Twitoria - How Many Twitter Friends Are You Really Following? How to Decide Who to Follow on Twitter. I have had several conversations lately about how to use Twitter and how to decide who to follow. I know everyone has a different methodology and goal when using Twitter. Here is mine. I have gmail filter, label and auto archive emails from Twitter and I go through them every week or so. Any of the following disqualifies the account for a follow: the default avatar10,000 followers or morebusinessessocial media expertsmarketing expertsno biono real nameprivate account Of course as these are my rules I have broken them all at least once I’m sure. :-) Other than that I look at the bio, the link if there is one and recent tweets. I try to keep the number of people I follow around 250 and absolutely wont go over 300.
How do you decide who to follow? Other strategies and tips: Similar Posts: TwitterHIT.net - Find Twitter Friends & Followers Easily. TweepDiff – compare friends or followers of two accounts « Every. Do you unfollow those that don't follow back? TweetSum :: Digest your followers. TwitterSheep. How to get 100s of new Twitter followers. 7 Traits of Bad Twitter Follows | Meryl.net. I hit 2000 “following” on twitter. Yet, I discovered more brilliant people I wanted to follow and couldn’t because I hadn’t reached 2000 “followers”. This compelled me to do way early spring cleaning of my twitter account. Twitter puts this in place to minimize spammy accounts. It would be nice if it would use math instead of a flat 2000 number. The chiseling process amazed me as I found that I followed people that I wouldn’t follow today. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. I do make sure the person has “settled in” twitter by looking at the followers and updates because not everyone immediately adds a picture as it takes a little time to figure out all of twitter’s features.
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