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Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Sharon Rosen — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:12:17 -0000

That is a great tip many people don't know about. I actually like seeing @ messages to other folks though since it's a great way to learn about more cool people on Twitter. Instead of filtering those out of view entirely, I am heavily dependent on TweetDeck. Now, if they would only come out with TweetDeck for cell phones life would be perfect!

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Gregg Masters — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:46:48 -0000

Chris...you rock my friend and earn your stripes everyday!

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dawnaurora — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:45:05 -0000

Thank you for the great tip. It makes twittering a bit easier.

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Amy Flynn ~ @allaboutenergy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:14:35 -0000

I use the setting and always have. I'd go nuts if I saw a stream filled (over filled with @) I am chatty, most people I follow are chatty.

I too like the see the whole conversation. Easy. I go to someone's page, like @ChrisBrogan and read. If a reply looks intriguing I click and go intot he statuses and follow the whole conversation. I select which conversations I want to trace and read and meet new people this way. It also keeps my twitter stream clean. I have a low tolerance for too much noise.

Peace
Amy

@allaboutenergy

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Sam With Traffic Is King — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:13:44 -0000

That's okay. I still like to see what people are talking about even if it's clutter chatter. Then when it is time to clear out my followers I can un-follow those that are not really adding value to me. Useless chatter does not help me in anyway. I can not help them either because the conversation has no substance to it.

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Diyan Yap — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:10:44 -0000

Same with Meg, Joanna and others , i'm enjoying @reply also, Thanks for the tip

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Susan/Together We Flourish — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:55:15 -0000

Haven't reached that problem yet, but I appreciate the tip for the future.

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Julie Hewett — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:48:58 -0000

I wish you could set this on a per person basis. Often the @Replies are the ones that get my attention! Many times based on the reply I look at the other person's profile and see that I too want to follow!

If @ChrisBrogan has taken the time to reply; maybe it is worth my time to read?

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Lynn — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:34 -0000

I agree with Meg, Joanna and others -- we enjoy following the @replies of SOME people...that's how we find out who's out there and what they're up to. Thanks for the tip, though! :>).

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Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Tishia Lee — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:40:30 -0000

Thanks for the tip. I didn't even know about it.

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Mark — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:26:33 -0000

While it's better than nothing, the granularity isn't that great. Sometimes you just want to turn off the option for a small handful of the people, not everyone you follow.

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Garry Parkes — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:13:30 -0000

So Easy, So Simple.

Thanks for the tip.

Shame I didn't know about it before I filmed my "Dominating Twitter" tutorial !!

Garry

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Sue Waters — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:39:54 -0000

@BarbaraKB Sorry but I have to agree with Chris here.

Perhaps it is just we are both sensitive. But for me there is nothing worse than when someone says to you my partner saw my twitter account and said who is that @suewaters - doesn't she have a life? Or when a conference account follows you and you go across to see their conference feed to see their twitter widget full of your tweets.

I also give the same advice on my PLN yourself site as I get a lot of educators who follow me and are following only 20 people.

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

BarbaraKB — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:28:25 -0000

Chris, I'm shocked you recommend this esp. to the new Twitter users. Best way to find new friends @ Twitter is to see who others are having @ conversations with, thus a new person who has particular passions either locally or by subject, you follow those folks and see who they're @ with. That's the absolute power of Twitter: real conversations in a human stream of information.

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Liz — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:18:54 -0000

Thanks Chris. We all love you for these things.

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Brian Duggan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:12:02 -0000

Chris--Thanks a bunch for this. I was just looking around in tweetdeck for some kind of setting that would do that!

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Wesley Craig Green — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:22:20 -0000

Like most here, I didn't even know this function existed!

Now I won't feel like I'm eavesdropping on other people's twitter conversations, or feel like I'm missing out on some joke. Thanks, Chris!

Wesley
The Geek Entrepreneur

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

sean808080 — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:32:10 -0000

Um....er. This is new? I guess for some it would be. I was hoping for something that isn't in common use.

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

steveellwood — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:09:53 -0000

Chris, I'm sorry - you *do* swamp me. How could I deal with it? I have you [and some of the other more generous tweeters] in a custom netvibes page where I follow you by RSS.

Oh, and like some of the other guys - I check out who you're @ing if the reply sounds interesting.

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Karl Long — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:19:52 -0000

I guess it very much depends on the kind of network you have. Like Cory, I feel I would miss out on a lot of serendipitous connections with people that I would not have met normally. It helps me build a cross section of disciplines and perspectives. I find the more diverse the nework of people i am following the more I learn, there is tremendous value in the public conversations on twitter. I tend to follow people with a good signal to noise ratio.

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

CoryOBrien — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:49:51 -0000

Though I do what many above me do and use the replies to others as a way of finding new and interesting people to follow, this is a good trick to know when you're trying to teach someone about Twitter, and you want them to follow some of the heavy hitters without getting overwhelmed.

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Dave Ferrick — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:51:48 -0000

Dale,
This isn't exactly what you're looking for but a user's favorites is actually a feed. So Chris's favorite tweets can be found in these 3 links:
http://twitter.com/chrisbro...
http://twitter.com/favorite...
http://twitter.com/favorite...

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Brody Dorland — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:28:04 -0000

For those that use Tweetdeck and want to remove @ messages on the fly (without modifying your twitter settings), here's an easy trick:
1. Go to the bottom of your desired stream column and click the "filter the tweets in this column" button.
2. Select "Tweet Text" and the minus sign (remove), then type the @ symbol in the box.
Volla...only original tweets...

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Dave Ferrick — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:15:23 -0000

Like a lot up above, I've toggled this off and on a few times to find new followers but it can't come close to the folks I meet through search.twitter.com. I've got about 10 search feeds in my Google reader.

Re: Unswamp Your Twitter Feed

Stacey Stewart — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:11:11 -0000

Chris,

THANK YOU for this! I was getting sick you rubbing your popularity in my face! Just kidding, of course! Actually, I gain a lot of insight from reading responses. Though, it only helps when I know what is going on in the conversation. Thanks for yet another piece of Twitvice.

Stacey