Reflections on Twitter's Following / Followers Ratio
I’ve been thinking about the chase to acquire “followers” via twitter and I’ve come to the conclusion that to pursue this end, for those in religious ministry, is a sort of spiritual death of a kind. It’s one thing to get a follow and to follow back; it’s another thing to spend endless hours on a computer trying to build up a mass following by following hundreds of people you don’t know. My “following / followers” ratio is quite modest and I am aware of this; but to try to jack this up somehow I think is almost an ungodly attempt to get noticed. Marketing has its place. But there’s something dying when a pastor tries to “self-market” him / herself like this. Agree / disagree?
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totally agree
one could say that about most social networking online, blogging…facebooking…xanga, etc. right?
I don’t bother trying to acquire followers. I just feed all of my blog postings plus a scheduled group of tweets that follow a systematic theme for every 30 days into twitter, and let people follow if they want. They usually find me through twitter search, retweets, or friend-of-friend on Friendfeed. If you are consistent and regular in your message, the audience usually finds you.
it’s a useful app, it really is, along w/ much else of the tech phenom. And I think it’s vital to stay w/ the cutting edge of innovation. Having said that I do think the following / followee ratio says something about ourselves. Is it disproportionate? Are we statwhoring? Is it connecting people meaningfully? Just some thoughts.
Totally agree Wayne.