As a huge Genesis fan, I can’t help but start humming their first single directed at the female fan market – Follow You Follow Me – the chorus lyrics seem to fit the following fad that is pervading the Twittersphere at the moment, namely people following other people just because they follow them.
I, like many other internet marketing folk on Twitter, have a rule that I’ll only follow people if they engage in conversation or, at the very least have something interesting to say.
I’m not really interested in my stream being polluted by people who are too lazy to blog properly, and see Twitter as an easy way to bolster their diminishing self-esteem.
Kevin Rose, Digg-founder and all round internet entrepreneur, has released a tool which will fuel the aspirations of the Twitter mediocrity by verticalizing the top Tweeters in their field.
WeFollow.com, a user generated Twitter directory, splits out celebrities, tech peeps, actors and news and allows you to tag yourself, so people who want to follow your niche can see who’s who in their fantasy Twitteratti!
Check out Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!
Nicely done, it gives a good snapshot of who’s influential in what sectors, and is bound to increase competition between tweeters who value quantity over quality!
