Today I started my fifth Twitter account. No, I'm not playing with sock puppets, trying to game the system, or completely out of my mind.
These are my accounts, as of now (I love lists):
The first account is my "original" Twitter face. I created it long ago (I don't remember when, but it must have been after 1972) and it is now up to 450 Tweets, it follows 256 others, and is followed by 128. Most of that was in the last two weeks.
PaulGeffen was created today. It is a "professional" account. I started the "following" list by pointing to my Google contacts list. That list has over 500 items of which about eighty were also Twitter accounts. This list is protected. You cannot follow this feed unless I know you personally and approve the follow request. I will use this list to stay in touch with clients and former colleagues.
BostonWagner is the account I created for the Boston Wagner Society, as discussed a few days ago. It follows 85 opera and performance feeds, has 35 followers and has 58 Tweets, most of them re-tweets. This list is just over a week old.
SviatoslavR is a list for followers of the great 20th century pianist Sviatoslav Richter. I started a Richter community on the web twelve years ago with a web site and a Yahoo! email group that I moderate. The Twitter feed is only a few days old and has 15 followers, 15 Tweets, and follows 22 others.
The last item is due to a typographical error on the part of someone at Alfred A. Knopf in New York. They tweeted, the tweet included a broken link, I replied to point this out, and they tweeted again to say the link was fixed and, for some reason, mistyped my name in the message. I created an account to give the link to the misspelled name somewhere to go.
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Well, you may be just a *little* bit out of your mind... ;)
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Paul Geffen told me: “I follow people I can learn from. And there are many!” This encouraged me, since he follows NEMultimedia, our Twitter account. On his main Twitter account, Paul follows more than follow him, 300 to 153, but according to his blog, he actually has five Twitter accounts. Before you get up in arms and think he’s playing games, he’s not. Read his post first.
So Paul -- how do you keep up with all of them? How often do you Tweet on each?
Michelle, it takes a few hours a day. The non-profits' lists pretty much run themselves. That is, I follow many likely sources and then retweet. There's very little original content.
For my public feed, @lpgeffen, I say what's on my mind. Some of it is links to things I find on other sites - ShareThis helps a lot - some is retweets. I follow a wide variety of sources.
For my private feed ... well, I can't tell you about it here. Send me email and we'll discuss it in private ;-)
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