At least a few times a week now, I'll reply to someone who shares a general tweet - something basic, no link, maybe even a question. You know, jump into a conversation. So far - crickets. And that's from people tweeting in real-time. Maybe they don't know me, maybe they haven't noticed when I've RT'd them. Or perhaps too many of us - myself included - are so busy gaming our social shares we forget to be social. IDK.

What I do know is that, aside from a handful of scheduled tweets, if I'm on social I'm on. If I don't engage in real time, I make it a point to follow up later. My Twitter client of choice is TweetDeck - b/c it lets me filter a lot of the preprogrammed feeds and noise that people robotically schedule; adding Commun.it to the list. FWIW.