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:
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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:
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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.
The I Will (Probably) Not Follow You by ZombieSkittles, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
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