silencematters » twitter http://silencematters.com An atlas of thoughts and ideas. Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:05:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta1 What I Look for in a Follow http://silencematters.com/2010/04/20/what-i-look-for-in-a-follow/ http://silencematters.com/2010/04/20/what-i-look-for-in-a-follow/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:08:43 +0000 Jeremy Zilar http://silencematters.com/?p=263 Read more...]]> The most important element on any Twitter profile is the person’s bio, then the URL, which I control-click and open in a new tab. Yes I visit every blog for every follower that has ever followed me. In fact, that is how I find out about so many great blogs.

I find a person’s blog to be the determining factor for a follow, not the number of followers someone has. The bio and the linked website are the 2 elements that are the most relevant rich – maybe the photo as a distant 3rd option – which is why I am surprised to see that the follow notification e-mails still don’t include the profile information.

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I am assuming that most people don’t comb through the follow notification e-mails as often as I do, but I am quite convinced that if Twitter would include the user’s profile information in them, they would find that the notification e-mail would be a richer means of following more users.

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If Twitter is like being blind in a candy store, these tools let you know which candy to try.

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