When am I good on twitter ? (by @v_shakthi)

First up , a huge sorry for the recent slow frequency of posts . It was not intentional , let us just say that life in its grand scheme played a few pranks on me and I wasn’t laughing . I run three blogs and all of them are crying out for attention now . With that done , let me get to the point of this post . My presence on twitter is now long enough that at least a few tweeps in India know me . And I recently changed from @sakthidharan to @v_shakthi on twitter .I have a lot of friends on Twitter , 4500+ now . My tweet policy is to share links and to have conversations too . I also tweet quotes and jokes and the like . I am a liberal user of Twitterfeed , but I read all my links that get posted. Here lies the problem , apparently it is pissing off a few folks who follow me . Then the question , what is good on twitter ? and When am I good ? Let us try and answer that in this post

Twitter as I understand it is very different from IM , it is a micro-blogging platform which for the time being is free (I do pray that it stays that way , but then I also pray that Twitter makes money , let’s leave that to the almighty ! ) . So as my micro-blog , what should it contain ? It could contain many things , and it is not entirely wrong if I choose to have my micro-blog reflect Breaking News and Tech stuff that I believe define what I like and want to share . Right ?

Now the next part , after deciding what to share , I also have the liberty to choose how to share it , that is again an extension of what I am and want to be seen as on-line . Essentially , as long as I am sure about what I am sharing , how I share it is immaterial . So here is what I did . I first looked around the net and found out really trustworthy and reputed sources of Information in the areas that I wanted to tweet about . Mind you , this is a long and persistent exercise . It takes a lot of effort to do that . Once I had that list , I used Twitterfeed to automate scheduled tweets whenever new information was there in these places . Some of them are National topics of Interest and some of them are Technical and some other trivia as well . Then I sit down and calculate the frequency and number of updates vis-a-vis the twitter limits so that I don’t get kicked out of twitter . And here again I have to account for my conversations with friends and buffer to RT great stuff that I see on my time-line

There is a catch here , the catch is that the blogs/sites that I identify are updated in spurts . Let me explain , when there are a lot of breaking news items , they are more frequent , when there is some heavy tech updates in the net , they are more and so on . But remember , all this is well within the twitter limits . It is not that I don’t tweet , I do too and I reply to all mesgs addressed to me . So I am not a bot . Heh ! Bots don’t blog

Now my friends , tell me , is the above methodology wrong ? Am I bad on twitter , if I am , when am I good on twitter ?

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