Recently, I have been monitoring many Twitter accounts from high profile celebrities, politicians, to accounts with 3 figure followers, most of them lost huge number of followers. Personally, I lost almost 10% of my followers too (1,500 followers). I wonder how many followers those with hundreds of thousands of followers might have lost. Averagely, it looks like most of Twitter accounts lost an average of 5-15% of their followers.
It is due to recent spammers removal process done by Twitter. If you notice there are many twitter accounts with zero post or auto pilot posts with “U Follow I Follow” method. This account is just made to spam with tons of advertising or affiliate links tweets. No real person behind this account as it is made automated. It is good that Twitter finally takes some time to take action against these type of accounts.
I’m also tired with some of the accounts that follows to get followers. Then, unfollow us back once we followed them. Luckily, I got Tweetlater and FollowerMonitor to help identify this accounts and unfollow them automatically. If you are serious about “U Follow I Follow” method, I suggest you to use the above services. Trust me, it can help to reduce by doing it automatically. Plus, you can identify and block this account from repeating the same thing again.
Popularity: 10%
Related posts:
- Biggest Twitter Follow Back List Earlier, I have shared ideas on how to get 1000...
- Crossing 100,000 Followers On Twitter Today, my twitter account at have just crossed 100,000 followers...
- Half Of Twitter Users Have More Than One Account Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networks all...
I didn’t lose many followers in the cleanup. I think this is mostly due to the fact that I would regularly block spammers, although I’m very glad that they “cleaned house”. I hope they do it on a regular basis.
I am probably in the minority, but I do not ever plug my blog on twitter, don’t advertise it…don’t even advertise my design business, except on my twitter home page. I use Twitter to cultivate relationships, not for my own personal gain. (And because Twitter is a lot of fun!). This is not to say I won’t ever do so, but it is not my main reason for being on Twitter.
I wouldn’t care if I had only 10 followers, if they were people that I have quality relationships with. However, having a larger following does give me more opportunities to cultivate those relationships. You never know when/where it will come from. I love learning from all of you, but at the same time, it’d make me very happy if you said “Hello, how are you?” (and meant it) once in a while instead of sitting on the sidelines. You all have something unique to add.
Reply
Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 4:29 am
The temptation towards collecting highest numbers of followers due to recent advertising opportunities using twitter gave an impact to all twitter users. I mean, who don’t want to get paid $$$ for their tweets.
Reply
REPLY TO:
“Work At Home Reply:
July 30th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Yes Andrew, I agree with that. Recent Twitter clean up have made a lot of changes too. They have removed many spammers from this network. Have you noticed that from your new followers?”
I didn’t actually notice the change that twitter made because I was constantly dropping spammers as soon as I identified them. If I get a new follower and get a DM that has an affiliate link or a ‘want to learn how to get more followers’ message I unfollow immediately. Also even if that doesn’t happen but I notice an abundance of affiliate links being tweeted, especially if the user picture is of a sexy looking girl, dollar signs, or some other obscure image I’ll drop those users as well. Just today I drop 5 new followers because of these reasons.
Reply
I’ve only just started using twitter. I follow people of interest to me and that are in my niche. I don’t unfollow, even if they dont follow me.
Reply
Work At Home Reply:
July 30th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
That sounds like too good for me. I always unfollow and block those who unfollow me. You can call me Evil but I just can’t accept unfollow as I don’t spam my twitter with some affiliate links or heavily pushing my products.
Reply
This is a cool tool Atniz. Actually I am not really active in Tweeter and got few followers and followed. But maybe this might be useful later.
Reply
Work At Home Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Thanks. I’m sure you can see some use of this tool. It really helps me to manage my twitter account. Many twitter users with hundreds of thousands followers users it too. It is easy to manage our twitter with this tool.
Reply
I am glad they finally decided to do this. I hate some of the apps they have put up to scrape up followers.
Reply
Work At Home Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Yeah. I’m sure twitter will have less spam tweets from now on.
Reply