Has it increased the amount of interaction on your swell? Has it had no impact at all? Are you very strategic when you get to that point where you get ready to post your swell and you can start inviting people, are you very strategic, or do you just like that one, that one, that one, that one, that one? I don't know who any of these people are. Invite, invite, invite
I don't know how many people are following me right now, but it's almost meaningless because people are following with the same mentality, I think, from what is done on other platforms, if you follow me. If I follow you, you'll follow me. Or at least that's the thinking, right? And that's not how I operate
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 4:32
So I had a really popular Swell that I posted recently about video gaming because I am a gamer and I think along the lines of what you said. Christina the thing that sort of itches my nerve here is that before someone invites and maybe the developers could work on a way of sort of previewing or maybe having a more dense algorithm to show what the person you follow. What hashtags or what channels they're typically choosing for their post to align those posts. Right?
Heather Reynolds
@HeatherR · 1:41
Hey, guys. I loved hearing your thoughts about this. Trevor. As you know, we started this at the same time together again, so I have I'm pretty much in the same place you are right now. Like, what's up? What's going on? On? So, yeah, I mean, at first, I was like, oh, you know, maybe this person somehow knows who I am, even though, wait a minute, I don't know who they are
Trevor Hammack
@tjh · 4:52
Wait a minute, christina, are you telling me that the number of followers I have on Swell is absolutely meaningless? It doesn't signify anything? Is that what you're telling me? Is that what I just heard? That those numbers mean absolutely nothing? Because I have a chart on my refrigerator that keeps track of how many followers I have on Swell. I look at it every single day. I'm like, I'm doing really good. Look, man, I'm significant
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:50
I will sometimes see what people think about it, but other times it's just as fun to just post it with no invites. I find the results to be mixed. It's practically the same thing, but on occasion it can be different because the biggest invites you get are when it's in trending or it gets featured. That's the biggest invite you can get to everyone. And even then, I don't know if that really makes that much of a difference either
Trevor Hammack
@tjh · 0:51
Excuse me? You're really taking this opportunity to announce to everyone on Swell that you're not faithful, that you're cheating on me, that you're actually listening to other people. I thought we had a friendship here. Right. You're running around now, listening to just anyone. Just anyone. I'll listen to them. You're just walking by. Oh, I'll listen to you. You're just anyone. You're just throwing yourself at everyone
Heather Reynolds
@HeatherR · 0:22
Perhaps your most popular post yet and you take this opportunity to pick on me? What are you doing? Are you nuts? Don't ruin a good post. Yes, I am cheating on you. I am listening to lots of other people and who lots of other good posts. And guess what? Some of them I have listened to or because I was invited
Yours did not come across that way, and I apologize for tainting it. But I appreciate your humor and bringing the conversation forward, and I look forward to more
Trevor Hammack
@tjh · 2:55
You as my co host, you have a responsibility, dare I say a duty that if I'm ruining a good post, you're supposed to come along and fix it. You're supposed to come along and improve it. You're not supposed to just call me out in front of everyone, use your inside voice. But seriously, in a roundabout way, I think you've just added to this absolutely amazing post that, for the record, I started
Heather Reynolds
@HeatherR · 1:05
But I do think that the intention is, generally speaking, to get you to reply. My guess is that's why they're inviting. I don't know. I suppose some could have one intention and another could have another intention. But what I was not trying to do was to encourage you to start inviting everybody on swell. That was not what I was doing. But I am curious about what most people think is the intention of an invite. I think it's what you originally thought