My Twitter Policy
July 24th, 2008 | by Klaus Holzapfel |Everyone uses Twitter their own way. For me it is a great way to connect many of you.
In order for you to know what to expect, what I am posting about and whom I’ll follow I put my own little “Guide to Twitter” together:
1. Confidentiality
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. If you tell me something that is not meant for the public it will stay where it belongs.
2. Subject of postings
I post about what I am passionate about. I am passionate about a wide variety of things stretching from marketing and Internet trends to sports & politics. I am not posting about every leaf falling off the trees in my yard. You can learn more about my personal interests at the about section of the blog, at my personal homepage or by clicking any of the icons of the top right of the blog.
I am not using 5 different accounts to serve 5 different purposes. Sometimes my postings might seem rather irrelevant to you. Just wait for the next one;-)
3. Conversations
I am trying to limit the number of postings per day to 10-15 max. If we get engaged into a longer conversation I will resort to DM, email, phone or Skype.
4. Me following you
If I follow you then I checked out your postings on Twitter and probably your website. There could me many reasons I am following you.
There is a catch though: If I follow you and you don’t follow me back, you have a higher chance of being removed from my follows list when I clean up once in a while.
This is mostly because I like to use DM when I see or notice something that is not meant for the public but just for you. Seeing that window that I can DM you because you are not following me is annoying.
There is one exception from this rule: If you are a very unique thinker that I consider totally essential you are fairly safe on my follows list. That is your call;-)
5. You following me
I check out my new follows quite often. If you are of interest to me you’ll most probably get a follow back. I’ll eventually have to limit how many people I can follow so this will get tougher going forward.
I look at the relevance, the quality and quantity of your tweets. I’ll also look at your profile and your website if you have one posted there. I do block spammers and wish I could remove them from my list of followers to keep things clean.
6. Monitoring Twitter
Even though I follow Twitter on my Laptop and on my iPhone do not expect me on 24×7. There are other things to do in life.
7. Protected Postings
I don’t like that feature too much. It is like a Twitter within Twitter to me. I won’t knock at your door. You’ll have to follow me first.
So if you either like this blog, are interested in moviebakery or conceptbakery, think my tweets are down your alley or you look at my homepage and see a like minded person it would be nice if we hook up on Twitter. It is also TOTALLY ok to respectfully decline.
Quality should come before quantity. Both ways. Makes sense?
Since Twitter changes my policy will be subject to change as well…
