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I’m not a fan of following everyone who follows me on Twitter. That’s the beauty of the one-way connection point that Twitter allows. You can follow me or vice versa, but it doesn’t have to be reciprocal.

I’m of the opinion that it doesn’t matter how many people want to follow me. It doesn’t effect me. More people, less people, whatever. No campaigns here to ask people to stop following me. The only exception I have is I don’t want spammers following me.

As for who I follow, I use intuition, checks, and tools to help me figure out who I should … Continue Reading

If you are already familiar with RSS and use it, this post is not for you. Check out the sidebars for other things to do for now. This is for people who do not use or understand the idea of subscribing to websites but want to learn.

You’ll notice here at Orangejack, we offer several ways to subscribe to us, including RSS. Let’s get the irrelevant stuff out of the way first. RSS is short for Really Simple Syndication. All that means is that there are agreed-upon … Continue Reading

There are hundreds of applications to help you interact with others through Twitter. Some are designed for broadcasting, some for finding people to follow, and some for listening. Some are web-based, some are for the desktop, and others are for mobile phones (see Twitter’s recommendations).

Of course you can just use Twitter.com “out of the box” right after you sign up and interact with people well. But if you want to be more effective, you’ll need an application or two or four.

[UPDATE: The Guardian in the UK just … Continue Reading