Community

Twitter, and in fact many social networks, has established a new form of digital 'community'. While there continues to be countless seemingly random shouts of "Need coffee", and " Tweeting is cool!", there is more often a purpose to these 140-character comments. Conversations are happening. People are sharing information. Business is being done. Economies are building. Yes, there are even the shills, and charlatans that appear wherever communities form. The 'Twitterverse' is just another medium for them to grow in, with its own unique rules, limits, opportunities, and language. The fun thing is that you can choose which communities to be part of. And similarly, like with the cool group in high school, you're not always comfortable fitting in. I'm establishing my role in a few communities as I go. Comfortable enough to join in. Not yet bold enough to lead. We're working on it.

Followers: 2,226
Following: 2,240
Updates: 168
Rank: 12,560th

We've reached a very significant milestone. No, really, I'm not kidding! The 2,000 follower mark is not just a nice number, but the TFF ratio rules change at that point. Twitter firmly believes that nobody can follow more than 2,000 feeds, so they don't let the average user pass that mark until they've passed the 'I am worthy' test by having a similar or greater number of followers. The actual number is shrouded in mystery, but is believed to be within 10%. That means that a TFF ratio of .01 is NOT acceptable once you hit the magical 2,000 number. TFF ratios approaching 1 or better are required to stay in business. Our healthy .99375 is well within limits, but we're going to need to keep it healthy, or we'll be forced to cut down on our followers to maintain the balance. Of course, since followers and friends are mutually exclusive, we could simply drop a large portion of our following category. However, remembering that there is a community out there, it's unclear how the community would react to such treatment. I'm not prepared to test those waters just yet.

I hope you're as impressed by the 2,200+ follower number we've reached this week as I am. It certainly gives some hope that this journey is not as impossible as it seemed in the beginning.

Onwards and upwards! And don't forget to follow me on Twitter! twitter.com/campbed