Two things. The first is you must have patience. Social media represents a journey not a sprint. Second, I looked at your time line and from what I saw you may want to mention other people more, engage with them. Sometimes all it takes is a person who feels that they know you, then they are more likely to retweet you. Feel free to ask more questions. I just followed you @KidsAreHeroes.

Our interests may be closer than you think. By trade I am a software developer. As you have discovered, my real passion is with Kids Are Heroes. Regardless that doesn’t mean I only retweet things pertaining to kids. Sometimes I retweet the most innocuous of tweets that have nothing to do with kids – as long as they are interesting and/or entertaining in some way. The point is I bet I would be interested in what you do if I sat down with you and listened. At the same time I might be able to get you interested in kid heroes too!

Thanks for capturing this insight that it takes many a while to learn, but eventually we run across someone who says this (and not surprisingly you are not the first to say this). Guess what? The people who say this are the ones who are providing real content on twitter or on their blogs. These are the people worth following and worth reading.

There are people who are in “social media” who approach the world completely differently. Some of them have thousands of followers all whose goal is to have thousands of followers themselves, but none of them actually adding anything to the signal by actually writing about something in the real world.

Anyway, I don’t know if you will ever retweet me, nor if I will ever retweet you. We are kind of at the edges of each others interest list. You are trying to improve the lives of children. While, I am a nerd who care mostly about computer security. There is an overlap because protecting children on the net is probably in both our domains, but there are things that are just on one side of the intersection or the other, things that only you are interested in, or things that only interest me.

And, that is actually fine. The good news about our media is we don’t *have* to retweet each other, just because our interests overlap and we have some twitter friends in common. Still, I am happy to read what you write. And, if there is info that is to my mind of interest to my readers, I will retweet it (as you said, if I see it).

So, thank you, and best of luck,
Chris

Regarding ‘open and honest’ – is there any other way to be?

By the way – you weren’t the person who called me last week were you by any chance? A woman called me from Israel and I had to postpone the call by asking her to call me back. Sadly I never did hear back. If that was you I am sorry and please give me another chance. :)

-Gabe

Well I see that you are a realtor and let me tell you that once you see what it can do for you, you will embrace it. The down side is that you may wind up with a sink full of dirty dishes. :) I urge you to keep at it because real estate is no different than anything else. Connections are of utmost importance. Good luck!