Over the last couple of days I’ve been getting random you’re being followed notices so I click on the link. Half of them wound up being suspended accounts. The other half nearly every tweet of the follower contained a link! A few seemed to actually have some conversation going on I followed them back to get a feel for them for a few days.
If all you’re using Twitter for is to spit out self-promoting links every tweet please get a life and stop randomly following people to try and get your numbers up. What’s the point of having all those followers if no one is listening? Are you trying to make up for other inadequacies? You waste everyone’s time. Now don’t get me wrong self promotion is an obvious use of twitter and I’m okay with a link or two here and there but not every OR every other tweet.
Generally if I follow someone it’s because I’ve known them for quite a while online or their conversation stream looks interesting. People I’ve known for a while I generally want to see what they are up to. For people I don’t know if they’re conversation stream looks interesting I’ll follow them for a few days and see if they say anything useful, funny, or thought provoking.
Wake up folks Twitspam is just as annoying as email spam.
