Comments on: Why Autofollow on Twitter?

By: Increase your Twitter fan following

Increase your Twitter fan following — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:48:02 +0000

[...] Give people a reason to follow you. Why should others follow you? Because they will gain something of value by following you. Provide worth, give others a good sound reason to follow you. It could be giving out a gift, incentive for following you or simply a reason that you’ll follow them back (I know that happens a lot). See here why people auto follow on twitter. [...]

By: Regina

Regina — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:46:20 +0000

I don’t use autofollow for several reasons. First of all, there has been an increase in pornographic posts along the lines of “Check out my X-rated pix” –and several of those people have followed me and I had to block them. Second, I don’t think it is useful to follow tons of people because there is no way to keep up with all of them. Third, the items that people post have to be useful to me in some way. So I follow people who are in the health and wellness field like myself, as well as those who are in marketing or who tweet about marketing and business topics. If someone is in a field that is not related to those topics, or is tweeting about things that are not related to those topics, I generally don’t follow them. (I do follow some people who live in my city, Santa Fe, even though they don’t fall into these categories because I know them from other places.) It’s nothing personal, and I don’t think people should take it personally when someone doesn’t follow them. It’s just the most efficient way for me to use Twitter.

By: Susan Jarema (New Earth Marketing)

Susan Jarema (New Earth Marketing) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:21:31 +0000

Thanks Dave, I’ve been trying to decide what is the best recommendation for clients. My personal belief in organic SEO is against these tactics. Yet some clients really just want followers to “look successful”. It’s nice to see an experiment that shows autofollow isn’t going to make much of a difference.

By: Annette

Annette — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:17:06 +0000

I’m a newbie on this, and having a good time getting updates on people I have chosen to follow..in my profession..at one time or another, I will run across them…but…take you for example..where did YOU come from? How did you end up on my follow list? EVERY single day I wipe so many people I don’t want on there off. I hate this… It reminds me of all the folks on Facebook with thousands and thousands of ‘friends’.. what a PAIN! Great article… I think you are a keeper! Annette

By: SiBlondeleGand (SiBlondeleGand)

SiBlondeleGand (SiBlondeleGand) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:35:15 +0000

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By: Maddie Grant

Maddie Grant — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:14:42 +0000

There seems to be an interesting debate going on about this. Personally, I have realized that NOT following people does not mean you can’t converse with them. I never automatically followed people, but I did use to spend a decent chunk of time sifting through everyone to figure out if I should follow back or not (I use SocialToo so at least I only get one email with a list, instead of 25 emails a day). These things do change over time though, as your Twitter account grows. I think when you start out it’s a good idea to reciprocate, at least until you understand your own needs with regards to whom you want to follow.

By: Blogging Takes Time | Photos Of Food

Blogging Takes Time | Photos Of Food — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:41:38 +0000

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By: Chuck Hemann

Chuck Hemann — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:18:39 +0000

Dave – figured I would lob in a comment here as Twitter only allows a finite number of characters. Speaking from my own experience, I was much more likely to automatically follow someone back when I first started on Twitter. I thought, probably incorrectly, that it was the “polite” thing to do. However, at some point I realized that I was following so many folks (admittedly not as many as some, but still) that I was having a difficult time keeping track of the conversation. At that moment, I discontinued auto-following and become more selective about who I followed, or followed back.

This is the sort of post that every new Twitter user should read. It reiterates that quality is more important than quantity, particularly with a social network like Twitter.

Anyway, just my $0.02. Thanks for the post!

By: chuckhemann (chuckhemann)

chuckhemann (chuckhemann) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:03:43 +0000

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liked this post from @davefleet about why it doesn't make sense to auto-follow on Twitter [link to post]

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By: Andrea J. Stenberg

Andrea J. Stenberg — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:30:41 +0000

Dave,

I auto-follow. I believe Twitter should be a two-way conversation. I can’t “talk” to people if I don’t see what they have to say. By auto-following these people get into my feed. I can then see what they have to say.

Over time, I learn whether I want to continue the conversation. If they are spammy or talking about subjects of which I have no interest I can un-follow later. And if what they have to say is of interest I can continue the conversation by engaging them with @replies and DMs.

Andrea