Comments on: Common sense rules on who NOT to follow on Twitter

By: therentalbug

therentalbug — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:00:23 +0000

These are very good lines of this article. “A very high number of followers but few tweet updates means the member has amassed followers using some dubious auto follow services. This means two things that are the person has obvious business interests or spamming interests and other is unlikely that I would be able to have any meaningful interaction with the member if they have thousands of followers” Nice post and thanks for back links. therentalbug

By: Authenticonlinemarketing

Authenticonlinemarketing — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:12:36 +0000

Hi there,
very nice site, i can see you have put a lot of work into it, i have being reading your posts about “rules on who to follow and who Not to follow”.

By: shalabh

shalabh — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:47:35 +0000

Nicole- it is funny- you are on my twitter- and I do follow your tweets. Realized later that I used a similar sounding example in the post- but believe me at first instance @nicole85 sounds suspicious :p

I almost used Nicole 85 in the example- (power of the subconscious mind?)- but then better sense (or consciousness) prevailed.

Thanks to Hisham for referring to the post on Twitter.

By: nicole

nicole — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:21:10 +0000

Unfortunately, I had to stick numerals to my nickname for twitter, since names like mine, or even other names are common.

I generally look at their profile before deciding to follow them back. I can’t be bothered with 0 updates and xx followers type of twitter accounts

By: shalabh

shalabh — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:58:53 +0000

@nitesh yes many a times there are snap decisions- you have a point there. It would be an interesting study to know what causes that snap decision. I suspect, on inspection, you could find one of the points mentioned in the post to be the reason

@Jonathan- Great point. I could not agree more on how irritating the auto responder tweets are. I think Twitter guys were mulling over to stop them as a policy.

Pretty useless feature if you ask me.

Luckily they come as a DM and by now I am conditioned not to read them. If someone sent a tweet to me saying “You are my loyal follower” (!)- I’d give Mr humble a piece of my mind in the open forum. Hummingbird or not

By: Jonathan Wong

Jonathan Wong — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:59:10 +0000

You’ve nailed two Twitter pet peeves of mine:

1. People who self-proclaim they are some sort of affiliate marketing rock star or life coach or guru or some combination of those terms,

2. People who’s Twitter stream is almost entirely (~80%) populated from Twitterfeed or HootSuite

Here is one more:

Normally, I will always follow someone back in Twitter unquestioned if they follow me and I think they are a real person and not a bot.

However, after I follow them, they proceed to send you an arrogant DM thanking you for being their loyal follower like this:

“Hey there! I’m humbled to have you as my loyal follower! Keep an eye out for some exciting Tweets from me, okay?”

That’s an immediate unfollow for me. Anyway, in most of these cases, the Twitter user is using an automatic follower harvesting program like Hummingbird with these pre-canned messages.

By: Nitesh Ambuj

Nitesh Ambuj — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:55:47 +0000

BTW, I forgot to mention – I’m there as @nambuj

By: Nitesh Ambuj

Nitesh Ambuj — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:54:32 +0000

Some nice observations on twittering. Just like you, i too prefer to follow people from wide spectrum though I do not have any set criteria as who to follow and who Not to follow {there might be some implicit – or may be snap decisions}..

Cheers,
Ambuj