How Many Twitter Followers You Lost
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.
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July 25th, 2009 at 8:40 am
I lost around 88 followers in the great Twitter cleanup, most of which were spammers anyway, so no real loss there, as you already know I like to use Tweetlater to organize my followers, but I’d never heard of FollowMonitor, so I’ll give it a spin
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:23 am
That is a very small percentage there, Karen. It’s good to see you have clean account there. I hope you like the followmonitor too.
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July 25th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I fo not if I was just lucky but I only lost 1-5 twitter followers.
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:32 am
You are very lucky there. You must have closely monitor your followers.
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July 25th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
I do not know but i hope i can keep them. Btw, please share information on how to have more followers. Thanks!
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Surely. Check http://atniz.com/2009/05/27/how-to-get-1000-twitter-followers-in-one-day/ on how to get 1000 followers a day. I am trying some new methods too, will be posting it soon.
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July 25th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
I noticed this too, I thought it was odd becasue I didn’t know what happend at first or why it happend. But now I know…I lost around 120 followers myself.
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Almost everyone have lost their followers. Don’t worry about it. I’m sure you can gain back double in one day.
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July 26th, 2009 at 8:01 am
waw, you have so very many followers….
but i don’t have twitter account yet, so it wouldn’t be my problem…..
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Yeah. Try to create one, it delivers some traffic to our blog too.
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July 26th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I only lost a handful of followers but have seen that there has been very “new followers” the last week. Wonder if the counting is amiss.
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Thank god you have lost minimum followers there. I wish I’m as lucky as you too.
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July 27th, 2009 at 1:07 am
I lost only a few followers because I constantly look for obvious spammers and drop them straight away. The only ‘I follow – You follow’ system I’ve ever used is john chow’s wefollow.com but it turned out to be a big waste of time with around 70% of followers being spam accounts.
I also don’t see any value in a system like that. In my view the race for the most followers is stupid and provides no advantages or appeal. Most say its great for social proof. That may be the case but if you have nothing to offer other than you follow I follow then you’ll soon lose those followers anyway.
If you want the most benefit from twitter and want to increase your followers, provide value to your followers. I don’t actively seek out followers, yet from just 2 #followfriday mentions I’ve added over 300 new followers.
It might look good to have thousands upon thousands of followers but in reality, most people who use systems to get followers, end up with thousands of followers who actually take no notice of you anyway.
I’d rather have 500 followers who take notice and, more importantly take action, than 10,000 followers who just ignore me.
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July 29th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Wow, with just two followfriday mentions, you can get 300 followers? That is awesome! Thanks for this tips. I’m going to try it too. With over 16k followers, I only get 100+ visits from twitter to my blog. So, I guess having 200 followers who really take notice is better than having 15,000 followers who completely ignores.
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July 29th, 2009 at 9:17 am
That’s exactly right. I only have about 1700 followers but a big part of that is because I unfollow anyone who does anything annoying such as spam, or auto tweet 5 tweets at a time, that sort of thing. I also have TweetDeck running whenever I am at the computer and keep an eye on topical things that might pop up. I then offer opinions, advice or maybe a url that cam help people. Like anything to do with internet marketing, its all about building relationships.
Use twitter as a sales tool and you’ll fail. Use it to help people and they’ll want to listen to everything you have to say and recommend you to their friends.
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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?
July 27th, 2009 at 6:12 am
Thanks for your suggestion and also mentioning about the tools you use.Its also good that Twitter is doing something to remove spam.This spamming is real problem.Each and everywhere there are spams.From spam blog comments to automated directory submission and everywhere.
Thanks again.
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July 29th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Spammers are everywhere. Twitter getting so famous as it attracts many spammers too. Hope this tools help you monitor some spammers.
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July 27th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I’ve lost all of my followers. I had an account that I literaly never used yet I still had some followers. They’re all gone now.
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July 29th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Wow! That means all your followers are spammers. Maybe, it is time to concentrate on real twitter users as spammers account got deleted.
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July 27th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I do not know but i hope i can keep them. Btw, please share information on how to have more followers. Thanks!
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July 29th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Surely. Meanwhile, maybe you can check this http://atniz.com/2009/05/27/how-to-get-1000-twitter-followers-in-one-day/
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July 27th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
I am glad they finally decided to do this. I hate some of the apps they have put up to scrape up followers.
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July 29th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Yeah. I’m sure twitter will have less spam tweets from now on.
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July 28th, 2009 at 8:25 am
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.
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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.
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July 30th, 2009 at 9:40 am
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.
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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.
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July 30th, 2009 at 11:14 am
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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.
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August 1st, 2009 at 4:38 am
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.
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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.
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