I trust that the messages I need/want to receive, I will receive. I trust resonance. I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself to read every single tweet and would never take the time to catch up on three pages of them. Instead, I trust that if someone on twitter wants my attention, they will @ me and say, “Yo, hi… hey. I like bananas!” or whatever they think is important or interesting for me to know.

It’s like being in a giant ball room at an event or party. I can NOT be available and present to every conversation happening in the room! I can only tune into one-at-a-time. So if I read a tweet I like, I re-tweet it. If someone says something interesting, I let them know. And, I throw my two cents out here and there, trusting the rest to take care of itself.

I also use TweetDeck. A stand alone tool. It helps me keep track of the very most important conversations. It allows me to set up groups of conversations and has built in Twitter tools (like shortening a URL for instance) making it super easy to get my Twitter on.

I hope this clarification supports you. And do let me know if you have any other questions. :)

I’m following you on Twitter and found my way to your site because of one of your tweets this morning. :-) I was about to give up and decide that Twitter just wasn’t my ballgame, but I feel a lot better – and much more informed – after reading this post. I do have a question for you: How do you keep from getting overwhelmed by the number of tweets from the 1000 (gasp!) people you’re following?? I’m not following very many people, and I’m on overload. I logged on yesterday, and there were THREE PAGES of tweets from one person. Most of them were replies to other people that didn’t make sense to me because I couldn’t see what they said. I guess I don’t really get how to have a conversation with a group of people? Like you can on Facebook?

So, if you can point me to another post or give me any advice, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks,

Sherron