Yesterday, I wrote about how to identify influential Twitterers who are possible to engage in conversation. I wanted to add a little to that — how to identify which of your own followers you should be following — here’s the process:

If you don’t already have a Fauxlowers.com profile, create one and fill in your settings [...]

You know the old saying, “if a Twitterer Tweets in the Fauxlower Forest and no one is there to listen (only to talk), does that make for social networking?” Okay, that’s not exactly how it goes.
The point is that there’s not much point tweeting if nobody’s listening. So how do you go about finding people [...]

The following is a conversation about auto-DMs that I overheard last night in the land of make believe.
Demosthenes: Auto-DMs are the bane of Twitter. Every time I follow somebody new, I get a direct message that’s obviously automated. They clog up my direct message in-box.
Fluffy: What do the messages say?
Demosthenes: Some of them are like [...]

I have profiles on LinkedIn, MySpace and Facebook. I use Twitter. Here’s why.

The 140 Character Limit
The 140 character limit is the killer feature that makes Twitter great.

It (usually*) prevents people from using Twitter for things they should be doing elsewhere, like on their blogs — ie., writing stuff that can’t be expressed in 140 characters.
It [...]

After a brief discussion with Andy Beard in the comments of one of my White Hat Crew blog posts, I’ve decided to make the “welcome” direct messages that were sent to new followers optional.
There’s a checkbox to control whether DMs are sent on the settings page.
I’m leaving ‘em turned on, but particularly if you already [...]

So you want to clone Twitter and sell if for millions. But you don’t want to spend a lot of money. What to do?
First, you’ve got to define the required functionality:

Enable people to post trivial bits of information.
Make people feel great about themselves by telling them that lots of people are reading what they post.

Conspicuously [...]

One of my Twitter friends surprised me this morning. Let me show you what he tweeted:

I’m not going to name the guy — I’m not here to bash anyone. The problem he suffers from is common enough: he’s following too stinkin’ many people! See that? “1,861 following”!
There are three kinds of Twitter members:

those who follow [...]