter-Hunting in the first place. Almost all have followed me, and I usually follow back.
I know by my numbers that many fall away, but at the same time people just keep on following.

I don’t know why it would bother anyone WHO left. Unless it was a specific ‘Twitter-Friend’, but then you’d soon realise that surely?

Pete.

By: Cheryl A. Harless

Cheryl A. Harless — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:03:34 +0000

I don’t use Qwitter and never will – let me tell you why from the perpective of someone who stopped following another person that I actually know and like very much. I was new to twitter and only following a handful of people to start with. But she just tweeted too often and I would have nothing but her tweets for pages with only one or two people’s individual posts thrown in. I was getting irritated with her and thought why should something like twitter harm a friendship when all I have to do is stop following her? – problem solved. I just hope she didn’t use Qwitter and get her feelings hurt thinking I didn’t like her anymore! Maybe I will follow her again now that I am following a lot more people… hmmmmm

By: Stuart Robertson

Stuart Robertson — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:33:02 +0000

Look at all those smileys! What was I thinking???

By: Stuart Robertson

Stuart Robertson — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:31:47 +0000

My only issue with Qwitter is that it doesn’t work all that reliably. It’s a pretty easy follow/unfollow system for me, and there’s no heartbreak at all.

If someone is interested in what I’ve got to say and follows me, I’ll return the favour and follow them in turn. Maybe they have something interesting to say too.

If someone unfollows me, that’s cool – they get unfollowed too and life goes on.

2 Differences between my approach and a lot of other Twitter users.

#1 – I have no interest in “optimizing” my Twitter ratio / score / rank / etc. I disagree with the basic premise that lots of followers and relatively few people you listen to somehow makes you a “better” Twitter user.

#2 – I’ve written a bunch of script (some not public yet) that give me a better Twitter experience and give me more options than just Follow / Don’t Follow.

I wrote a small tool called Shadow that lets me quietly follow people’s updates without appearing on their followers list. So if I really want to follow Wil Weaton’s updates but he can’t figure out how to follow more than like… 12 people himself… then I can put him on the Shadow list.

http://www.designmeme.com/shadow-twitter/

So I can continue with my always-follow, always-unfollow approach to Twitter and leave special cases for special tools.

By: Julie Bonn Heath

Julie Bonn Heath — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:14:06 +0000

I won’t Qwitter. I can’t stand the heartbreak.

By: DeAnna Troupe

DeAnna Troupe — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:13:21 +0000

I use qwitter because I’m a stats junkie. Sometimes I’ll unfollow a person if they unfollow me, especially if they really didn’t interact with me that much in the first place. I do realize that twitter has limits on the number of people you can follow. That’s the reason I like that tool. I don’t really care what people think about me, but it’s interesting to see what makes people unfollow you.