Ok, I love Twitter as much as the next guy, but the question does need to be asked - how many tweets (per day) is too many tweets?
I follow a variety of folks and continue to add people every day.
Some folks are a pleasure to follow while others are spamming Twitter endlessly. I often times open up tweetdeck and see 20 entries from someone posting over a couple of hours and think 'oh come on!' I have to scan through their tweets to read the tweets from other people that I'm following and it can be very annoying.
Then there are others who will post pointless tweets like "wow it's sunny outside." Really? You just had to tell the world that?
What gets frustrating is that I don't want to unfollow some of these folks, because I'm interested in what they are up to and I'm also often interested in many of their tweets.
So how many tweets are too many?
In my opinion, anything more than five tweets a day is too much. If I'm following 30 people and each posts five tweets a day that's 150 tweets that I have to scan through. If I'm following 100 people, that's 500 tweets a day I have to scan through.
500 tweets a day is too much. It's not even the time it takes to scan through the tweets it's the fact that it becomes very easy to miss tweets from people that you are interested in.
And heaven forbid you take a vacation for a week and don't check Twitter and come back to 30,000 tweets over the past week.
So what's the solution?
The solution to me is fairly simple. If you are posting 20 tweets a day STOP tweeting and start a blog! Alternatively, open two twitter accounts, one that you use for normal twitter posts and another that you use for whatever is generating 20 tweets a day (which is most often news items that people find interesting). So have one account for YOU and another account for the 20 Britney Spears items you retweet every day, that way I don't have to get swamped by Britney Spears items when really I'm more interested in what you are up to.
As for Twitter, it would be great if they allowed folks to set a daily limit on how many tweets they want to receive from any given Twitter account. This would almost create a standard. If you could set your account to follow say 'five tweets max per user' then people twittering would self restrict their tweets knowing that many people following them probably won't read anything more than five tweets a day.
From what I can tell most people seem to tweet in the order of 2-5 tweets a day, which is great. It's the people posting 15-30 tweets a day (and more) that should ask themselves whether it's a bit overkill.
I follow a variety of folks and continue to add people every day.
Then there are others who will post pointless tweets like "wow it's sunny outside." Really? You just had to tell the world that?
What gets frustrating is that I don't want to unfollow some of these folks, because I'm interested in what they are up to and I'm also often interested in many of their tweets.
So how many tweets are too many?
In my opinion, anything more than five tweets a day is too much. If I'm following 30 people and each posts five tweets a day that's 150 tweets that I have to scan through. If I'm following 100 people, that's 500 tweets a day I have to scan through.
500 tweets a day is too much. It's not even the time it takes to scan through the tweets it's the fact that it becomes very easy to miss tweets from people that you are interested in.
And heaven forbid you take a vacation for a week and don't check Twitter and come back to 30,000 tweets over the past week.
So what's the solution?
The solution to me is fairly simple. If you are posting 20 tweets a day STOP tweeting and start a blog! Alternatively, open two twitter accounts, one that you use for normal twitter posts and another that you use for whatever is generating 20 tweets a day (which is most often news items that people find interesting). So have one account for YOU and another account for the 20 Britney Spears items you retweet every day, that way I don't have to get swamped by Britney Spears items when really I'm more interested in what you are up to.
As for Twitter, it would be great if they allowed folks to set a daily limit on how many tweets they want to receive from any given Twitter account. This would almost create a standard. If you could set your account to follow say 'five tweets max per user' then people twittering would self restrict their tweets knowing that many people following them probably won't read anything more than five tweets a day.
From what I can tell most people seem to tweet in the order of 2-5 tweets a day, which is great. It's the people posting 15-30 tweets a day (and more) that should ask themselves whether it's a bit overkill.
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