How to reduce noise on twitter?
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This is the twitter noise reduction apparatus:
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As twitter is ever growing more and more clutter is flushing the social messaging service. Starting with twitter I often followed others without really thinking of the value I might receive by following people.
As a matter of fact twitter became more and more a time sink instead of a valuable source of information and interaction platform for me.
Consequently I started with my “3-question-twitter-follower-strategy” which I stick to whenever I think of following someone. So far I think it worked pretty good out to keep me focused on mass customization & generative design, sustainability and social media which are some of the key areas I am interested in. So here are the 3 questions:
1. Does he/she inspire me (fun, cool ideas, wisdom,…) by the way he/she writes?
2. Do I like the stuff he/she does/writes/promotes?
3. Is the content provided connected to any of my professional or personal interests?
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Every time I answer all 3 questions with NO -> Sorry pal, you are dismissed.
1 YES out of 3 -> you get a chance over the next couple of days.
If I answer 2 questions out of 3 or 3 out of 3 with YES -> you’re in the game.
Easy, isn’t it? So what’s your strategy to reduce noise?
I would love to read your about your ideas?
Additionally it won’t harm to introduce some people/brands/organizations worth following to you:
BIO: In a boycott, everyone loses. In a Carrotmob, everyone wins
Carrotmob is a movement and network that rewards business owners making the most socially responsible decisions. In a competition business owners (e.g. a fashion shop) can apply for a carrotmob. The mob (similiar to a flash mob/smart mob) purchases products from the company investing the highest percentage of the mob-revenues into sustainable projects
David Meerman Scott, evangelist of the New Rules of Marketing and PR. Everyone interested in Marketing and PR should check out Meerman Scott’s publications. My favorites are his books – they are concise, easy reads and full of inspiring stuff.
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Austria’s Nr.1 Anchor Man of the national broadcaster ORF. Valuable news and funny comments with sarcastic touch. Tweets are in German
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I added qrpower recently. qrpower is a great source for everything connected to mobile tagging especially QR Codes.
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If you are a “What will the future of music-business will be” or “a music flatrate will save the world” type of boy or girl than check out wildscreentv. Chris provides you with vivid insights on music marketing. Check the WildscreenTV Video platform as well. Good Indie Music!
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Tweetfeed of Zappos‘ CEO Tony Hsieh – full of interesting, amusing and also fun executive insights.
And out of the mass customization, diy, digital fabrication and open innovation universe:
Fabbaloo tracks all the developments in Fabbing, 3D Printing and Desktop Manufacturing.
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Massimo focuses on Open Systems and Open Collaborative Projects. He was also co-organizing the iRealize – the art of disruption design workshop recently hosted in Italy. He always provides us with very useful and interesting links!
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MakerBot Industries creates open source robot kits (not unlike the Bits from Bytes desktop 3d printer) that transform your digital designs into physical objects automatically.
Besides their open source fabbing project I also like makerbots “tah tah, now WE are here!” attitude.
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Bruce Sterling is a dedicated Wired contributor (Beyond the Beyond) and generative design enthusiast.
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