You ask: “Are you worried that your herd will take offense if you don’t explain your changing twitter ways?”

Well, my followers on Twitter (I don’t ever think of them as a herd, with implications of unthinking behavior, but rather as a TRIBE) may or may not take offense – but communication is an essential tenet of any networking, and this explanation is a short-cut I took for “one to many” communication of this decision.

Will I lose followers because of these changes? Don’t know. I’ve never been one to worry too much about that specific metric, because for my purposes on Twitter, number matters less – quality matters more. Those who matter won’t leave because of this.

Twitter still doesn’t work great for ‘direct response’ style messaging, but is an interesting (and yes, profitable and effective) channel to keep in touch with my audience.

For me, and with my style of “Follow Forty” tweeting, Twitter noise is NOT increasing – hence the value continues to remain high. And as I use Twitter in newer ways, it is becoming MORE valuable day by day.

All success
Dr.Mani

No rules on twitter.

Are you worried that your herd will take offense if you don’t explain your changing twitter ways?

Do you think these changes will lose you some of your followers?

Are you getting better response to your tweets? You were quite disappointed with response a while ago.

Do you think twitter is becoming more or less valuable as the noise increases?

Thanks again for all you do for the children.