Can Anyone Really Follow 131000 People on Twitter

Posted by keepupweb under Social Media
From http://keepupwiththeweb.com 261 days ago

On September 2nd, 2011, Chris Brogan unfollowed all 131,000 of his Twitter followers. Do you have a social media strategy for sites like Twitter?

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Written by businessavante
261 days ago

Yesterday I checked Twitter - I had loads of @tweets from freaks & weirdos I'd never accepted - I had to go through & block them one-by-one (none of them count as followers, but they can junk up your page in no time). I'd say Twitter is the single biggest unregulated spam stream in the Universe. I see more crap from spammers & weirdos on my page than real content from the ones I follow. It's nothing but a giant garbage heap. Will they ever bother to clean house?? (Chris Brogan cleaned house - I commend him on it.)

There may be a use for searches, customer service, and questions on Twitter - but it's a pure crap-fest otherwise.

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Written by m4bmarketing
261 days ago

Hi Sherryl, I do wonder what was the experiment. What I found a bit sad was a number of the people commenting were nearly pleading for him to follow them again.

I only check about once a week who follows me as I have found those that are just looking for numbers or spammers unfollow you within a couple of days if you don’t auto follow them. It looks like your approach is really working for you which is great.

BTW congratulations on being BizSugar contributor of the week.

Susan

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Written by businessavante
261 days ago

What? He couldn't keep up with a mere 131,000 followers?? (Told ya so!!) Too many spam DMs - who'd a' guessed? (me)! Thanks for the info, Sherryl.

Duncan

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