Comments on: Why you lose followers on Twitter

By: Anderson - RNV

Anderson - RNV — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:49:24 +0000

very nice, but I don’t do that very often, I think there might be another reason why I am losing followers.

By: AskTheOz

AskTheOz — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:23:30 +0000

OK… I’ve enjoyed reading your Posts. Terrific! However, I am siding with two (2) people on here. The Quotes are DISGUSTING! If they are ones original Quotes, OK. Copious quoting all day from someone who you know is using the Quotes to get followers is boring. Case and point! Two guys in particular starting following me (because I did not know any better, I decided to follow them too) heck I’m new to Twitter. Anyway, they started Tweeting more than me. I thought, oh, these guys are only Tweeting to get my followers. Once I unfollowed them, they disappeared which validated my point. I don’t need to follow people. Now I am only following 1 person. I am not on Twitter to follow people. I am on Tweeter to be followed because my Articles/Blogs are worth reading and to be followed. I am not about to promote other people’s Websites and Twitter pages unless I assess they are worthy to be followed. To this day, and I’ve only been on Twitter a month, I have yet to identify anyone worth following other than one person! I am currently being followed by people with whom I have some things in common. For example, all-Natural health, organic, and wholesome living. Yep, that’s it! Hope this input helps anyone who seeks out what I have to impart. All the BEST!

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:54:30 +0000

What a wonderful array of comments I have learnt a lot from all of them. Just to throw my 20 cents worth in, I joined twitter before it became a household name and LOVED the human interaction without having to write chapters.
So many different people, and I still have many of them as twitter friends and connections. I have met a couple from overseas and shared some excellent information.

twitter will be a different experience for different people and its use will reflect that. One of the reasons why it is such a democratic system of social networking.

I used to follow everyone BUT I found that I never read the ads and different languages were difficult too. Some people were on a different planet. So while I follow back most, I am more discerning now and I have started to unfollow those that who followed and then unfollowed UNLESS i find their tweets add something and can understand their reasons for keeping their follow back levels low.

there are different scenarios why people follow or unfollow and we need to be careful not to assume too much. For me I like to keep it real

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:44:14 +0000

So true, all of these! I’ve un-followed people who respond instantly to my follow with an automated message. Get personal, for crying out loud!

By: abutterflyloves

abutterflyloves — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:37:46 +0000

I think everyone that states they don’t mind the “Thanks for the follow” or “Direct Auto Reply message” must be doing the same thing to their recent followers.

I also want to add the boring person. They start off with random funny quotes, but then, just like a pop radio station we begin to see duplicates.

What goes with that annoyance, is the posters that schedule 4 or more tweets an hour, EVERY HOUR. Like they never sleep.

But I will 2nd the notion said my many others. I do not want a link to your online book on every tweet. I don’t want to know that you can get me 10,000 followers in 1 hr. I Don’t care how bright my teeth can be.

Finally, if I added you, and we go back and forth on topics, and etc, and then I see you don’t even follow me, POOF, be gone. I am not here just to feed your ego so you get a lot of replies. I see Twitter as a site to share and discuss. Not just to look for instant gratification responses to EVERYTHING you babble.

By: Skeeter

Skeeter — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:48:12 +0000

Hi Silvia,

Thanks for the comment about the article. It’s great when people like you find value in the articles we write. Keep up the great job with your Twitter account.

Thanks again for the comment,
Skeeter

By: Silvia

Silvia — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:33:02 +0000

omg! I have been cleaning up who I’m following on twitter based on the criteria you listed… prior to having read the article! I was having a bit of remorse too, b/c I was thinking, “well they are following me, it’s only fair to follow them” This just reinforced my original stance! Thanks!