Comments on: Someone Started Following Me On Twitter! What Do You Do?

By: Kevin Tan

Kevin Tan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:34:02 +0000

Hello there Sarge. Thanks for adding me on Twitter.

I’ve exactly the same personal guidelines to follow my followers. Apart from that, I mostly follow users who’s blogging or have a site in my niche to narrow my community.

To be honest, you’re the first person whom I added on my new blogging Twitter account.

Let’s keep in touch!

By: Sarge

Sarge — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:37:21 +0000

@Ms. Freeman – I’m with you about the twitter numbers. In fact your comment has inspired me to set up my own auto-follow (thinking about it at least) because I set up LISTS to communicate/follow those that I care most about and I see everyone that @messages me so I’m able to contact with others in that way.

I go out of my way to talk to people on twitter that I care about, just adding someone then not doing anything (not engaging) isn’t making a connection.

By: Ms. Freeman

Ms. Freeman — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:24:38 +0000

I have an auto follower set up. But if I like a blog or Twitterer then I manually follow them. I hate science and crunching numbers. So the number of followers etc is of no real importance to me, at least not at this time.

By: Sarge

Sarge — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:17:50 +0000

@Eric – Yep, it’s all about value. No point adding someone if they offer no value to you or you can’t feel you can help them out.

@Caron – Do you block them or do you just not bother adding them? I don’t think I’ve ‘blocked’ anyone before. I only would if they continued to spam me/annoy me.

@Element – Wow over 100 requests a day – that’s HEAPS!

@Hesham – I like your approach – willing to give anyone that bothered adding you a fair go. You’re not closing any doors on anyone that way. Only problem is that there are bots that automatically add people but I suppose the only harm in that would be an increase in the number of people you’re following. It’s not like you HAVE to talk to them just because you’ve decided to follow them back. Which is why I would love it if the number of followers and people you’re following you was actually hidden. Personally I use lists to manage people I talk to on a regular basis and I respond to all my @messages (if they’re to respond to) So I’m not ignoring anybody.

@David – I too am curious Element

By: David

David — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:36:40 +0000

It’s interesting to read that element 321 can attract up to 100 new followers in a day. How do you do that element? too many of the people who start following me are women whose accounts have been blocked by the time I check them out. I can’t imagine why.

By: Hesham @ FamousBloggers

Hesham @ FamousBloggers — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:29:27 +0000

If someone follow me on Twitter, I turn to him and say “HEY WHY YOU ARE FOLLOWING ME?”, and I start to suspect him .. Naah.. Just kidding!

for me I take it the easy way, just follow back till check what he is twitting about!

By: element321

element321 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:12:33 +0000

Great post.

I normally do the same thing. Its a lot of work. Some days I get anywhere from 20 or 30 requests and others I may get over a 100. When I am not busy, I will check them just as you do. Sometimes I add bots if the post are good and I find it useful. But I MAKE sure its not a spammer. Most of the time I generally wait till I get home from work or school. Once I opened several as either email or jumped to their site w/o looking at their email. I then get burned if its has a NSFW icon. Now I wait.

By: Caron Mosey

Caron Mosey — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:56:23 +0000

I always check out the people who follow me…

I block them if:
*They are following a large amount of people and
*I don’t know them or
*They don’t appear to have anything in common with me

I follow them if:
*They have something in common with me
*I know them
*They have taken the time to put a personal photo up

By: Kissie

Kissie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:40:17 +0000

Whoa, now I want to follow Eric!

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:38:20 +0000

I follow someone on Twitter when:

I see that they are talking about something I care about or something that affects me personally.
They have a profile picture that they’ve cared enough to customize.
Who they follow are legit real people.
Lastly, basically if I feel good about who they seem to be and what they have to offer.

With the Internet you can’t be too careful and I want to follow people who bring good into my life. Anyone can follow me but I will follow back when I feel they add value to me.