You’re totally right – having a little history (more than just “setting up twitter…” “trying twitter…” really helps show that you’re, well, human and would be interesting to follow.

seriously though, thanks for your take and the heads up here on some of the peripheral twitter services. i’ll be checking them out as i continue to dive head first into the new social networking world.

a few observations i’ve made regarding twitter: the more original content you generate with your tweets, the more likely you’ll be followed back. also, the shotgun style of following 1,000 people right out of the gate (in addition to making you look like a spammer) seriously lowers the likeliness of people returning the follow. i think a more scoped rifle, if you will, approach leads to better results. i tend to do a location search for people in cities i play shows in and then go through and really check out the person i’m about to follow: website, blog, myspace, read through past tweets , etc. to see if its really someone that i have at least some sort of common ground with. so far i’m at about a 25% return follow rate which i think is pretty good from some of the other stuff i’ve read. i also waited until i developed some tweet history before searching out and following people. people need to get a feel for you and your style before deciding to get updates on the minutiae of your life. :) thanks for your blog iKeif!

peace–drew