I find it amusing when people follow me on Twiter, they’d expect me to follow them back! And when they find out that I don’t follow back, very soon they’ll un-follow me. Please understand that Twitter is a social media site. If I find nothing in common with you, why must I follow you back and get ’social’ with you? Oh please…. follow back is not an obligation.
I vet my followers manually. And if I don’t follow you back, here are some reasons:
- Your bio is a complete blank. There’s nothing about you, about what you do and where you’re from. Worse still, your profile picture is the default Twitter one-small-and-one-big-circle avatar!
- Your web bio is a link to an affliate site, some get rick quick scheme or pornographic site.
- You precede or follow every one of your tweets with a link to your own site.
- You consistently use vulgarity or foul language.
- You have thousands of followers and followings and yet less than a hundred tweets. It’s a dead giveaway that you’re using some bots to boost your follower’s count (a.k.a your ego).
- You joined Twitter for less than a month and yet have thousands of followers and followings. Another dead giveaway that your bot is in action!
- Your name is of complete opposite gender from your profile picture. Duh?
- We have nothing in common. So why bother?
I repeat. Twitter is a social media site. Not a place for people to flaunt their followers count. I’m not impressed with numbers. I’d rather follow someone who only has 50 followers and yet is an engaging Tweep than someone who has tens of thousands of followers but do nothing more than just tweeting power quotes or RT-ing other Tweeps. Remember the ’social’ in social media sites!
Best regards,
Melvin Neo
PS: The above 8 reasons are all that I can think of for now. Some may have slipped my mind. If you have more, please do not hesitate to add to it. Thanks!
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Hey Audrey,
Thanks for informing. I’ve just checked and found out that some of them had me ‘auto-followed’ them! I really don’t know know how that happened. But I’ve already unfollowed them. Thanks for the heads up!
Actually, this phenomenon happened a few days ago and it happened again. Check my tweet history and you know I’ve tweeted it before.
Twitter is not so secured, is it?
C’mon, I just saw your following, LOL, and I think that you don’t really stick to your own rules. Too many craps too just like most of us.
Great points, will RT this
Hey Karen,
Thanks for the input! I appreciate it.
Hey Bill,
I’m glad this post speaks to you. Based on the amount of RTs I got from my tweet, I think it speaks to many too! I simply don’t understand why so many people are more interested in follow-ship than fellowship.
Great points Melvin. I often wonder why I followed back some of the people that followed me. Might be time to clean house a little bit.
I think you’re right in the fact that Twitter is a social tool and there are just some profiles you don’t need to be social with.
Giving you two more to make it a perfect 10.
9. Because you keep on follow and unfollow me to get to top of my list.
10. Your list of tweet is a repeat of the same tweet, in short you are using it to blast advertisement, twitter is about engagement. “,)
My two biggest frustrations:
When I @reply or DM someone with a question, I expect a reply back as I extend the same courtesy to follow-up with anyone who contacts me.
I don’t care how ‘busy’ someone is … if you’re only committed to a one-way conversation on Twitter than you’re NOT committed to what being on Twitter is all about.
Relationships are the fuel that powers it all.
|B