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Very interesting post. In my 9 or 10 months on Twitter, I’ve found that the NUMBER of people in my network matters far less than the deliberate intention behind each individual connection.

In other words, if I have 300 people in my network, who I’ve collected rather quickly and randomly, without really knowing why each individual is unique and interesting to me, then I will probably feel overwhelmed by that number. A general sense of chaos will be attached to it.

But if I take my time, really examining new followers to figure out what they’re about, and maybe even holding off on following them back until there’s some sort of interaction or connection, they have a meaningful place in my network (and in my mind) from day one. It’s a much slower way to build a community, but I think being deliberate like that makes Dunbar’s limit pretty much irrelevant.

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