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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I do not know but i hope i can keep them. Btw, please share information on how to have more followers. Thanks!
Surely. Meanwhile, maybe you can check this http://atniz.com/2009/05/27/how-to-get-1000-twitter-followers-in-one-day/
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.
Wow! That means all your followers are spammers. Maybe, it is time to concentrate on real twitter users as spammers account got deleted.
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.
Spammers are everywhere. Twitter getting so famous as it attracts many spammers too. Hope this tools help you monitor some spammers.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Thank god you have lost minimum followers there. I wish I’m as lucky as you too.
waw, you have so very many followers….
but i don’t have twitter account yet, so it wouldn’t be my problem…..
Yeah. Try to create one, it delivers some traffic to our blog too.
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.
Almost everyone have lost their followers. Don’t worry about it. I’m sure you can gain back double in one day.
I do not know but i hope i can keep them. Btw, please share information on how to have more followers. Thanks!
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.
I fo not if I was just lucky but I only lost 1-5 twitter followers.
You are very lucky there. You must have closely monitor your followers.
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
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.