thank you for this great blog.
Thank you very much for following me on Twitter, I am honoured.
God bless!
Dr.Larisa Varenikova
@DrVarenikova

looking forward, Rob and thanks for the follow!

@memeshift

I follow the same code of Twitter-ethics. And ditto for most other social networking sites (Facebook included)

Thanks for the follow. It’s always good to connect with more dads on Twitter.

I’ve been very puzzled by the number of people who have signed up to follow me. Obviously, I have a lot to learn about Twittering!

Good post

I am new to blogging and twitter too. I have never been one to socialize much at a party or in group settings. Blogging, using social media in my marketing and now twitter is a real stretch out of the comfort zone.

I look to the names that are recognized in social media as a model in all my online efforts.

I am using twitter right now as a way to announce my new blog posts, both to my readers and to my Facebook friends on my wall. I do tweet a few people and can see how I can do more.

Perry Belcher has a good video on his take on social media and how he uses it for business. I have it on my list as content for a post.

Thank you for this post

Mark
@MarkAyers

Krissy
http://www.twitter.com/iamkrissy

I’m still feeling my way around social networking and am getting more comfortable with Twitter, but my philosophy refects my desire to be be a giver first and see where the relationship goes from there. Your perspective will be a help as I connect with people using Twitter.

I look forward to knowing you better. Wishing you the best in 2009

Welcome, and thanks for the follow. It’s totally find to send me a DM when you have something to say! Looking forward to getting to know you on Twitter.

-Rob

Since you have such a nice outline for your policy, I decided to create my own, based on it. Mine is more strictly business-oriented, since I don’t get into discussion of issues outside of my business. I’m also working on guidelines and training for businesses who want to empower their staff to work securely and efficiently, which will make use of this idea.

So, I invite others to view my Twitter Usage Policy and use any parts of it that they like by going to the link above.

Scott Wright
The Streetwise Security Coach

SK

Guinness please.

-Rob

I just think it’s fair to let people know where I stand.

Thanks,

Rob

There was no rudeness intended. You simply don’t follow. If you read the above post, you will see that it is my policy. If you don’t listen, I can’t talk dialogue with you. If I was too efficient, I apologize.

-Rob

Here is the post: http://www.moneymakersportal.com/blog/how-to-pick-up-followers-on-twitter.html

Great to follow for anybody though.

I like how you made your twittering more official by creating this policy. It definitely shows a professional mind set and I am happy to be following you. I plan on checking out your site and look forward to learning something new.

Thank you , Matt

It’s been a pleasure meeting you. I may wonder off to meet others, but it’s great to have a familiar face to whom one can return from time to time. Now, can I buy you a drink? What are you having?

@CLeyerle

Merry Christmas,
Alan

twitter: @alanlhammond

@jon_aston on twitter.

John Corcoran
twitter.com/johnhcorcoran
Omni Law Group, LLP
http://www.omnillp.com

Thanks for putting this together Especially with the mysterious #3.

@harrisonpowers

As for #5, you don’t like spam. Hmm.

Is #3 still sitting in your clipboard?

Like you, and like most, I have strong personal views about topics that involve money, politics, sex, and religion. As long as I’m using Twitter primarily as a professional networking tool, and to some degree am representing my employer, I must admit that any personal content I include carefully filters away those hot button topics so as to not damage my professional relationships or otherwise detract from that content and those discussions. Could my more benign personal content offend too? Perhaps, but I’m controlling the odds.

I expect that one can be an interesting twitterer and provide productive content and at the same time assume pretty safely that no one’s going to miss any attempt by me to push my personal hot button beliefs on them.

- Jim
@JimBarry

I appreciate your policy ad fully agree with it. I have accepted you as a friend on facebook, too, but I am not really present on it. Twitter and my tech blog toplien.net are taking most or my computer time.

Regards,

René
@infogere

Thanks for the post. As a Twitter newcomer, posts like these are helping me to form my own roadmap for using and contributing to Twitterville. @LynnMcFarlane

There are those who use it as a reading service – i.e, they want to find people and link to them, but just a few top people whom they read like magazines. Twitter keeps them updated on new ideas and posts from top Twitterati. For these people it’s important not to link to a whole bunch of people, but create a focused, quality list so they can actually review all the tweets that come in.

There are those who use it as a social service – they want to follow a group of friends and basically chronicle their day. “I’ll be at Cyran’s tonight having a beer, join me if you feel like it.” For these people it can be a bit unsettling having people they don’t know start following them, unless they are looking to make new friends. Or they use Twitter in the way to mix and mingle socially.

Then there are those who use it as a kind of broadcast platform – they try to follow as many people as they can and get them to follow them back, creating as large as possible a network of people to broadcast to. They skim tweets from their expanding network like skimming signs along the highway, and pick interesting nuggets until they can become a sub-twitterati themselves or at least a niche creator. For these people I think the idea is to link to as many people as possible and have them link back, and surf lightly on the wave of constant tweets.

I was a bit perplexed by Twitter as I was first using it as method number two – but since I’m a bit of a hermit and don’t do spontaneous things with a lot of acquaintances, I was rather unsatisfied. And I already have plenty of sources for method number one. Until I suddenly discovered how to use it for method number three, then realized its real power.

twitter.com/martinschecter

Thanks for putting in words my thoughts on how I use Twitter. It is a simple and sensible policy. I’ve found, in the short time thatI’ve been on Twitter that its a great way to connect with new people and gain perspective on how others think and what interests them.

I’m not religious however I am spiritual. That is my understanding and I embrace everyone regardless of religious affiliation. I am also independent politically , and find it hard to believe that we in here in America do not have a strong 3rd party based on the Constitution, fairplay and common sense.

Thank you for the time it took you to write this policy down!

Sincerely,

Robert Mulle

#3 is super secret . . . Actually, @kristiemcnealy said she proof read this thing for me, so go blame her!

I’m a fellow news junkie. Twitter is slowly becoming my first source for updates on the tech I love.

I follow @rails, @techcrunch, and any number of tech folks that consistently give me hot updates, opinions, and the opportunity to participate.

I also love the way I can keep up to speed with my business partners, customers, and the “co-opetition”.

Ads are bound to come but the joy of Twitter is that I can chose to ignore those who wish to spam me. To help guard against spam, I don’t auto-follow anyone that follows me. It may not be quick to have to manually filter followers but that also forces me to be fully engaged.

- Bill

I guess I just see it as an interesting way to watch the world in a sort of real time stream of consciousness.

I don’t have any product or service to sell, it is only polite to tell people about the blogs, so I do that.

And I say things I am thinking, if I happen to be thinking anything that I think the world might think is interesting.

I think it’s good to have a policy on how to use Twitter as people do it in different ways. I use twitter to find out about things I’m interested in. I try to make interesting and relevant contributions back. And am aware that sometimes they’re random and silly. But that’s because I’m human and not an android.

I like getting your tweets Rob. Policy is working.