Hi David,

I’m very flattered that you’ve included this post, and another one of mine, on your Education Paragon Wiki pages. Thanks so much! I hope your students and associates find them helpful.

I’ve just written a new blog post about the excellent resources included on your Wiki pages, How to Use Twitter: Multiple Resources — https://executivecareerbrand.com/how-to-use-twitter-multiple-resources/

I hope you’ll check it out. Thanks again!

Best,
Meg

Thanks for commenting, Sue.

I can see that you have a clear understanding of how you want to use Twitter, and who to follow. You seem to lean more toward using it for personal reasons, rather than business, which is more to my purpose. I’m more interested in relevant business-talk, and not so interested in personal banter, back and forth — I mostly don’t have time for it. And that’s all okay. That’s the beauty of Twitter. Everyone can have their own agenda, and tweet up with the people they like.

I’ve found over the four or five years I’ve been on Twitter that my “rules” for following are ever-changing. I’ll now follow some people I wouldn’t have when I wrote this post. And sometimes the rules don’t apply at all!

Thanks for keeping your post updated with smart reasons for not following certain people on Twitter. We are sharing your ideas with other educators across Canada.

We have added your post “14 Reasons I Won’t Follow You On Twitter” to our wiki David Spencer’s Education Paragon at http://education.davidspencer.ca/wiki/Twitter

Evandro,

Thanks for your comment. I sometimes hesitate following people tweeting in a different language than English, but if I get the sense that what they say is consistent with their brand, and they seem to be someone I want to align with, I usually will follow them.

I appreciate your thoughtful comments, Irene.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Twitter! I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it pretty quickly. Just keep at it.

Check out this post for some ideas:

Twitter Executive Branding Strategy: The Beauty of a Retweet — https://executivecareerbrand.com/twitter-executive-branding-strategy-the-beauty-of-a-retweet/

Happy tweets!
Meg

Quote: “If you have to talk about yourself all the time, you’re probably not that great.” I liked this very much too, it made me laugh. Also, the notion “social mediarrhoea” mentioned in Maarten van Rijn’s comment, is a very interesting one.

I’m new to Twitter, just one week. I’m reading articles on how to use Twitter. I think that what to tweet and how to tweet it, is a matter of common sense, as all the ways of communicating, and one rule: don’t do to others what you don’t like be done to you.
I’m still confused about hashtags and while thanking people who use my name in a tweet with them, I inform that I have no idea in which way they are used. I might know what the abbreviation means, but not how is used.

The only thing that bothers me on twitter is the limited 140 characters. I don’t like “killing” syntax or words. Also, I wanted to tweet a famous quote of an ancient philosopher, and due to 250 characters involved I put it in 2 consecutive tweets with a “-“. But the result was that only my 2nd tweet to be re-tweeted by someone, just because it had 1 word which suited them, providing a completely opposite message than the whole quote (in accordance with your #13 & #14 reasons). I blocked them and deleted both my tweets, although it bothered me I had to.

Thank you very much for your post. 🙂

I appreciate your comment, Germán. I’m not someone who worries about having a huge following either.

Best,
Meg