Ok, so I made a post around a week ago which briefly summed up my following habits on Twitter. However, no more than a day after writing that, I found myself going against what I said, and followed an additional 50 people who were following me. At first I contemplated deleting that post and pretending it never happened, but I made a promise to myself when I made the blog that I wouldn’t delete [many] articles, and to instead just write a new post.
I’ve started going through everyone I myself follow, looking at each profile and seeing if that person is to me, worth following. I’ve been looking at:

• The number of tweets, because why would I follow someone with absolutely no tweets?
• The quality of tweets. I don’t like the idea of following someone who only tweets ads, or affiliate links, nor the idea of someone who tweets short simple sentences ALL THE TIME like “Going home”, “Eating”, etc. What are you eating? Is it good?
• Website. While this really doesn’t change anything about whether I follow you or not, I like seeing if people have a good website. I’m a sucker for blogs. And speaking of the general information area, your
• bio needs to be there; no bio, most likely no follow. And then, if I see on there talk of marketing, then I will shun you. And from what I hear from everyone else when they complain about this, not many other people like it either.

And that’s pretty much it. I’ve found myself suddenly going from following sixty to one hundred and forty people really quickly, and it’s slightly overwhelming, even at such a small number, but that’s a story for another time.

There are hundreds of articles written about Twitter scattered all over the net, and even entire blogs dedicated to the social networking website and it’s related items.
I figured I’d finally make a post about something to do with Twitter; forgive me for jumping on the bandwagon, with a post about who I follow and why.

I have noticed over my short time on Twitter, I’ve noticed the way my fo

llower count will jump up and down constantly, from people following me with the idea that I am one of those people who ‘follow for follow’, like some sort of MySpace tween, begging for people to ‘whore me’, or comment on my pictures. I’ve even had people send direct messages saying “If you follow me I will follow you”.

Dear FollowWhores; I hate you all.

This of course, has led me to come up with a system to decide what new people to follow. It’s a fairly basic system, and looks at two points:

1. The name/bio: Even if it’s only a basic bio like “20 year old youtuber”, as long as it’s something. A website is a major plus. I am a sucker for other people’s blogs and websites. If you have great content on it, you’re in with a chance. As long as you aren’t on Twitter purely to advertise (the amount of people advertising themselves as marketers irritates me), I may follow you…provided that:
2. The tweets are interesting. Spam; instant ignore. No tweets whatsoever; instant ignore. I like seeing people who will talk with everyone else, start conversations, point out interesting things floating around the internet, and so forth. You interest me or talk about things I like; you’re in. I remember the minor epidemic when Twitter was discussed on Rove Live, the hundreds of people joining the site just to say “Watching Rove”. It made me, and alot of other people, rather irritated. Consistently  boring tweets like that, which don’t take advantage of the complete 140 characters make me want to punch a small puppy.

Of course, there are exceptions, as in the case of real life friends and the like. However, this is the basic system I use when deciding whether you’re worth following.