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The You, the Me, and the We – How I’m Changing How I Use Twitter

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader

Sep 30, 2009

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I accidentally unfollowed all my followers.

I was testing out the unfollow all feature on my site, SocialToo.com, and just happened to hit the “delete all friends” button by mistake without realizing it. For that, I apologize. I learned something valuable from it though – out of the 23,000 people I unfollowed on accident, I was very surprised at the number of people that have auto-unfollow on by default. About 6,000 to be exact. So out of the 23,000 people following me 1/4th of those probably still have no clue I unfollowed them – 6,000 people following me had a meaningless relationship with me!

There’s more though – I post a lot of links to my profile. A lot of those promote other people. Some promote blog posts I write. In general, for the blog posts I write, I generally only get about 20-50 of you on Twitter that actually click on the links! That’s a depressing number coming from a follower base of 23,000 people.

This got me thinking about how I can build stronger relationships with the people I follow. How do I get people to add me to their whitelist

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Comments (2)

Nat014,

Oct 01, 2009

like the basis of your experiment. It all omes down to quality, better to good quality followers than impressive number that does not really mean anything. Thanks for sharing.

Girlintheforest,

Oct 01, 2009

I have always really wondered at the usefulness of using automated software to add followers and so far have preferred to just use Twitter naturally without any added software. I will probably change that at one point but when I have time to research and ensure that I am not allowing automation which can run away with itself!