Lately I’ve been “cleaning up” my followers and followings on Twitter. If you want to follow me, be a real person and not a bot; also, follow me because you like me tweets, not to hope I will follow you back. I’ve also unfollowed a few people I’ve been following for a while; which is the main idea behind this short article.
I mainly use Twitter to follow and connect with like-minded people. If your tweets don’t tickle my toes the right way, I’m sorry, I’ll unfollow you. Also, I don’t mind if you pitch your blog, as I do it myself, but constantly promoting your blog and/or company can be a bit boring and uninteresting.
At the moment I’m only following 59 persons, and probably only half of them contribute daily; still I find it hard to be able to keep track of all their tweets.
I read tweets as I read books. I want to absorb all the information, even if the information is maximum 140 characters. I also want to take part of what the tweeple are tweeting. So when I see people following 100+, I’m curious if they actually manage to read all their updates.
It’s probably because I’m an introvert. I don’t want to skim through information, I want to absorb it and understand it. It’s also my way showing respect to what they are posting, showing that what they post I really want to read, not just skim through and pretend I care.
With that said, don’t take it personally if I unfollow you. If I see a movie or read a book and don’t like it, the writer of that movie or book should not take it personally, because it wasn’t my cup of tea. We are all different and we have different interests.
Peas…






