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Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Dieter — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:28:42 -0000

I could not agree more. I have quit auto following and are now working on removing people who publish stuff I'm not interested in. I want to use twitter for something useful and find stuff I'm interested in. I'm so tired of those "how to get 10 000 followers in three days" posts.

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

suzanneholman — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:30:34 -0000

I can not get auto follow to stop!
I've eliminated all outside apps in my connections.
Any suggestions?

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

MyArmyLife — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:26:48 -0000

I am not a fan of the auto-follow as it seems to defy the whole point of Twitter ... to social network with those you want to follow. Somehow, my account keeps following folks I have not chosen, though. It's NOT an auto-follow of those that follow me, it's pulling people that are NOT following me and many that I do not want to follow. Do you know any ways to see why this is happening and how to stop it? I keep running into walls getting help from Twitter support. Anyone who can help, I'd appreciate it!

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Jennifer Moore — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:38:27 -0000

I do NOT auto-follow. I think it's obnoxious. I see who's following me and I look at their profile and their last few Tweets. If I see someone I think I have stuff in common with or who just has interesting things to say, I'll follow them back. If they are a spammer, they get blocked. (Except for other online sellers that move in my circles. People in those circles who only post updates about what they are selling just don't get followed back.)

Every once in a while, you DO have a conversation via Twitter. That's why I'm there. It's not about how many followers I can get.

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Mark Petticord — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:08:12 -0000

David, Great Post. I completely agree. I am constantly weeding out idiots and prostitutes. I think Twitter can be a great way to communicate but the best way to describe it is millions of ticks without a dog. It's a freeking feeding freenzie every day. I agree more quality targeted followers that actually care about reading your tweet is better than showing useless numbers. thanks, mark

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Robert Garcia — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:42:24 -0000

Hi David,

I agree with what you are saying because I've been using auto follow with Tweetlater but like you are saying, it doesn't matter how big your Twitter List is if nobody is reading your tweets...I do go into my Twitter account every once in a while and unfollow people"Like those porn stars" you are talking about and other people that I see are only on there to spam me. I'm going to take more time and go through all my followers and actually check their profile to see what they are all about and then just follow the interesting people and from now on I'm going to turn off the auto follow and start building a more targeted Twitter list of followers by replying back personally to the people that follow me.

Have a great day!

Robert

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Dennis Jernberg — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:24:06 -0000

Right now I follow 375 people and find that it's manageable. Even so, while Robert Scoble was unfollowing everybody he followed (over 100K!), I cut back to 350. Some of them were major noise generators.

I've never done autofollow, and now I know I never will. Too much trouble, really; I wouldn't want to autofollow all those porno spambots. Best to let them follow me and then auto-unfollow me.

As for your followers: It's not so much how many followers you have as how many of them listen to you. If they retweet and engage in constructive conversation, great. I wouldn't mind having 3 million followers like @aplusk, most of them fans hanging on my every word. But as for those I follow, 2,000 would probably be my upper limit, especially without groups built into Twitter.

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Gilles Vitu — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:41:33 -0000

I use auto-following and get some pornstar sometimes... so I just block them as unfollow would not be enough.

What you said is very interesting: "Neither side is reading the other! What the hell is the point?"

People hate SPAM but they like nice content.

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

John — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:13:47 -0000

I love the instaneous nature of twitter, but like all tools once destined for good (email for example) the n'er do wells and whores of all types have messed it up for the rest of us. I spend too much time laying traps and deadfalls for e-mail spam for myself and my clients. I have started using wordpress blogs in place of websites but fear comment spam. Anyway, the question is auto follow or not? I don't believe I will use it, because it's just an open door.

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Bruce Stevens — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:01:21 -0000

Right on. The madness of Twitter & the autofollow frenzy reminds me of the "safe lists" of a few years ago. Thousands of wannabe Internet Marketing moguls, all posting scads of junk that no one reads.

I know it's a numbers game, but there has to be a better way!

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Josh H — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:30:07 -0000

I at first would auto follow for the same reason that you mention. I have since changed my mind and no longer auto follow. I will only follow those that are contributing to what twitter should be. I agree with you 100%.

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Lewis Write — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:43:33 -0000

I finally did a enema on my twitter accounts, no more auto follow, and I use wefollow.com to identify twitterers I respect and share the same interest as myself. thx as always Dave.. Great post, and even better comments.

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Gee Strongbear — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:06:25 -0000

I choose to follow people or entities that seem interesting to me, but don't tweet more than about once a day, and don't seem to be into showbizzing themselves. That way, if I'm gone for a day or so, I don't come back to find pages of meaningless junk tweets.

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Rhonda Hess, Coaching Business — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:33:39 -0000

Another great post, David. I've never autofollowed -- glad that was a good call.

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

PeterM — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:24:11 -0000

When I started on Twitter, I had serious concerns about using auto-follow (basically the same ones you described in your article), so I decided not to use this function right from the beginning. It's good to see so many confirmations, that the decision was right.

