Panigram Twitter Following Policy

Panigram Resort has recently joined the thousands of other microbloggers on Twitter.com. I feel that this is a great tool for disseminating small, interesting bits of information about my project and Bangladesh. 

I still have a lot to learn about using Twitter effectively (for example, on my second day I accidentally spammed everyone because I didn’t know that a message sent using the “@” went out to all my followers!), but I hope you will stick with me through the growing pains.

One challenge that I have had this week is whether or not to reciprocate follows (follow people who have followed me). I read a few online articles on the topic and one person (Guest Potter in his blog: “To Follow or Not to Follow; that is the Question”) suggested that I examine my goals and create a “following policy”. This seemed like sound advice to me, so here are my goals for using Twitter:

1. Disseminate interesting bits of information about Bangladesh
2. Update interested parties on the status of my resort development
3. Exchange information and ideas with other people who are interested in socially and environmentally responsible development

Goal #3 requires that people be able to contact me on Twitter. Since from what I understand, you can only contact someone who is following you, I have elected to adopt this Following Policy:

1. I will follow (almost) everyone who follows me
2. I will follow you if  you engage me in meaningful conversation
3. I will NOT follow you if you are abusive or try to sell me something
4. I use various tools to filter my Twitstream, so I may not see your tweets unless you @ me or include a keyword that I look for
5. I will try to reply quickly to all @ messages, but please be patient
6. I welcome inquiries about my resort or Bangladesh
7. I reserve the right to amend this policy without notice

You are welcome to give me feedback on this policy. I want to be fair and respectful to my followers while at the same time acknowledging that it is not physically possible for me to read the tweets of hundreds of people a day. (I have to devote some of my time to actually building the resort! )

To follow Panigram Resort on Twitter, click here.