I don't disagree with following those people. after all I followed myself for weeks or even months before finding I had little or nothing more to gain. After all to some extent timezones, as much as anything else affect how interesting it is to follow certain people.

Recently using twhirl I noticed that I was getting close to ten thousand tweets a day. That's a lot of information to sort through. The problem was that out of those thousands of tweets hardly ever resulted in personal engagement with certain individuals devaluing the practice to some extent.

I do enjoy exploring people's blog posts at the same time. I enjoy that I now spend more time reading blog posts and commenting, seeing a broader range of opinions in the process.