How to cut the flab from your twitter account
Posted on | June 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Twitter is growing immensely. More and more people are joining twitter on daily basis. If you tweet daily you might have noticed growth in your followers. So as an unwritten Twitter etiquette, you follow them back. But for most of us, the number of followers is always less than the number of following.
So how to cut down the extra people we are following? It’s simple there are several twitter tools that let you mass unfollow those who don’t follow you. But that is not a solution as most of the time people don’t follow you back because your tweet does not interest them. You need to keep following the good and regular tweeters. Reply to their tweet and if possible retweet. This will help you maintain good relations and maybe after some time they might chose to follow you.
In order to reduce the number of following without losing out important one way or two way relations you can do the following things.
- Unfollow your disinterested friends: Let’s face it most of the people join twitter due to its hype. Most of your friends might have joined it and then used its find friends through email feature to follow you. You return the favor by following them. But alas, your friends don’t go beyond the step 1 i.e. account creation. They have hardly tweeted and then they quit twitter. All you have to do is unfollow them but they would continue to follow you as they will never check their account. Hence, you can reduce the disparity between your followers and following.
- Unfollow Celebrity tweeters: You might be following several celebrities’ tweeters from Ashton Kutcher to CNN. Are you really interested in their tweets? Due really care what Ashton is doing? These tweeters will never follow you back. Many online companies like Google have twitter accounts. Google has accounts for most of its services like Adsense, too. They make tweet several announcements. But it is same as the one made on their blogs. So, if you have subscribed to the RSS feed of their blogs, you don’t really have to follow them on twitter.
- Unfollow spammers: Many people join twitter with the aim of promoting products so as to gain affiliate commissions. You follow them in the beginning after they follow you but then you realize that the person is just a spammer. If you are a good tweeter, doing it once a while, is acceptable. But these spammers just continue to tweet affiliate links. Unfollow them and you know what ,they would continue to follow you. Hence, you have managed to reduce your following keeping your followers constant.
- Unfollow Trends tweeters: If you are following several tweeters who tweet trending topics on twitter then just unfollow them. If necessary, keep only one. But now since Twitter displays trending topics on your home page then it is not necessary.
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June 17th, 2009 @ 6:03 pm
Hey, great post, really well written. You should post more about this.
July 6th, 2009 @ 7:43 pm
Hello. I think the article is really interesting. I am even interested in reading more. How soon will you update your blog?