When we joining social media sites and social networks we do so with the intention of distributing the news that we have published new content to and every growing audience. In essence by acquiring followers and entering retweeting reciprocity arrangements we are agreeing to be a part of an ever increasing network with a larger broadcast range.

As we join more than a single social media and/or social networking site and promote the same post on all of them we are flooding the internet with duplicated, triplicated, quadruplicated etc. notifications that we have published. For some this leads to an increase in readers and comments and for others it doesn’t.

I cannot form meaningful personal relationships with hundreds of people online by means of 140 character blurts. What I can share is the titles and links to my posts and that’s it. Social networking gurus warn that posting only titles and links will not increase my followers. They insist I must be “personal”. Well, I don’t want to know about what you ate for breakfast or what music you are listening to. If you want to comment on my posts and enter a discussion about blogging – sweet! If you want to engage me in small talk then forget it. I guess that means I’m out of step with the majority of twits. ;) Oh well …

here’s another link you might find to be useful http://www.twitip.com/i-wrote-a-book-with-twitter/