[aresant]

Without data it's hard to agree with these "conclusions"

At very least if you are planning to change around your links based on this article give a look to Dustin Curtis' data-driven experiment on changing link names:

www.dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html

[Evbn]

Every idiot already copied Dustins conclusion and ignored his research. This article deserves an award for the most intelligent thoughtful accurate article that broke the web because its readers are idiots.

[mnicole]

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, every time I see the obligatory "You should follow me on Twitter" at the end of every blog post or Dribbble submission, the last thing I want to do is follow that person on Twitter. Commanding someone to do something they might not have done otherwise is neither friendly nor approachable and I'm much more likely to click on the Follow button in the sidebar once I'm done reading a few of their entries and getting a more thorough idea of who this person is than the one at the bottom of a single post.