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Twitter. I love it. You’ve heard of it (or you live under some sort of digital rock and haven’t heard of it, and if that’s the case, why are you reading my blog?). I love it because it forces brevity and it makes it easy to get info out there (post, text, use an iPhone app, use a desktop app, etc.). I follow some, some follow me, and that’s how I keep up with a small circle of my world. In realizing that everything I commit to absorbing (read, RSS, email, etc.) takes a fraction of my time, I par down my Twitter to follow just a few, a few that have to succumb to my personal Twitter rules.

Conversely, I try to adhere to these rules myself, too, in posting. It seems only fair.

Not all of these have to be met, but for each one that is met, it increases your chances that I’ll follow you:

1 – be interesting. I’m not concerned with what you eat for breakfast unless that food sang to you or is from some fascinating foreign country.
2 – post enough to make it worth my time. At least once per week is a good lower limit. Once per day is better.
3 – don’t post so much that all I see is your name. I learned this lesson myself after I attempted to “live twitter” the C3 conference. I annoyed a lot of my friends. So, I adopted twitter.com/avclubbreakout as a “live blogging, media” channel for that type of thing.
4 – be my wife, boss, or close personal friend
5 – don’t string along a conversation for more than 1 or 2 replies… unless it’s interesting trash-talk.
6 – speak in English (I wish I could accommodate foreign language Twitters but alas, I only speak English)
7 – ask me to follow you. Usually in-person works well.

So there it is, my Twitter code. I wish I could follow and interact with everybody but my time is finite and too much Twitter ends up diluting things. So that said, consider following me?