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Re: FOLLOW FAIL: The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter

Name — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:32:38 -0000

Follow fails - those who believe they are qualified to give advice about how to use technology (other than technical trouble-shooting info)

Re: FOLLOW FAIL: The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter

Christopher McGill — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:34:31 -0000

Thanks for the post!

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Christopher McGill — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:34:05 -0000

Funny!

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jolene1020 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:09:14 -0000

I think you have the wrong person, I don't do any of the above. I don't even know what you are talking about. Plz recheck who you are repling to, thanx. Have a good day.

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Ciaoenrico — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:17:00 -0000

Thank you for this - I've been trying to explain elements of this to people for a long time now, and finally I have a one-stop shop to point them at. "There. Go read that. Don't come back until you're no longer so douchey."

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jolene1020 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:32:35 -0000

Your'e pretty mean

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WallMountedHDD — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:22:09 -0000

You expect WAY too much from your followers. And about #3...come on. Who cares? You're following them on Twitter because of what they post ON TWITTER, not because of their off-site content. That should be a bonus IF they have any. And do you really expect every average joe to spend $80 a year to $200 a month to lease server space and a domain just because it's 2009? What the fudge?! I would never expect that of most people, and I've had web space spanning angelfire, AOL hometown, shared servers, dedicated servers and even self-built servers for the past 10+ years. Ay caramba.

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Dick Schaefer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:29:52 -0000

Good advice, thank you very much. I have made offers available through Twitter for affordable advertising on my blog network http://www.leisureadvertisi... but I don't hammer people with it on every Tweet, still it's been disappointing for far as a marketing tool.

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Levi Lenaerts — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:00:08 -0000

great article. Though a lot of these things are common sense, it is good to see them summed up and backed with examples! thanks!

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Anthony James Barnett - author — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:09:59 -0000

Some good advice, well thought out and constructive. You include a couple of my pet hates too. Thanks

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jolene1020 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:05:27 -0000

Thankyou, I found this very helpful.

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Kat — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:24:39 -0000

My favourite: your name is Shelly Ryan

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Britt Reints — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:33:20 -0000

#11 (or #1 in my book):

You're boring.

If you can't figure out how to be entertaining in 140 characters or less, get off twitter.

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John — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:07:42 -0000

10 Reasons why I can care less if someone follows me:

1. Twitter is just a suck-bag publicity stunt that will soon be a has been.
2. People on twitter think we actually care what they are doing.
3. 99.999999999% of twitter is spam
4. Twitter is just a mini-version of MySpace or other social networks with nothing worth getting hyped about.
5. Who the hell are you anyway?
6. Nevermind, I can care less who you are.
7. I don't need people knowing what the heck I'm doing 24/7
8. The entire twitter site looks like it took under 24 hours to program by some noob off of getafreelancer.com
9. Scratching my hind end is more exiting than using Twitter.
10. Twitter sucks. We all know it does but it's so populated by little grade-schoolers and fat 40 year old losers that live in their mother's basement that it appears populated by more than 99 percent of the earth's population. ...So the media eats it up because those are the two demographic properties they look for in "boobs that will buy anything".

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charlieman — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:14:32 -0000

Maybe we should stablish #fridayfollowfail to show people we wouldn't follow. It warns others and also the user itself that they are not using twitter the right way.

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fas — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:18:16 -0000

Very well said, its better to follow people who will return the favour with something useful rather than a DM.

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jeezem — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:21:44 -0000

looks like we have to decide if we are leaders or followers

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Matthew Fiebig — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:07:57 -0000

I think Team Twitter made a mistake of using the word "followers". Sounds kind of cult-ish or in the least stratified like the follower is being subjugated.

For fans of celebrities it may be the most appropriate word, but in every day social situations it seems only an appropriate word to describe a stalker.

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Matthew Fiebig — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:02:05 -0000

I like that analogy Murph. lol

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bigcharles — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:02:58 -0000

My solution: I don't care about getting followers :-) I use Twitter to obtain the information I want, I interact with whom I choose to as time allows, then I go back to being productive in other ways. But an entertaining and informative post anyway - so thanks!

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Delphine Zhu — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:58:58 -0000

I couldn't agree more! Many of those reasons are why I will not follow back those followers. I'll add another one: when the website is a sales page or leads capture page without valuable soft offers.

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Delphine Zhu — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:52:01 -0000

I couldn't agree more! Many of those reasons are why I will not follow back those followers. I'll add another one: when your website is a sales page or leads capture page without valuable soft offers, I will not follow you.

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Delphine Zhu — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:27:42 -0000

I couldn't agree more! Many of those reasons are why I will not follow back those followers.

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EileenLeft — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:54:42 -0000

How about people like myself who only argue with people when it is for a good cause like health care, or making our repairing the damage humans have done to our planet. Seems like these are important for all people and for the only planet we have to call home and worth the fight if need be.
But I agree on all the other points, and have been doing the same already for a long time now.

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leighrat — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:45:24 -0000

One more addition: all of your updates are what you are eating.