6 reasons why i’m just not into you (on twitter)
Over the last few months the number of people I’m following an
d in return are following me has more than doubled.
Managing my following / follower ratio has become part of my weekly routine in order to keep my tweet streams more interesting and relevant for me.
With that in mind, I’ve come up with 6 reasons why i won’t follow you back, or why I may unfollow you on twitter:
- You have no avatar / picture uploaded of yourself. Unless I’m self-subscribing to a news feed (like the NY Times), I have no interest in following people back who can’t make the effort to personalize their space
- You’re wearing a suit with a tie in your avatar picture. Since i’ve turned off email notifications for new followers (it was getting too many to manage!), I now rely on tweepular to help me figure out who I should follow back. 9 times out of 10, those with suits and ties are spammers, liars, or just really boring
- Your bio includes some reference to making money, affiliate marketing and being a life coach of some sort
- Your profile name is not really a name. If i can’t identify you as a brand or person, chances are you are a spammer, liar, or somebody that won’t be adding much to the conversation. There are exceptions to this rule – but i follow it 8 times out of 10.
- You haven’t posted a tweet in over a week. Chances are if you haven’t posted in over a week you have either given up on twitter, haven’t figured twitter out, or you are just not interesting enough to have something to say
- Your follower / following ratio is way out of wack. If you are following 10,000 people but only 32 are following you back, that’s a major flag that you are a spammer, liar, or somebody who just doesn’t get it yet
Was that too harsh?
What are some of the reasons why you won’t return any follow love on twitter?
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I unfollow people that tweet too often. I don’t want my whole page loaded with one tweeters updates.
Good post Phil. One additional reason could be those people who lock their profile. I always block those who follow me, but do not allow me to see their full profile.
i have found that most of those people you wouldn’t start to follow rarely post anyway.
i admit that i go weeks without filtering and adding new people that are follow me… then outta guilt i just add everybody (except people wearing bikinis). then i let tweetdeck columns sort it out. of course i have a 10th of the followers
In my little tweeter experience, I find that 9 out of 10 people that tweet often, i.e. many tweets a day, are usually spammers or want to get noticed or dont have anything better to say. Exact opposite of item #5.
Pretty elaborate list. I just checked out the tweet stream to decide if I want to follow someone back or not, bu then again, I'm not getting overwhelmed by notification mails
Pretty elaborate list. I just checked out the tweet stream to decide if I want to follow someone back or not, bu then again, I'm not getting overwhelmed by notification mails
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