5 Suggestions for Twitter’s Whom To Follow by @ScepticGeek

5 Suggestions for Twitter’s Whom To Follow

On August 11, 2010, in Microblogging, by Mahendra Palsule

Here are 5 suggestions for Twitter’s “Who To Follow” feature, that I have seen being mentioned in the Twitterverse:

Avoid users who have set tweets as Private
Avoid users who haven’t tweeted for past 15 days or have less than 10 tweets overall
Avoid users I have added to Lists
Avoid famous celebrities everyone knows
Avoid users I have followed and unfollowed before

These simple things will improve the effectiveness of Twitter’s suggestions greatly.

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http://twitter.com/rawmeet Romit Mehta

Avoid users who have blocked me, or whom I have blocked
http://www.skepticgeek.com Mahendra

Not suggesting blocked users is a great idea. Thanks!

I believe the 2nd is already in place? Are suggestions shown again even after they’re rejected?
Anonymous

6. Avoid users I have already unfollowed, or at least unfollowed recently, they haven’t become more fun to follow overnight
http://www.skepticgeek.com Mahendra

Not sure how that’s different from #5, marfi? Maybe I’m missing something.
Anonymous

I missed to see the comments first My bad.

Well, Block user is one thing, I believe when you block someone you do not receive and friends retweets of what he says. Unfollow is totally not blocking someone, it is just unfollowing that person.
http://www.skepticgeek.com Mahendra

Still not clear I was referring to #5 in my blog post, not the above comment.
http://jojet.com/ @joel_hughes

Great points.

I can’t believe they recommend private accounts. That’s pretty hopeless.

Joel
http://twitter.com/rawmeet Romit Mehta

Yes, it showed me some folks who were rejected (on the home page) …
http://www.twiter.com/mayav Mayav

Ability to add suggested users directly to a list without having to follow them.
http://www.skepticgeek.com Mahendra

That’s a nice idea. I suspect Twitter wants to increase its ‘follow’ relationships and is hence neglecting Lists, so this might be intentionally left out.

Thanks, Mayav!