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Great point! I too see a lot of people i follow only posting when they have new posts- When this happens I usually wait- make sure this is the only thing that they are tweeting about, and then "unfollow" them. My RSS reader is my newsreader. Twitter is something different.

Not everyone that I follow or that follows me reads my blog regularly and many of them probably don't have it in their newsreader. However, if I post something that I think might be of more general interest than my average post, I might tweet about it. But I do think it should be the exception, rather than the rule.

The biggest problem I have with Twitter is the amount of outright drivel you have to plow through to find something worth reading.

My goal is to meet writers with the goal of bringing the good ones into our "stable" of authors (we publish eBooks, but only well-written stuff). Unfortunately, as one fellow put it, "writers write". And they'll often write about anything in an unconscious effort to avoid working on their bread and butter issues. I swear that many of them live on Twitter during their waking hours, just to avoid dealing with writer's block. As a result posts often feature such pearls as "Fixing myself a sandwich".

Now, I'm only following around 30 people. If I log into Twitter once a day, I have to wade through several pages of this purple prose to extract one or two nuggets.

How does anyone keep up with 200 people? I see a lot of folks who follow hundreds of people. They can't be reading ALL of that trash. So, why do they do it? Their own "broadcasts" will probably be buried in as many posts as they have to wade through themselves.

Thank you for all of your thoughts, I apologize for the delay in getting back to you.

I do follow over 200 people, but follow is a very general term. There are several people on twitter I pay close attention too, and others that I only see what they have to say when I happen to be on. My visits to twitter have been very infrequent. As a Small Business owner, I have a difficult time finding time to chat with everyone, but i love to see a few who I consider Tweet Friends around when I happen to get some time.

It can be difficult though, it is still very "clicky", and can be tough to communicate in any conversational mode with people following more than 50 users who only see you once in a blue moon. But thats just the nature of the game. Like anything in life, you get back what you put into it, no more no less. so it is all about your intent.