It’s great to have a lot of followers on Twitter because it means other people are interested in what you’re thinking or doing. At the same time, it’s also important to recognize it’s also pretty easy to get unfollowed, particularly if you do some of the following:
1. Broadcast your location. Why anyone really needs to tell other people where they’re located is puzzling but is it necessary to tell the entire world you’re at Joe’s Bar at 421 Main St. in Tuscon?
2. Talk about your cat, the hangover you’re suffering from, the weather or what kind of day you’re having or going to have.
3. Comment on something without providing a link to provide context.
4. Suffer from tweet-a-rhia in which you feel the need to tweet dozens of times a day. No one, including your closest friends, is interested in hearing that much about your life. And if you do feel the need to consume that much digital real estate, write a blog post to cover all the bases.
5. Send out of a flurry of tweets back-to-back-back, which suggests you’ve automated your tweets to appear at a certain time as opposed to either doing them manually or spacing them out throughout the day.
6. Generate automated tweets rather than hand-crafting them. Twitter is about authenticity, not automation.
7. Use obscenities or make sexist/racist tweets.
8. Over using Twitter as a way to broadcast that a new blog post has been published. I can handle the spotlight being put on a few good ones but some large blogs user Twitter for every single post – good, bad or indifferent.
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How to Get Unfollowed 101
1. Broadcast your location. Why anyone really needs to tell other people where they’re located is puzzling but is it necessary to tell the entire world you’re at Joe’s Bar at 421 Main St. in Tuscon?
2. Talk about your cat, the hangover you’re suffering from, the weather or what kind of day you’re having or going to have.
3. Comment on something without providing a link to provide context.
4. Suffer from tweet-a-rhia in which you feel the need to tweet dozens of times a day. No one, including your closest friends, is interested in hearing that much about your life. And if you do feel the need to consume that much digital real estate, write a blog post to cover all the bases.
5. Send out of a flurry of tweets back-to-back-back, which suggests you’ve automated your tweets to appear at a certain time as opposed to either doing them manually or spacing them out throughout the day.
6. Generate automated tweets rather than hand-crafting them. Twitter is about authenticity, not automation.
7. Use obscenities or make sexist/racist tweets.
8. Over using Twitter as a way to broadcast that a new blog post has been published. I can handle the spotlight being put on a few good ones but some large blogs user Twitter for every single post – good, bad or indifferent.