I will likely follow you if you make more tweets interesting to me. 😉 – Quality > Quanity to me. otherwise I’ll find you at http://search.twitter.com where I’ll find things I’m interested about.

Thx for the reply, the follow and the great topic. (& Twitter, thank you!)

You’re pretty different from the person who only follow something like 1% or 2% of the people following them. I’m listening to you, because you said you’re going to talk to your boss about Twilio (which the startup I work for), and I think that’s cool. So now I’m listening to what you have to say on Twitter, because we’ve got that connection. I’m not expecting to be followed back, but hoping that in the course of reading my Twitter feed we’ll have a chance to connect again over something else you say.

Didn’t @reply you about that because I though if you followed me back I’d be able to send you a direct message with something like, “how’d the conversation with your boss go?” — seemed like a good topic for a DM.

Anyway, thanks for the long response 🙂 I saw your tweet that says:
“I wrote a comment the size of a blog last night on someones blog that I never met before. http://bit.ly/KcBBb – b/c it was interesting..” and I’m glad you’re motivated to write long comments, it makes people who blog really happy.

You make a really important though – Twitter is a lot of different things to different people, and for me it’s even different things in different contexts (for example personal interests @daniellemorrill and business at @twilio and seattle tech community and @seattle20 and my cute dog at @rafethedog). Keeping in mind that people use it in all sorts of ways to communicate with other friends, businesses, brands, celebrities, new, auto-updates, etc. is important to using it because we all have different expectations when it comes to things like frequency of updates, language use (swearing okay?), following back, direct messages, etc.

It’s funny you say you won’t follow me back, since after this exchange I’m even more interested in following you than I was before and have a stronger basis for it now than just you talking about my company. If you do need anything to help you with Twilio as you get started, you always drop me a line at danielle@twilio.com (or email the whole team at help@twilio.com). We’re listening. 🙂

Woah, woah, woah Danielle I completely disagree.

Example: You followed me today on twitter. We don’t know each other, never met and we never talked. I just mentioned “twilio” on my account and you followed me.

1.) I don’t follow you on Twitter and I likely won’t. Why? Because I do not know you, you have not introduced yourself and I’m the person engaging in conversation on my own behalf. If it wasn’t for me being interested in learning about you, who you are and what you do then I wouldn’t be sitting on Danielle Morrill’s blog.

Because we do not know each other, you will likely be one of the followers who I do not follow. Just like @aplusk, @oprah and @kingsthings likely do not follow you or myself. Why? Because “we don’t know each other, never met and we never talked…”

2.) Twitter is not officially defined to be Content vs. Quanity or vice versa. The only definition of twitter is user-defined, you make twitter what you feel it is to you.

My definition of twitter is: Twitter wasn’t designed for celebrities or businesses in mind. It was designed for you and me to engage in conversation we find interesting. If it wasn’t for twitter, I would not be on your blog.

Just suggesting to look at Twitter differently sometimes.

@stevesmename

I do follow a couple musicians, as I want to be ‘in the know’ when they release something new BUT also because I am interested in how they manage their SM relationships (mainly @trent_reznor).

One thing I’d like to avoid, is celeb rt magpies. Basically, seeing a bunch of ppl sending “RT for a chance to win something (RT @oprah 1st 100 to RT win a free snuggie). now, if one comes across for a free car or house, you’ll see me on that rt wagon.

Is it bad to feel that my shiny secret toy has been discovered by the real world?