Well I was on Twitter today and I started thinking about the things that I do when I am on Twitter, I have come to realize that I am a rather selfish user in a sense. When I get on Twitter it is usually about 3 to 4 different times through the day, I do this to check for new followers, replies and direct messages. I hardly ever take the time to actually read tweets from the users that I follow I follow everyone that follows me back just to show some common courtesy, now on occasion I skim through some of the tweets that are at the top of the feed but that is about it.

All throughout the day I am tweeting information and updates of what I am doing through my TwitterFox extension on Firefox. I read a lot of RSS feeds and articles, when I read an interesting article or see something I think is interesting I tweet it out over Twitter to all of my followers and I usually get a lot of hits on my links and things like that. So it came to my attention that people were reading my tweets so how come I never really read there's? It makes me feel like a bad person for people to follow kind of then again the followed me for a reason, but I just don't find the "incoming" aspect of Twitter all that great.

I just love sending out information that I find interesting to other people and know that they are also interested and like to go read or watch what I am sending out. I use Twitter to tweet out things I find interesting on the web and that is it. I don't ever interact with anyone on there or read what others have to say through Twitter, sometimes I do but it is very rare.

Does this make me a bad Twitterer? Or do I just have a guilty a conscience? Regardless my Twitter habits will never change more than likely, Twitter has become a small addiction of mine I just always feel the need to tweet what I am doing or seeing on the web.

So how do you use twitter? Do you do the same thing as me or do you actually interact and read what your followers have to say. I am interested to see if I am the only one with these ways.

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Comment by NeferSif on July 22, 2009 at 10:16am: I try to stay even on twitter. I don't want to overload anyone. I have dumped people I follow that do that. I don't want to get home from work and see 50 tweets from one person. I tweet about 5, RT about 5, and reply to about 5. This keeps me from overloading someone. And lets people know that I actually am reading their tweets. I also try and vary the people I reply and RT too.

Comment by Seif Sallam on June 1, 2009 at 1:45pm: using gnome-do on Ubuntu it notifies me with the latest updates and i can post too

Comment by Jon Sheline on May 30, 2009 at 6:52pm: Travis, I think your tweets ROCK! I see a lot of them over the course of the day (via Disby notifications) and they're usually stuff I'm interested in. I don't see many 'vanity" tweets from you...just informative stuff.
On my end, I'm being sort of cautious about following...I don't want to add too many people on Twitter just yet. With all the email, IM, and social networking stuff I've got plugged in to Digsby, I have a lot of alert sounds...I can just imagine what it would be like if I followed a bunch more people on Twitter.
So far, I've not done much Tweeting myself. I do have my Blogger page set on "auto-tweet" whenever I post a new entry.
Twitter and Facebook are still kinda new to me...I'll have to give it time, but I'm probably gonna lean toward more frequent informational tweeting.

Comment by David Slater on May 28, 2009 at 5:25am: It wasn't that bad to FOLLOW when I had only 50, but now over a 1000 to follow it's hard! Use TWHIRL most of the time, with set searches, to find stuff I know I want. If it's something really good, where the traffic is both ways, then TWEETCHAT is the best! Especially during a NASCAR RACE! (I'm a nascar freak)
I do scroll back thru the timeline, to see if something catches my eye, especially links. There is some amazing stuff out there, with a great number of eye scouring the interwebs, so I follow the links to see what I would never find, unless I get into a STUMBLE session, then I find my own wierd stuff!

Comment by Flash Buddy on May 28, 2009 at 5:14am: Twitter as an events calendar; http://quickcolorado.com/twitterpublisher/ (in development). Personally, I find that tweeples don't want a conversation, still using IM for that. Using search on twitter for Fort Collins, I get a kick out of seeing Job Openings, Speed Traps, Specials and Events.

Comment by Matthew on May 28, 2009 at 2:03am: For me I read and make tweets, nothing to it really. I'm just one of those people who is just happy to finally have people in our society like celebrity's that we can converse with as if they were out friends from down the road. Also the fact that Australia (Were I live) has finally came to it senses and gone with twitter rather do what they've been doing for years and deny the change just makes me happy!

Good post man :)

Comment by Richard Arblaster on May 28, 2009 at 1:32am: It doesn't make you a bad tweeter, however interacting a little more with your followers and even tweeters you don't follow wouldn't do any harm. I use twitter in many ways, soon I'll be using it to promote some services that I'll be offering in the future. I'm still yet to realise the full potential of twitter.

I also see twitter as an extension to conversations you would have in a party or down the pub.

Twitter can be a nice and relaxed place to connect with like minded people and then build upon those relationships via email etc., where you have more than 140 characters to play with.

Twitter is a door opener.

Comment by Andre du Plessis on May 28, 2009 at 12:36am: I hardly read twitter. Maybe they should like have a dig function on posts ? And then the most dugg posts get mailed to you ...

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