Comments on: An Evolving Cultural Curiosity: We Need A Fake Follow

By: How User Reputation Scores Will Change Twitter « I’m Not Actually a Geek

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:43:49 +0000

[...] Maybe if Twitter allowed you to view tweets only from those with a minimum authority level, it would affect your usage. You know, enable a “fake follow“. [...]

By: Låtsasvänner på Friendfeed? | Bloggtidningen

Låtsasvänner på Friendfeed? | Bloggtidningen — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:24:40 +0000

[...] Michael Arrington en funktion för Twitter och Friendfeed som skulle göra det möjligt att låtsas följa någon men inte se deras uppdateringar. Det måste komma ur något personligt behov som Michael Arrington [...]

By: Teiteste funksjon i det sosiale nettets historie?

Teiteste funksjon i det sosiale nettets historie? — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:43:58 +0000

[...] normalen. Artikkelforfatter Michael Arrington minner oss om at han for noen måneder siden foreslo “fake follow” på Twitter og Friendfeed, og viser til at Friendfeed nå har en funksjon for akkurat det [...]

By: Mandy

Mandy — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:32:43 +0000

Twitter is already “mainstream”. Granted, that comment was made four months ago and I just followed a link to this article today so the general consensus may have changed since then. Even Barrack Obama knew how to use Twitter to help with his campaign. He obviously had someone internet-savvy on his team.

Sure, it’s not like MySpace or Facebook but that’s part of the allure; I mean, look at what a breeding ground for losers MySpace has become. Twitter is super-easy – even my 70-year-old dad can use it, understand it, and appreciate it.

Also, I say this while having only 1 “real friend” who uses it regularly, but my other friends don’t use MySpace or Facebook either. The rest of my twitter “friends” are just internet-famous people.

As for Fake Following, people do the routine where they friend me and then unfriend me quite regularly. I think it has become a common way to get your name seen and possibly guilt-friended, as he who has the most followers wins. I get the message that someone added me, go to see who it was, and they’re gone. It doesn’t work so well with people who can easily see if you’re following them or not! Maybe better on someone with oodles of followers.

By: The Meaning Of Friendship | Fidicaro.net

The Meaning Of Friendship | Fidicaro.net — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:31:20 +0000

[...] problem with this approach is that there is still a lot of social pressure to follow people back. I suggested a “fake follow” back in August so that you can just pretend to follow those people. Friendfeed now has a feature [...]

By: The Meaning Of Friendship

The Meaning Of Friendship — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:41:27 +0000

By: Twitter and Ego Massage

Twitter and Ego Massage — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:24:56 +0000

[...] more followers on Twitter but hardly any on how to have more friends on Facebook or articles like this which highlight the pressure one feels to follow back their followers which basically is derived [...]

By: perde

perde — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:48:06 +0000

good

By: Amigos de Internet, seguidores y reciprocidad | Dondado

Amigos de Internet, seguidores y reciprocidad | Dondado — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:02:22 +0000

[...] comenzaron con su amigo imaginario e incluso Arrington, el editor de Techcrunch, pidió que creasen un “amigo falso” para cada usuario que se encargue de “hacer como si correspondieses a la solicitud de amistad” pero sin [...]

By: Twitter’s 2000-Follow Limit Raises A Ruckus. But How Many People Can You Seriously Watch Anyway? | Semantic Web Search

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:57:57 +0000

[...] humans, though, there is really no need to follow more than a few hundred people. (Although, a fake follow would be nice just so people don’t feel bad when you don’t reciprocate their [...]

By: The Fake Follow Becomes A Reality With FriendFeed’s New Design « Computer 2000 Tech Support Services

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:59:51 +0000

[...] Friend Lists also support “Fake Following” – a seemingly unintuitive feature that allows users to look like they’re following their [...]

