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But what does following a lot of people say?
- You’re trying to learn more.
- You’re trying to meet more people.
- You’re trying to be a better listener.
- You’re communicating to the world that you’d like to be listened to (golden rule: treat people how you’d like to be treated).
- You’re trying to find out about more stuff. More events. More stories.
Now, who would you rather hang out with? A person who only talks and doesn’t listen? Or a person who listens to as many people as he can?
Now, I really don’t care about people who unfollow me anymore. Go ahead. Doesn’t make me feel bad. But the more people I follow, the smarter I get, the more connected I get, the better the experiences I have in life (see previous post). So, that’s my new story. The secret to Twitter is how many people are you listening to, not how many people are listening to you.
Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger Scoble, you still manage to spam everyone who’s in your network with your silly tweets. Obviously, quantity over quality of “networking” is your way of getting popular. We all know about your “friends” on Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Flickr, Friendfeed and many other social networking sites.