19 Reasons You Should Blog and Not Just Tweet

By Joel Drapper on 11 May, 2009

I just read a very inspiring post by Adam Singer at The Future Buzz entitled ‘19 Reasons You Should Blog and Not Just Tweet’, and I have to say I totally agree with him.

It’s so easy to copy and past links to other people’s articles and write the occasional 140 character tweet, but having your own blog still remains the strongest platform if you’re serious about sharing your ideas with the world.

I found this article very useful and inspiring, and hope you do too.

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It’s Not Always a Good Idea to Unfollow Everyone on Twitter

By Joel Drapper on 4 May, 2009

There’s been a lot of confusion about a recent article I published entitled, Why I Unfollowed Everyone And Why You Should Too, both in the comments on that article, and in a post published in the Search Engine Journal, so I’d just like to clear a few things up.

The title of my article, while very much over the top, put across my point very well I think. Of course I don’t think everyone should unfollow everyone, but the points I raised are valid.

To start with, not everyone is in the position I was in on twitter. Many people took their following very seriously from the start, unlike me.

I didn’t really get twitter at first, and it didn’t help when I read, How To Become A Twitter Rockstar – Sort Of, where @neoblog explained how to find people with similar interestes to you on twitter and mass follow their followers in hope that they would follow you too.

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How many tweets are enough?

By Joel Drapper on 30 April, 2009

So, yesterday I published a post that answered a question that a lot of people have been asking me since I unfollowed everyone on twitter.

I tweeted about this post 3 times over 2 days because different people use twitter at different times on different days, and I wanted to reach as many people as possible that might have been wondering why.

I’m sure a few people saw two or maybe even all three of these tweets, and this might have been quite annoying to them.

Up to now, I only usually tweet about a new blog post once or twice (morning and evening) because of the different time zones.

I was just wondering, how many tweets do you think are enough? How many times should people tweet about their own new blog posts?

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Why I Unfollowed Everyone on Twitter and Why You Should Too

By Joel Drapper on 29 April, 2009

I used to be one of those people that follows everyone back, and followed others simply because I wanted them to follow me. I thought that doing this would cause more people to follow me because I would in turn follow them back, and that’s exactly what happened.

People followed me because I followed them back! That’s where I went wrong.

I wanted to use twitter to promote my blog, and still do, but the approach I took was faulty. I still want more people to read this blog, but I want them to be people that like what I write, and will benefit from it.

Unfortunately, that was not the kind of audience I was attracting.

When I realised I got this all wrong, I was following about 13,000 tweeple. So I decided to make a list of about 100 people that I really want to follow, unfollow everyone, and then refollow everyone on my list. Here’s a few reasons why I did this.

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