By: mykel

mykel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:39:15 +0000

Spot on.. the tweetdeck approach in server not only solves Mike’s problem but adds significant benefit to the service in those other ways. Twitter really has 2 distinct uses. One is to have a river of information that you dip into on occasion, but don’t care if things fly past. The other is to follow specific people who interest you and wanting to read their every word. I don’t live on twitter, so I often find myself reading individuals archives who I already follow to catch up on the old stuff.

By: Il problema del Fake Follow « FMicroblog

Il problema del Fake Follow « FMicroblog — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:41:05 +0000

[...] via [techcrunch] [...]

By: The Fake Follow Becomes A Reality With FriendFeed’s New Design | SesliChat Sesli Sohbet

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:36:16 +0000

[...] Friend Lists also support “Fake Following” – a seemingly unintuitive feature that allows users to look like they’re following [...]

By: FriendFeed Beta Testing New Design, Adds Grouped Friends And Photos

FriendFeed Beta Testing New Design, Adds Grouped Friends And Photos — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:42:13 +0000

[...] Friend Lists also support “Fake Following – a seemingly unintuitive feature that allows users to look like they’re following their [...]

By: Twitter’s 2000-Follow Limit Raises A Ruckus. But How Many People Can You Seriously Watch Anyway?

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:16:33 +0000

[...] humans, though, there is really no need to follow more than a few hundred people. (Although, a fake follow would be nice just so people don’t feel bad when you don’t reciprocate their [...]

By: Twitter Sets 2000 Follower Limitation | Just Past Stories

Twitter Sets 2000 Follower Limitation | Just Past Stories — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:03:23 +0000

[...] humans, though, there is really no need to follow more than a few hundred people. (Although, a fake follow would be nice just so people don’t feel bad when you don’t reciprocate their [...]

By: World IT News » Blog Archive » Twitter’s 2000-Follow Limit Raises A Ruckus. But How Many People Can You Seriously Watch Anyway?

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:24:23 +0000

[...] humans, though, there is really no need to follow more than a few hundred people. (Although, a fake follow would be nice just so people don’t feel bad when you don’t reciprocate their [...]

By: Twitter Sets 2000 Follower Limitation - ShoeMoney®

Twitter Sets 2000 Follower Limitation - ShoeMoney® — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:06:16 +0000

[...] humans, though, there is really no need to follow more than a few hundred people. (Although, a fake follow would be nice just so people don’t feel bad when you don’t reciprocate their [...]

By: Twitter’s 2000-Follow Limit Raises A Ruckus. But How Many People Can You Seriously Keep Track Of Anyway?

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:12:09 +0000

[...] humans, though, there is really no need to follow more than a few hundred people. (Although, a fake follow would be nice just so people don’t feel bad when you don’t reciprocate their [...]

By: Trevor Davis | Blog | Weekly Link Round-Up #43

Trevor Davis | Blog | Weekly Link Round-Up #43 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:40:45 +0000

[...] An Evolving Cultural Curiosity: We Need A Fake Follow [...]

By: Arrington wants to stroke me, my ego that is. | SheGeeks

Arrington wants to stroke me, my ego that is. | SheGeeks — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:35:46 +0000

[...] when Michael Arrington offers to stroke my ego in a recent TechCrunch article. The main point of his article was the following, and is the focus of my rant [...]

By: whiskey

whiskey — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:53:57 +0000

why not a filtered follow?

So you get the news if and only if tags applied in general or specific to an account are found in a tweet then it shows up…

By: anon

anon — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:23:22 +0000

“holding twitter back from going mainstream”?
um.. what exactly is there left for twitter to accomplish to earn that accolade? or better yet, do you live in a bubble?

By: Good luck

Good luck — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:50:57 +0000

I appreciate your effort in somehow making this system(twitter/friendfeed) more popular than social networks. But this system is for nerds who are actually fools. And also for business purposes for which im following you/techcrunch. Normal mainstream citizen hardly uses these services, better u give up this kind of efforts better for u.