Loic Le Meur: 10 reasons why I follow 10 000 people on Twitter
Danielito
· 1 year ago
Hi Loic,
I also love watching this river of noise - that's the coolest way to discover new content form.
Another cool way of discovering people is to manage a list of subject and to use the track command. This can be complementary - the little difficulty of that is that it needs to be maintained a little bit.
That would be cool if twhirl managed a list of interest based on tweets or posts that you have starred (imagine that I starred your tweet on spores, then it would add a track "spores", then I would instantly discover new cool people and topics of interests.)
Pierre
· 1 year ago
Loic, instead of following 10k tweeple, you could maybe give www.twitscoop.com a try. That way you will follow 1m+ users, without the noise...
Loic Lemeur
· 1 year ago
Daniel, yes. Pierre, I do not want to listen to 1m+ users, I want to listen to people who listen to me, that is very different. I will give it a try though.
Pierre
· 1 year ago
Loic, I see your point.
I was more thinking about your point #8 above. Twitscoop can be really useful to follow live conferences (how about displaying it on a big screen at leweb ?) I remember a conference in Japan where you did a demo of seesmic, and asked your followers to say "Hello Japan". All of a sudden, these 2 words went big on the twitscoop cloud. Give twitscoop a try at the next conference you want to follow, and you'll see. Happy to discuss during one of your trips to Paris....
Laurent
· 1 year ago
I totally agree with you, with twitter you really feel like you are silently following the life of several people and sometimes you can interact with them ... it's soft ... much more than facebook or plaxo and co It took me year to become an addict of twitter, but know i understand.
Loic Lemeur
· 1 year ago
Pierre, I get your point too :)
Pierre
· 1 year ago
Good :) Seriously, don't hesitate to email me if you want to meet at some point so that we can explain the underlying algorithm etc. Maybe we'll be able to convince you that our cloud is worth displaying on a screen somewhere at LeWeb ;)
Sid
· 1 year ago
Ahhh, Twitter spam. I can see what they are trying to do and I personally would appreciate it since I'm never going to get up to following 10,000 people. Most spam people do follow a shed load of tweeple but the key difference is nobody follows them. The twitter guys need to make one small step further and calculate the ratio of following to followers. If you have 10,000 people following you then it's knid of clear that you should be able to follow 10,000 people yourself.
Maybe theres a golden social ratio in there somewhere. You can only follow 57 people for every one that follows you?
I dunno. But it's not rocket science to see there's a better way to cut spam. Step in the right direction though.
solaiemes
· 1 year ago
I added you (solaiemes) becacuse we are working in the same space, video for internet, till now we only from the technology point of view and soon will launch a internet venture. Also interested in your entrepreneurship background. I think twitter has several methods to filter "tweet.spam" to try before the one choosen
Ryan Graves
· 1 year ago
Loic - I use the same twitter balloon as you do on my blog http://ryanagraves.com/blog/ and it hasn't worked for a while? Are you looking for a solution to this or do you know the reason? Thanks. Glad to have you back.
Loic Lemeur
· 1 year ago
Hi Ryan, it's interesting you have the same Twitter balloon on your blog and it does not work either I don't know why but I am about to get rid of it
Ryan Graves
· 1 year ago
Loic - can you give me a heads up as to what you'll be moving to? I will keep a twitter widget on my blog but I'm just not sure which is really the best! To bad cause I really like the look an flexibility of this one :(
lolly
· 1 year ago
Why can't Twitter let you, or people like Scoble follow whoever they want, whereas 99% of Twitter users, including myself, will never follow 10,000 people... I don't need to follow that many people, and I don't really want to either!
nicolesimon
· 1 year ago
I stay connected with people although i do know I will not read all of them all the time. The main reason for doing so? Because we cannot separate a 'this is what I really want to see now' / 'these people can DM me' and a 'show all for the last X tweets'.
I do not need to have processed most of the messages I could read and I'd be happy to adapt if Twitter would let me ...
mdiogenes
· 1 year ago
It's kind of like an intimate TV station- you can switch it on when you want to find something new or be entertained or get a lot of information.
I definitely think Twitter should figure out a way to have it as a feature- maybe even make it so that you can choose to randomly follow a bunch of people when you want to discover new things.
polemus
· 1 year ago
to twitter experts that have posted in this discussion : do you know about the existence of twitter-like sites offering semantic filters or even filters based on frequency variables (frequency of words, frequency of answers, number of responses) ?
I think there are many of us, me included, that would love to have dinner with you Loic.
arthur chappell
· 9 months ago
My views on these stuid limitations, which I have now hit at 2,001 (with no effort by Twitter to hear my requests for thelimit to be quashed or raised0 are online at http://arthurchappell.me.uk/twitter.limitations...
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I also love watching this river of noise - that's the coolest way to discover new content form.
Another cool way of discovering people is to manage a list of subject and to use the track command. This can be complementary - the little difficulty of that is that it needs to be maintained a little bit.
That would be cool if twhirl managed a list of interest based on tweets or posts that you have starred (imagine that I starred your tweet on spores, then it would add a track "spores", then I would instantly discover new cool people and topics of interests.)
I was more thinking about your point #8 above. Twitscoop can be really useful to follow live conferences (how about displaying it on a big screen at leweb ?)
I remember a conference in Japan where you did a demo of seesmic, and asked your followers to say "Hello Japan". All of a sudden, these 2 words went big on the twitscoop cloud.
Give twitscoop a try at the next conference you want to follow, and you'll see. Happy to discuss during one of your trips to Paris....
It took me year to become an addict of twitter, but know i understand.
Seriously, don't hesitate to email me if you want to meet at some point so that we can explain the underlying algorithm etc. Maybe we'll be able to convince you that our cloud is worth displaying on a screen somewhere at LeWeb ;)
Maybe theres a golden social ratio in there somewhere. You can only follow 57 people for every one that follows you?
I dunno. But it's not rocket science to see there's a better way to cut spam. Step in the right direction though.
it does not work either I don't know why but I am about to get rid of it
I do not need to have processed most of the messages I could read and I'd be happy to adapt if Twitter would let me ...
I definitely think Twitter should figure out a way to have it as a feature- maybe even make it so that you can choose to randomly follow a bunch of people when you want to discover new things.