Hello to all the new followers. Send me an @ message and I’ll follow back. Welcome!
Personally, I don’t believe in the idea of automatically following everyone who follows you. For one, it doesn’t mean anything when it’s a default rather than something you think about to see if the person following you is worth following back.
By that, I mean you have to assess whether someone offers posts that have valuable, useful or entertainment information, ideas, content or Web sites. If they’re simply using Twitter to talk about having coffee at Starbucks or how they need more sleep, are they really worth following?
Call me selective, picky or a Twitter snob but I’ve really tried to keep the number of people I follow under control, which is less than 200 people. Of course, many people have a much higher threshold so following 5oo, 600 or 700 people is not uncommon. What I find hard to believe are people out there with thousands of people they follow. That’s just unmanageable.
That said, people have different motivations to follow people. For some, a follow is just another way to extend their message, brand, profile or network. Since there’s little “cost” in following another person on Twitter, they’ll follow anyone and everyone with no penalty other than having a Twitter stream that overflowing.
So, what’s your approach to following people? Do you follow anyone who follows your, or are you more selective?
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Should You Follow Everyone Who Follows You?
I saw this Tweet that caught my attention today:
Hello to all the new followers. Send me an @ message and I’ll follow back. Welcome!
Personally, I don’t believe in the idea of automatically following everyone who follows you. For one, it doesn’t mean anything when it’s a default rather than something you think about to see if the person following you is worth following back.
By that, I mean you have to assess whether someone offers posts that have valuable, useful or entertainment information, ideas, content or Web sites. If they’re simply using Twitter to talk about having coffee at Starbucks or how they need more sleep, are they really worth following?
Call me selective, picky or a Twitter snob but I’ve really tried to keep the number of people I follow under control, which is less than 200 people. Of course, many people have a much higher threshold so following 5oo, 600 or 700 people is not uncommon. What I find hard to believe are people out there with thousands of people they follow. That’s just unmanageable.
That said, people have different motivations to follow people. For some, a follow is just another way to extend their message, brand, profile or network. Since there’s little “cost” in following another person on Twitter, they’ll follow anyone and everyone with no penalty other than having a Twitter stream that overflowing.
So, what’s your approach to following people? Do you follow anyone who follows your, or are you more selective?