Interesting tidbit. I’ve been on Twitter as @mapanui for a while now, only having 6 followers of which 4 were, euh, me… So nothing much happened, as you can expect. Then yesterday I decided to go to some people’s following lists, see who would be interesting, and started following them, again on @mapanui, just to spread some more Mapanui love (well, it’s just some basic marketing actually:).
Now, the interesting fact is, I get more people following me, who I wasn’t following myself. Lots of “entrepreneurial” types it seems, people who are already following lots of others, but not necessarily the people I was targeting. I was rather looking for users, regular folk, like you and me.
Tags: twitter
As someone who you followed (JenWilsonSydney), I checked out your Twitter profile, but elected not to follow you – mainly because your Twitter description is of an application, and not a person/blog/service. I was interested enough to come here to look (and am about to follow you in return). Recommendation is to make it clear that there is a person behind this, or ongoing updates. I initially thought you were marketing spam to get me to sign up to an app.
So, learnings from this: a great description can help!
Thanks Jennifer.
I’ve updated the profile description, but there’s only so much you can add in 160 characters. Hope its’ a bit clearer now.
Thanks again.