Twitter Policy

Taking a page from Ike, I decided to make myself a Twitter Policy. I just abandoned my 3500 tweets and 700 followers on my old account and started a brand new Twitter account to move forward with my new plan on how I am going to use Twitter.

I plan to continue to use the @Mobilitysite Account to share our stories and contests on a non-personal level.

With my new account,  I am only following a select few people. These people are local friends and family, personal online friends, the celebs that are real that I care to hear, and colleagues that I have become friends with. Don’t be offended if I don’t follow you back. It’s not personal. I am just separating things to make my life easier online. Many of the people I used to follow are now part of my private list (~200), but I have no need to follow many of them on a personal level.

2 new innovations with Twitter have made it where I can pull off this plan without affecting others.

• With the lists, I can follow these people selectively without having to actually follow them. This allows me to separate personal and business (or in my case, hobby). I can choose to not read the list on a particular day.
• With the part where followers won’t see tweets that start with @_____ unless they also follow that account, the static for my followers will be reduced since they won’t see many of my tweets.

As for my followers, if you send me an @reply,  I will probably answer no problem. I just might not follow back. It’s not that I don’t care about the individual, it’s just that I need to tone down the noise.

If want to follow me, my username is now @ChrisLeckness. My tweets are private. Don’t be afraid to request to follow me. I will most likely approve the request.

• I won’t approve you if you have a 1/2 naked avatar.
• I probably won’t approve you if you have about the same amount of followers and you are following and those numbers are 1K+
• I probably won’t approve you if you have 5K+ Followers.

Update: I’ve returned to my original account.