Should i follow others on twitter

You have no obligations to anyone on Twitter. Sure, following someone back is good Twitter etiquette, but who cares, right? Are you ready for this? If you want to make the most out of Twitter and not just use it as another app on your iPhone, you need to pick and choose who you follow. If you prune your following to those who really dish out good information, Twitter will become very valuable and less time-consuming. Think about Twitter this way: More is less.

Less is more. Often times I see Twitter accounts following 4,, sometimes over 10, people. This is not realistic nor a viable option to use Twitter optimally. Ideally, we only have so much time in each day.

If you are looking for an influx of information The Internet holds far more than any human can contain. There is no possible way to get through the Tweets from 10, people in a day.

That said, the information you choose to be delivered is less about collecting Tweets like baseball cards and more about digesting them, communicating to that Tweet or simply ReTweeting it. This will provide more benefit to you and will also provide a larger benefit to your followers if you have any. But more on that some other time. There are guides to get your started , but following fifty is optimal for beginners whether you use Twitter professionally or personally.

Some people may only tweet when they have free time or after work hours. Some may be based in the UK and will Tweet on off hours. That can get annoying unless you move up to following frequent tweeters. In this case you will receive more information, which will show their Tweets less but at the same time pack a great amount of information within a short time span.

Starting with fifty also allows you to see what those you follow are actually saying. In the professional manner, a common practice is to follow a specific amount of people per week in order to build your audience. This is quite common on Twitter and can lead to a lot of unneeded fluff. The good professionals will be able to promote themselves while still offering useful information to their followers.

Growing your following, however, is a whole different conversation. Want to fawn over celebrities? Have at it. Want to send messages to your favorite authors? If they're on Twitter, you can. Post interesting, frequent tweets, and you may soon develop a following. But you don't have to do that -- you can use Twitter to follow other accounts without ever posting a single tweet. That brings us to our topic: Who should you follow?

It's not an easy question to answer since who you follow depends so much on what you like and what you're like. Start by adding your friends, then seek out a few of your favorite media personalities.

Twitter profiles are easy to find with a Google or Twitter. Once you're following a decent number of people, just spend some time watching your Twitter feed. Pay attention to others' tweeting habits. Do some people seem to tweet too often and clog up your feed? Or is your Twitter feed updated too infrequently for your liking? This should help you weed out people who tweet too frequently or let you know you should be following more people. If you decide to follow more people, that brings us back to the problem at hand: How do you know who to follow?

Instead of taking shots in the dark, we'll turn to some resources that will help you match up your interests with the best accounts on Twitter. When you first sign up for Twitter , the site will give you some recommendations on who to follow.

This is a sure-fire way to find some celebrities and follow a few of Twitter's creators, but there's a good chance you won't care about any of them. Once you begin following a few people, though, the "who to follow" link on Twitter's top navigation bar will look at your current following list and deliver some useful suggestions.

When Twitter first started, the comment was always made that it's nothing more than a platform where people tell us what they had for dinner last night.

There's still some of that, but most of the updates I've seen over the past few months have turned the service into a viable news and communication platform. In fact, I've seen breaking news on Twitter before mainstream media outlets reported on it. And it didn't come from the CNN Twitter page, it came from a total stranger with ten followers and 2, updates who uses Twitter to communicate with others and share insight and knowledge.

I would have never seen it if I decided that out of all my followers, I would only follow a handful of folks I know. And that's just one example of the dozens of articles, stories, songs, and other information I'm exposed to daily by following all my followers. It's easy to say that following all your Twitter followers is too much work and it takes away from the "good stuff," but I think that's a short-sighted view.

There are over a million people using Twitter right now and about 5, to 10, new users are signing up every day, each with their own story and interests that they may want to share with you. Want to follow Don Reisinger on Twitter? Do it here! Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read.

Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Why you should follow everyone who follows you on Twitter Should you follow everyone who follows you on Twitter?

Don Reisinger. Nope, there aren't rules, but there is etiquette There aren't any rules forcing you to follow your followers on Twitter, but that doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do. The stream doesn't move that fast Similar to the noise argument, I always hear from folks that following everyone causes their stream to update too quickly and it's easy to miss things. Following many people doesn't hurt your follower count Some say that following all your followers makes you look bad to the Twitter community and your follower count will actually decrease because of it.

CNET Networks In fact, online marketing firm Hubspot released a report titled "State of the Twittersphere" recently, and found that there's a "strong correlation between the number of people you follow and the number of followers you have. You shouldn't follow everyone , just your human followers Yes, I know that I said you should follow everyone who follows you, but there is one caveat I should mention: Twitter is rife with spammers, PR junk, and companies that follow you in the hope that you will follow them back.

It's OK to let your Following list grow As more people start following you on Twitter, it's inevitable that the number of people you follow will increase too. Why not let them? Discuss: Why you should follow everyone who follows you on Twitter.