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I am about to go on a bit of a rant here, just to warn you. Now don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter and concept of micro-blogging, but the Twitter-sphere has become insane! It has become spamming nightmare! Just this morning as I was going through my Twitter followers, looking for those that I believe are posting interesting content and I would like to follow, my followers were increasing faster than those I was removing… YES I remove followers!
I remove followers… GASP! Yes, as eveyone and their dog is preaching about how to increase your followers, I am removing some of mine. To me it is about “quality” and not “quantity”. If you have followers, that are not reading your tweets, then do you really have a follower? It would be like saying… If you Tweet in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, did you really Tweet at all? Some of the things that I look at when I evaluate the quality of a “potential” follower are:
- Are they a real person, i.e. is there a picture of them, do they post more than just links back to a site, etc.
- Are they Tweeting ways to increase your Twitter followers (sure sign of a spammer) or some other link generation strategy!
- Do they follow more people than would be reasonably possible, e.g. if they follow tens of thousands of people then it is a pretty good indication they are not reading the Tweets of who they are following.
- Do they follow other people of similar interests, or are they just following anyone with no real discretion as to the content.
These are just a few of things that I look at when deciding if I want to keep them as a follower, and I have no hesitation of blocking and reporting someone for spamming. I believe the quality and integrity of myself comes into question based on who I follow on Twitter, and just as importantly who I allow to follow me on Twitter! So please people of the Twitter-sphere, let’s crack down on those that are ruining Twitter for the rest of us, or it will become just another spamming – if not already so – tool like email has become!
OK, I am done my rant now, feeling much better!
2 comments ↓
I have to say I agree with you and I think a lot of people are starting to think the same way. If used correctly twitter is a magical tool as we have all discovered over the last couple of years but the problem is that people realize just how powerful it can be for building traffic and sales and they are jumping all over it spamming like you say. I have to say I fear for it at the moment and am not sure what sort of state it will be in 3 months from now
I would like to know how much sales it is really generating; traffic does not sales, you still have to convert. I know from the clients I have that Twitter doesn’t drive the majority of traffic, Facebook is usually higher with search engines still generating the most traffic. Thanks for you comment!
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