Comments on: Twitter Explains Their Selections for Default Suggested Users

By: Baxter Tocher

Baxter Tocher — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:24:59 +0000

This is, frankly, daft.

The folk that are signing up for Twitter nowadays are patently not early adopters, and are therefore unlikely to have even the *remotest* clue who these “famous” people are.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

interesting point regarding the early adopters – they sure did leave them out – wonder why they (the early adopters) didn’t make any stink?

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I made a bit of a stink but anyone who whines looks like a jerk.

By: @Factor77

@Factor77 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

These could be paid suggestions!! Get a business model Twitter!

People advertise their twitter accounts all the time over top of my Gmail

By: dj chang

dj chang — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So, lets get on the good side of twitter and talk about them a lot. http://twitter.tearn.com/ lists the top twitter users, brands, and celebrities. Let’s twitt, twitter, tweet, and blow our brains out to get on twitter’s recommendation list ;-)

By: warzabidul

warzabidul — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So in other words suggest people as if it was the old media, that way guaranteeing users are passive, thus lowering overall engagement.

By: Dennis McDonald

Dennis McDonald — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lame. I would demand homemade cupcakes.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I heard that! I am heading to the supermarket today – will make some great Twitter cupcakes

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Interesting bunch of people – Veronica Belmont for example. Why? 280k followers with only barely ~3500 updates? Justine or iJustine, again – why? 301k followers with only ~6600 updates. So it’s definitely not gauged on how many updates you do, or even the quality of updates. Someone who is suppose to be the “internet” talks about cleaning her freakin’ apartment instead of sharing cool internet information. Lame.

So for example – Allen here, CN – @centernetworks – ~9400 followers, but also follows ~1900 of who follows him, AND — ~12400 updates!! More than iJustine / Veronica combined. TechCrunch – ~286k followers, following 634 – with ~7500 updates

Now here is the big difference – @centernetworks will engage you in CONVERSATION where as TechCrunch, Veronica, iJustine is basically for lack of a better term – a big WANK session.

So what is better to feature – some people that will actually use the conversational tool that twitter should be – or feature a bunch of WANK session pro’s to introduce the mainstream too?

Bottom Line – LAME list!

Rex

By: kopper

kopper — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rex,

I don’t think Twitter is a “conversation tool”… I think you’re thinking of a chat room, and IMHO too many people use Twitter as just that (and I wish they wouldn’t, personally).

Also, who cares if iJustine or whoever that is tweets about cleaning her apartment. The question is “What are you doing?” and not “What valuable information can you bestow on us?”

My two cents,
kopper

By: Dennis McDonald

Dennis McDonald — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I still prefer homemade cupcakes.

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

While I sort of agree, I also think that some times a quick tweet between two people is quicker than a chat room. But that’s me, and thanks for commenting back. Writing an angle on this now.

Rex

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i am going to come to your town as i make the move to silicon valley and bake you some fresh cupcakes

By: Scot Duke

Scot Duke — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am with Rex, and Twitter is a “Connversation Tool”..not sure how anyone can see it as not.

I would rather there be interaction on Twitter than people using Twitter as a platform to ‘Hose Me Down’ with stuff that is nothing but an attempt to impress upon us how popular they want us to think they are. Getting ten’s of thousands of followers and then saying nothing and interacting with just a few is not impressing anyone…or it shouldn’t.

I don’t see Twittter as a chatroom but I do see it as a place to validate a person’s existence through conversation. I am sure I am not alone with saying that I am not interested in the millions of posts on Twitter place by people who’s only mission in life is to place yet another billboard of product advertisement on the already saturate information highway.

By: Todd Anonymous

Todd Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I agree that it shouldn’t be viewed as a conversation tool. It’s a social networking or communication tool. Big difference. Also, Twitter should implement a way for people to find people with similar hobbies or interests when they join up (possibly with tagging or other functionality) rather than this same list of celebrities and whatnot for everyone.

Todd A.