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Shane — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:08:45 -0000

I'll be honest I don't care how many spammers follow me or for how long. I don't care how many egotists follow me for a follow back. I don't often check my followers list to see just who is following me or to block undesirables. Really what a waste of time. Those who follow me who matter will be meet in my feed and they will meet me in theirs.

I have previously auto followed but have also come to the conclusion that it is not productive. I do agree that I need to prune my following list and will when time permits. I don't however care about my followers list. I do care about my followers. And as you point out David, Followers and ones followers list is not one and the same.

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Floyd Celluloyd — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:58:38 -0000

I don´t use auto-follow, because it is not in my interest in following everyone. i want to follow by topic, so if someone is writing good interesting stuff I will follow. If things (networks) grow, problems getting bigger and bigger.

I don´t care about the number of my followers. Better to have a few good followers than 10000 who suck. (sorry:-))

Compare it to real life. Do you talk to 1.000 people a day to find new friends? no.

so let´s get connected in a good way, not by numbers.

Floyd

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Norman Rockwell Art — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:42:19 -0000

I also have yet to start using Twitter. It is great to know not to Auto-follow. You have saved me countless hours unfollowing spammers and wading through useless tweets to find the meaningful ones.

I think I will be following you, though. Thanks

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Lewis Write — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:23:38 -0000

I agree auto-follow sucks big time. Twitter like most good things is now so full of people focused on how many followers they can get. I have a pen name twitter account that has over 12,000 followers. This was no over night effort, it actually took a whole year to do. I measure the effectiveness of my following by using cligs to track my twitter post, everytime I post I am seeing over 500 instant clicks to the subjects i am talking about. Quality not quantity. thx/lew

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Kevin Baker — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:24:06 -0000

Hi David,

Whilst I agree on principle that Twitter can be a spammy site, its not as bad as some others I could name.

I do "Auto Follow" but i vet all my followers and i vet those who are not in a particular niche, Like well Blogging for example. I use a number of tools and some have cost me a great deal of money to obtain. But they do work.

I am not into the Huge numbers game that most are and at the last count i had around 1800 followers and i was following about the same. I know i cannot possibly read all my tweets and Dm's or even half but i do care about those in my niche and who are genuinly trying to grow a business.

So I understand your rant and i sympathise. But for now I will continue as I am and hope its enough.

Thanks for sharing your insight.

Kevin

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

SZ — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:48:12 -0000

Those whores are smart enough to use that kind of technology? Just kidding. But seriously almost all social networks are like that. Especially MySpace. My MySpace account with over 20,000 friends got deleted just because I made one innocent bulletin about a free contest on my site. I've seen lots of people do this. Well, apparently it's against MySpace rules. Yet, they let all these web-cam sluts with their thousands of "friends" stay on there while they spam people to visit their sites. I've read Myspace's rules, and they claim this is not allowed... yet they're overpowered by these whores. Of course they're gonna let them stay, they bring MySpace a lot of traffic. I can't believe Twitter is turning into that now.

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Gandree — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:37:43 -0000

I do not autofollow anyone. Twitter can be fun to use and a useful tool but not if it is cluttered up with junk. I use a program that pops tweets to my desktop so that I can keep up with my friends without having to stop and go check it. Yes, I miss some but I'm not a slave to it either. If someone gets overzealous in their posting, I simply drop them. Life's too short to worry about it. On the flip side, following someone for a while lets me know if I want to know more about them. We reveal a lot in our tweets.

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

DeAnn — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:49:14 -0000

I can see twitter being used as an announcement ie: I have just added "this product" to my etsy store, or just posted a new blog @website. I can also see twitter being used as a personal event format. "A squirrel just jumped over my fence and ate the corn". Not earth shattering, but a personal event. I can see twitter being used as a newspaper, ie: Hey David Risley just posted about twitter, I am in agreement with him, find him here (http://www.davidrisley.com/... and see if you don't agree.
Yes, twitter has been viral. No, I do not auto-follow never did. Yes, I stop following people that post every few seconds filling my page with garbage. No, I won't toss it out (not yet). Yes, twitter can be a time waster, it takes time to go through your list to find the ones that you really care about. So question is, why do you follow the ones that you do not care about. Human nature is strange, we all want to connect in some way or another. Hey, I think this comment qualifies as a blog post, hehe. Great day to all!

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Are Morch — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:34:51 -0000

Great article here David.

I guess we all have at one time done the same mistake, and done the auto-follow. And yes with auto-follow you end up getting a lot of unwanted followers that don't care about you. you get like say here 'pornstars' that follow you, follow hatchers (just in there for the numbers and unfollow right after they followed you), and a large amount of these followers is also inactive.

Patrick, I don't think there is an option on Twitter at the moment for turn on/off Auto-Follow. You have to turn this off on the third party site where you set up auto-follow.

I have now focused all my efforts on doing everything manually myself, and that is also where I focus all my coaching on my blog.

I guess David you should come up with some petition that everyone could sign on that are against auto follow programs.

Cheers..

Are Morch
TwtrCoach

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Arto — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:06:52 -0000

Such applications succeed only when the original interest is in the customer satisfaction but I have noticed otherwise through my experience.

Twitter is a failing project.