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Humerous but oh so TRUE. It should be mandatory to view this flowchart before you create a Twitter account!

Not iron clad but worth using.

Very interesting!! Quite useful for many! :-)

Awesome :)

LOL! Haha, just because they have "entrepreneur" or "maven" in their bio does not mean they are worthless... well... ok... maybe...
Good one!

It's good to see my exact decision making process is validated by someone else :)

Kind of takes the fun out of Twitter. A FLOW CHART? Come on, these are living, breathing people we are talking about, not data.

Some of the points are valid. However, for example, I have seen people with not-so-interesting bios who turn out to be fascinating tweeps. I prefer to take a more personal approach. I can always unfollow if I'm not finding value.

Thanks for highlighting my Twitter decision flowchart. It really was a bit tongue-in-cheek although founded on some useful fundamentals. It's just an approximation to the thought processes that go through my head as I decide whether to follow or not, but I hope I'm a sentient, feeling being too, and so can make those personal decisions without deferring to an algorithm entirely...honest.

sciencebase, thank you very much for creating this flowchart! You can see that it is widely loved. You rock!

Thank you for documenting my process. :) The only step "missed" is reading a few Tweets to validate whether or not they're primarily about sharing or selling.

Cool you made me check my twitter status. Thankfully I have no guru status next to my name. ;-)

LOVE THE CHART! Only question I have is: "engage>boring?>unfollow". Is it realistic to assume we have time to engage back with everyone who engages us on Twitter, and is that worthy of an unfollow? That sounds more like an ego issue to me. :)

What about the rest of you? Thoughts?

Me: Do they favorite tweets? If so-are favorites from/about other people? Are they interesting? That's key.

Interesting point Kim, I've not even vaguely looked at Favorites on Twitter in any context at all. I should check out the primer...

Doh. I went with the user name since it's short and catchy.

Flowcharts are genius.
Flowcharts,simplify,clarify,demystify,and in this case verify.
Brilliant!