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dreamsharkI started out by following a few basic news sources: Reuters, CNN, StarTribune, Huffington Post. I dropped CNN because it was pretty much a duplicate of Reuters, but Reuters has more international news. Dropped Huffington because they were too verbose. Added The Onion, thinking it would be funny. Mostly, however, it hasn't been. Weirdly, they seem to be tweeting "What Do You Think" topics. Not sure if they are looking for serious discussion or if there are embedded links to their joke on-the-street interviews. I may drop them. Realized that since I actually subscribe to and read the Strib, following them on Twitter is just redundant. Added a few local sources, like City of Minneapolis.
Then I started looking for people I know and followed everyone that i found. Not sure if I want to do that or not, since i really have no feel for what normal people tweet about, or how often. So far it hasn't been too overwhelming - most of my acquaintances don't seem to be the tweet-every-hour type.
I'm following a few celebrities, mostly funny ones like Weird Al Yankovich and George Takei.
I've had about half-a-dozen spammers find me already, which is startling. They must have very efficient bots. I figured out how to block and report them as spammers in one click.
Now I'm being followed by some entity called "Know Minneapolis." I assume this is some kind of marketing entity, but they seem benign, mostly tweeting about local happenings. Why are they following me? How exactly are they planning to make money off of me? Is Twitter too paranoia-inducing for me?
Then I started looking for people I know and followed everyone that i found. Not sure if I want to do that or not, since i really have no feel for what normal people tweet about, or how often. So far it hasn't been too overwhelming - most of my acquaintances don't seem to be the tweet-every-hour type.
I'm following a few celebrities, mostly funny ones like Weird Al Yankovich and George Takei.
I've had about half-a-dozen spammers find me already, which is startling. They must have very efficient bots. I figured out how to block and report them as spammers in one click.
Now I'm being followed by some entity called "Know Minneapolis." I assume this is some kind of marketing entity, but they seem benign, mostly tweeting about local happenings. Why are they following me? How exactly are they planning to make money off of me? Is Twitter too paranoia-inducing for me?
