If you’re new to Twitter let me suggest that the only people you want to follow right at the start are people that you know. People that you can email and say, “I have a Twitter account so follow me.” Because if you follow someone that you don’t know, like me for instance, I’ll get an email that says, “So-in-so is following you …”

I’ll go to your Twitter homepage and find, a twit or two, and a bunch of people that you’re following. But that doesn’t help me decide if I want to follow you. My rule for following someone at twitter is pretty simple: if you have any twits that have to do with coding, especially about Flex/Flash/AIR, then I’ll follow you. Secondarily, if you have lots of geeky twits then it’s likely that I’ll follow you. But I need a body of twits to determine if you’re going to be twittering anything I’m interested in.

So spend a week, or more, just writing twits. Maybe no one will see them, yet. But when you start following people, then we’ll read them.

Oh, one more thing, if most of your twits start with an @ sign then I probably wont follow you and I’m sure most people wouldn’t. I do my own share of twitter-replys but that’s not all I twitter. No one wants to hear one side of a conversation.