F. Andy Seidl (faseidl) on Twitter

F. Andy Seidl Twitter: faseidl Thank you for visiting my Twitter information page; I'm glad your here!  This page is intended to help you decide if you want to follow me and to understand how I choose to follow others.

Following Policy

I follow a large number of people on Twitter, but I do not automatically follow whoever follows me.  I personally look at each individual new follower's Twitter profile and related web address and then decide whether or not to follow back.  I don't have hard and fast rules to determine who to follow back but here are basic guidelines (pluses and minuses) that I think about for individuals:

+ Complete bio (e.g., real name, real location, web address, photo, descriptive bio text)

+ Real photo (of you, not your pet, or a cartoon)

+ Majority of recent tweets are interesting to me (or are at least not completely uninteresting to me)

- o_O image

- Selling something in your bio

- Very high following/follower ratio

- Very small number of tweets

- Fake or vague information (e.g., Location: near you)

Twitter Goals

The main reason I started using Twitter is that I sensed it was another disruptive technology hiding in plain sight—one that I should be familiar with.  As I write this, I'm about 1700 tweets into it and I've come to appreciate that I now use twitter for a whole host of reasons that stem from daily interaction with many hundreds of individuals that share overlapping interests.  Over time, I'm sure my goals for Twitter will continue to evolve.

Tweet Topics

I have made a conscious decision to not maintain multiple Twitter "personas", at least for the time being.  Instead, I tweet across a variety of topics that reflect my various personal interests and roles, including (but definitely not limited to):

• Software and technology (especially Web 2.0, social media, XML, XSL, RSS, software architectures, topic maps, KM, …)
• Online marketing, brand building, SEO, analytics
• Entrepreneurship
• Science, rational thinking, and skepticism
• Politics and religion (yea, even those ;-)
• Evolution, memes, selection (natural or otherwise)
• Ann Arbor
• Backpacking (especially Mt. Rainier and the Wonderland Trail)
• Bob Dylan (I'm a big fan)

I do somewhat modulate what I tweet about based on the time of day—during (Eastern time zone) business hours, I tend to focus more on business and technology issues.  But that's just a tendency and certainly not a guarantee.  I mostly (but not completely) resist the minute-by-minute-personal-narration type of tweet (e.g., "Lilacs in bloom; off for a run in the Arb").