Twitter has become hugely popular and is only getting bigger. Some users don’t understand that the formatting and content of their tweets has a huge impact on how well or poorly they are received as individuals, and by extension, how likely they are to be followed.
I participate extensively on Twitter with my personal account: @danielpunkass, [...]

Brent Simmons reveals one of the biggest secrets for making friends and influencing people. Yes, it’s the oldest trick in the book: be nice.
Be gracious. Be thoughtful of other peoples’ interests. Don’t be a whiner. Be generous. Be inclusive. Pay it forward… you get the picture.
Have you ever noticed this phenomenon of the internet? As [...]

As Twitter becomes more and more popular, the quality of tweets (Twitter updates) seems to be taking a dive. I attribute this to a couple side effects of the relentless population rise:

An increase in conversational, challenging, and defensive tweets.
The use of tweets to mass-distribute unoriginal ideas and propaganda.

Conversational Tweets

I wasn’t among the earliest adopters [...]

I remember using that “Bounce” command in Mail.app a few times many years ago. My intentions were good: to convince spammers that my email doesn’t exist and they shouldn’t bother. But I always sort of wondered whether it was worth it, and whether I would sufficiently fool the sender that my email address no longer [...]