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To Follow or Not to Follow, That is the Question, a Post from R. Clint Peters

  • R. Clint Peters, Author
  • Dec 3, 2014
  • 1 min read

Have you recently checked your Twitter account, specifically the numbers under FOLLOWING and FOLLOWERS?

The Author’s Club on Twitter, http://www.twitter.com/authors_club, is following 1925 and is being followed by 1844.  What does that indicate?

It’s simple:  The Author’s Club is interested in the comings and goings of 1925 Twitter accounts, but only 1844 accounts are interested in the comings and goings of The Author’s Club.

I’m not sure that’s fair.  Unless you have some specific interests, the FOLLOWING and FOLLOWERS numbers should be reletively close.  Either I should have 1925 accounts following the club or I should be following 1844.

Why?  Because every account you follow will show up in your tweets, but only the accounts that follow you will see your tweets.  I get tweets from 75 Twitter accounts that don’t want to see my tweets.  Again, I’m not sure that’s fair.

The solution is simple.  I clicked on FOLLOWING, and looked at every account I was following.  If the account is listed as following me and the blue box indicates I am following it, I leave things alone.  Otherwise, I click the blue box to unfollow.

You may want to follow Twitter accounts not following you, but that gives them a free tweet.  I put a lot of effort into Twitter and other social media.  Why should I allow other accounts to advertize on my computer monitor when they won’t let me advertize on theirs?

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