Notes for Whales - Becoming a DJ

A whale is the twitter nickname for someone with more than 10,000 followers. Here are some usage notes for whales.

• The Twitter API limits services to third-party tools to 150 API calls per hour. This stops automation tools designed to service whales. Sorry ;-)
• On a daily basis, follower/following counts drop by dozens. Don't be alarmed. Twitter deletes spam accounts that lower counts for followers and followings.
• Persistent Twitter bugs and policies impact a whale's ability to follow loyal fans. Please be patient as the company attempts to resolve the problem.
• Update - Twitter's new '1,000 follow rule per day' limits your ability to return follows.
• Track what your followers say about you. Search for your name. Use the favorite tag to filter the flow for followers. See above notes about 'timeline, search, and favorite'.
• Consider being the host or DJ for a #webshow or Twitter party. Use the search guides to find and research a topic. Your show can be about music, TV, sports, news, business, stupid pet tricks, or any topic. Use #webshow to announce your schedule and topic. Tweet as the host, an actor voice, or a parody of a live TV show.
• Users click the supplied link to follow your show tweets, RTs, and invite more followers. It's fun to get the party started.
• Beware, as the DJ, you will lose followers, but gain more net per show. Radio DJs lose listeners who switch channels. They don't know the loss. Twitter DJs see drops in follows in realtime. Twitter DJs need to be hardened to the 0.01% rejection rates - a new frontier with it's new challenges.
• 25% of Twitter users have the new Twitter search, allowing them to follow your DJ chat with your audience. Unfortunately, 75% don't and hear half the conversation on your timeline. That should change, soon. Update: 100% have search.