Screw popularity. Just make yourself useful.

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Fri, 01/09/2009 - 09:39

That's the killer lesson of Dave Winer's new apporach to noise-filtered tweeting.

"Friends" and "followers" aren't what matter. If you want substance, you need useful inputs. Not volume. Not style.

Not popularity. Those have their places, just not in your face when you're looking for useful and interesting stuff.

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