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This is not a “happy” post. I am just explaining how I feel about a certain nature of some ( read many ) twitizens, they follow you just because you followed them, or they follow you, to make you follow them.
Should I follow you just because you followed me ? Is it the only way to say thanks to my new follower ? Of course not, an RT, or a Direct message will do. But still, people do follow back. Are you expecting someone to follow you back, just because you followed them ?
Okay, let me make this clear. I will follow people only if their tweets are useful or good or nice etc. ie, if I am interested in what they tweet about. If you are following me, thank you, thank you very much, but don’t follow me just because I followed you, but only if my tweets are useful to you !
ain’t that fine people ?
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I think thats the fundamental premise of twitter. To follow when you find it of some ‘value’ !
But like all things in life, there is mad rush towardsd showing off number of followers, number of tweets, number of … that i can quite get !
And so there are tweets like, ‘dont try to trick me to follow you and then unfollow. I will also unfollow’ !
Frankly, i tweet. Follow. Retweet. And just roll on. And if i find somebody interesting, i just follow with no expectations of a ‘follow’ ! It just doesnt matter if somebody is going to follow me back or otherwise !
Life is ruined with this ‘expectation in return’ business.
And that last line, is not necessarily limited to twitter !
Though i hardly go to twitter these days, i follow people who follow me. But then, my tweets are protected so i allow only those whom i wish to follow.
I stopped going to twitter mainly coz i didnt have much to contribute!!
.-= sakhi´s last blog ..Kaareegari… =-.
hmm..how Am I supposed to know if it is useful or not , unless I follow you and read your tweets for a while
.-= vishesh´s last blog ..In the end, I walk this road alone =-.
No, you don’t follow everyone that follows you. Its up to you to decide.
.-= Suda´s last blog ..An Interesting Conversation =-.
@ Kavi
yes, if you are worried only about being a good twitizen and not about number of people you follow or your followers, you are good enough
when you start worrying about number of followers, that becomes an issue … people who follow you just because you followed them bring no value to your twitter life.
@ sakhi
sometimes silence is the best we can contribute .. that’s not bad either ..
@ vishesh
hmm, if their tweets are not protected, you can go ahead and read few tweets, or read their bio .. and yes, you can unfollow after trying out
@ Suda
right
Well I hardly follow people on my own unless its someone I know from blogosphere. People follow me and I go to their profile. If I find their bio and latest tweets interesting then I follow them.
But doesn’t that happen in our blogs also at times?
.-= amit´s last blog ..The funny(?!?) flowers are here =-.
@ amit
very very true
this is a great read, very informative