Nurture

I love Peoplebrowsr reporting. I used to run all over the web for different tools, trying to find which ones would tell me which things I wanted to know. Now PeopleBrowsr has a tab full of the reports I need. See the purple report icon in the header. In the early days I read about every user that connected to me. I made a conscious effort to ban ones I thought were pure spam as part of an effort to help the network filter garbage. I contacted people that interested me. My process was so time consuming. I finally had to let it slide when I realized I was losing an hour to connecting this way. Surely there was a faster process. I look now at the Followers not Following and the Recent Followers reports when I want to connect with more people. I admit to every few months notifying my followers to reply to me if they think I should be following them and I am not. But I don’t think that works well with the firehose we have now. I nearly always follow people back who reply to something I say, just to discover who I am in conversation with. All these practices around following people has my main twitter stream moving pretty quickly. I don’t mind when I am using PeopleBrowsr, because my filters still give me the information I want to receive. However, if I need to go back to twitter.com or I am on my smart phone, I can lose the people that matter to me in all the noise. So every couple months I run the Following nor Followers report so I can stop following, easily, some of the strangers that stopped following me. It makes an easy sweep that I have few qualms over. After all, they disconnected from me! I readily admit that there is a group of people that I follow who do not follow me. And if I am really valuing what they are offering, I still follow them.

* Remember that it is best to unfollow in PeopleBrowsr as the twitter api does not make it easy to match up unfollows. PeopleBrowsr has added a synch following/followers option in the settings (see footer).