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Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:13:40 -0800

With a lot of followers comes a lot of cruft. Having specific standards helps weed out the worst. I generally won't follow those who:

* Only tweet with links to their own posts (if I wanted to subscribe to your blog, I would)
* Don't ever @reply to anyone (it's not very interesting to listen to someone who's talking into a vacuum)
* Don't have any tweets at all (do you understand the premise of Twitter?)
* Follow way more people than follow them (this seems spammy, or at the least, desperate)

Obviously some of these are very subjective, so they're just general guidelines. You've basically got eight or nine tweets to catch my eye (that's how many show up in my first screenful).

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