yea, I just use Who Doesn't Follow You on Twitter | Friend or Follow to keep an eye on the unfollowers and decide whether to unfollow them. I particularly dislike the ones that follow you but then unfollow so their follow count is minimal.
Twitter really needs to break out of that huge broadcasting mode imo, will be hard to change it though!
The latter is a good point I suppose. I've used that thing and was surprised to find that 130 of the people I follow don't follow me back. I talk drivvle so it's not really a surprise!
Facebook has more features and in general terms is better for business to consumer and brands. But Twitter more powerful in making personal connections and developing relationships so good for freelancers. I've met several people on Twitter who have become 'face to face' friends and have picked up clients too.
However, there is overlap between the top and scope for most businesses to make them work. But as a social media consultant I would say that :-)
Anyone else think that naming and 'shaming' your unfollowers on twitter is a little... pathetic?
A lot of those kind of tweets are from automated tools.
I must admit I have had a few rants at people that play the follow unfollow game. Of course, there isnt really any point apart from it makes me feel better
Now a days, if I see someone with a million followers who is hardly following anyone back I give them a miss and its the same with people without hardly any tweets, spammy tweets, affiliate links, too much self promotion, make money IM'ers, and in your face MLM
But Twitter more powerful in making personal connections and developing relationships so good for freelancers.
I find that twitter is great for making first contact, sharing and following, however, it is difficult to build meaningful relationships without third-party tools for taking the conversation to other platforms.
There is definite benefit to having a low follow count - it's not easy to follow lots and lots of people.
For this reason I only follow people who I genuinely think have posts that are useful and/or interesting to me. Someone following me doesn't mean that I'm necessarily going to follow them.
I want to reduce the noise and make sure what I view is useful to me. You can't be prey to the follow/unfollow game if you don't follow every single person who follows you as an automatic twitter habit.
It's pretty silly saying who un followed you I think I feel that Twitter should be about sharing useful information to those who want to receive it, I try not to feel insulted when people don't want to follow me back because at the end of the day I'm interested in their tweets and it's just my tough luck if they aren't interested in mine
I say this from a business perspective, rather than using Twitter for friendship.
Unfollowing should be nothing more offensive than turning a TV channel off. Sometimes you just don't want to watch the footie! Quite why people need to name and "shame" is beyond me. andicrook's right though - most are automated, but it just makes them look like a tool.
There is definite benefit to having a low follow count .
I agree, however, people that follow few people and have loads of followers are often the same people that play the follow, unfollow game.
Basically, they are trying to make themselves look more like gurus, celebrates or generally more popular, ie people that get a lot of followers naturally,when in reality they are nobodies trying to fake it.
However, I found out that a lot of celebraties and twitter experts have been buying followers
I agree, however, people that follow few people and have loads of followers are often the same people that play the follow, unfollow game.
Yes, this will be one sign of a person who plays this game, but not in every case.
I most definitely don't play that game and never have, but my followers count is three times the size of those I follow. So please don't look at people with a differential like this and presume that they all play that silly game
I think that "naming and shaming" unfollowing is very lame, but to pick up on a few comments above about low following v followers. I have a higher following than follow, but that is because I use lists to manage who I want to "follow" and not have so much noise on my general time line. I'd call that managing my account correctly
Basically, you don't have to follow someone to follow them on a list . That way, when I want to catch up on what is happening with a particular group of people I watch that list. Then when I am on the road and using Twitter on my mobile my time line is manageable and those I follow I can easily interact with, which is what it's all about.
I have stopped following people though who as soon as I started following them they started spamming me "offers" by DM, and have also unfollowed people who haven't interested me. It is my choice to change the channel as Mark says
@****** unfollowed me today
