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The word of the week is following.

18.11.2013

I have three Twitter accounts, of which the most popular is Kielipoliisi (”Language Police”). It has over 5,700 followers, while following 596. I’d like to find other interesting people to follow, especially if their comments have these characteristics: 1) The tweets relate to the person’s work or area of expertise. 2) They should be shared regularly, but not constantly—dozens of tweets per day would be too much to cope with. 3) Insightful language is always a plus. What kind of tweeters do I not want to follow? 1) Those who blab about TV shows, pass along tired jokes, or talk only about their own output. 2) Celebrity tweets, celebrity news, and retweets of the same. 3) Virtual brown-nosing. In the Savon Sanomat newspaper Jouko Juutilainen wrote on Friday that “Tuomas Enbuske and Alexander Stubb are taking up all the space in Finnish Twitter; there’s already enough of their gabble in the other media.” To me, this is a strange comment. The tweet stream you see is made up of voices that you chose to follow. Do you have suggestions of people who belong in my stream?

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