Dan Zarrella and Self Reference

On Dan Zarrella’s blog today we were looking at a new post talking about self reference and  followers.

Basically, what you see in the chart below and the link to his post  is when people are on twitter or on any other social network the way to gain more followers is to talk less about yourself.  We already know this.  If you go to a party, the more you talk about yourself the less people are interested in what you have to say.

This is particularly true on twitter, the people that have more followers tend to talk less about themselves and more about events, news and relevant information that fits in context with their followers.

So keep that rule in mind when posting on your blog or any other social networks.  Talk less about yourself and more about things that are interesting to the people that might want to follow you.

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