Sadly, there is some truth to the concept. Twitter folks don’t listen the same way that they did a year ago. I joked to a friend last week that I could tweet about being set on fire and might get a handful of responses (or none!) depending on the time of day and what else was happening. And this is with nearly 3,500 followers. Yet this time last year, when I had fewer than 300 followers, I would’ve gotten an instant and very concerned response from many more folks. Now, there are many more folks using Twitter, but only the newbies are likely to be listening well (until they burnout). People take long breaks away and don’t catch back up. I often find that close friends miss things because they’re actually living their lives.

What’s the solution? Well, I don’t think the tweetaholics have it. Part of it has happened naturally for many of us; we’re simply more conscious about tweeting. People have largely evolved beyond the “stuck in traffic” or “annoyingly waiting at the dentist’s office” tweets to ones that are more significant. Now if some expert would just start suggesting the mantra “think before you tweet,” we might find things to be more civilized and relevant. Maybe?

Second, I think both arguments have value. Should you be tweeting the same thing over and over? Absolutely not, but why not attempt to continue the topic at hand throughout different times of the day to stay on top of your follower’s pages? On my personal page, I rarely dive any deeper than my homepage to read tweets.

Basically, I’m agreeing with you, but I feel that those who strictly want attention, good or bleh, are going to tweet as much as humanly possible. West Seattle Blog is kind of ticking me off with this right now.

Tweeting something multiple times a day is SPAM. If a follower doesn’t read it (or find it) the first time they didn’t care about it to begin with.