Comments on: Getting Ruthless with Information Overload

By: Stany

Stany — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:46:36 +0000

Information overload and distraction from doing real work are stopping most of us from reaching our goals.

Using Google reader for RSS feeds helps me keep track of people I follow (not only n Twitter) and I use it as a searchable database as well.

By: EPA

EPA — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:51:28 +0000

Lyndon Lyndon Lyndon, whats the high ADD score :) its those Doritos and diet cokes baby , Monsoooooooodium Glutaaaaaamate (probably spelt wrong) I remember years ago when you dropped a twat , sorry a tweet , tweet , its a tweet :) it read , “twittering naked in the bath” aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh classic … your northern monkey friend D.
ps when you getting your arse up here to take me out for a curry ?

By: Lyena Solomon

Lyena Solomon — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:29:52 +0000

Lyndon,

I hope you write a follow-up to share how your strategy worked out for you.

My Twitter strategy is very similar to Chris’s. I Twitter-follow more people than I actively follow, but I use tools to process and summarize their feeds so I know that is buzzing on Twitter. I do like the option for the people I follow to DM me if necessary. From time to time I circle through all people I follow and try to interact with as many as I can.

I agree with 2 major things you outlined: make sure your social media strategy works for you; and do not let Twitter consume all your time. Looking forward to reading about results.

By: Dr. Pete

Dr. Pete — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:43:10 +0000

I just took 30 days off of Twitter and FB for exactly the same reason. It still has value for me, and I enjoy keeping up with people, but the downside of the distraction is very real and has become measurable for me. I’m not sure if I needed to quit cold turkey, but clearing my head did me good.

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:38:21 +0000

Quote: “That way I can still be following a large number”

In the context you describe the word following automatically receives quotes; you’re “following” people. It’s not really following them though, right?

Do you opt to do it this way, instead of Lyndon’s way, to sort of compliment the people whose follow button you hit?

By: InfoNote

InfoNote — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:44:13 +0000

You can keep your twitter followers and follow only the very important followers using RSS.

By: Chris Cree

Chris Cree — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:21:55 +0000

I’ve adopted a different approach to solve that problem. I just removed the main tweet stream from HootSuite and only pay attention to specific lists and searches. That way I can still be following a large number while keeping the information flow to manageable levels.