Twitter Tip: Why I Didn't Follow You Back

2009-08-04T16:00:00.002-05:00

Why I Didn’t Follow You Back…

1) Because you have no shirt in your avatar. No good reason – just don’t do it.

2) Because you have no (or very few) updates – especially if you are following a bunch of people. How can I tell whether I am interested if there’s no substance?

3) Because you didn’t fill out your profile, or said you were from the “Planet Earth”, “Cyberspace” or “Everywhere”. Where you are from and what your passions are interest me.

4) Because you do not converse with others. If I see no @ signs in your stream it means in my mind that you don’t “get” what Twitter can do for you and you just want to hear yourself talk.

5) Because you have an animated GIF as an avatar – one with blinking sunglasses or animals jumping around. Or also if you orient your picture sideways or upside down. Too much work for me to talk to you face to face. Your efforts to attract undue attention to yourself have backfired at least in my case.

6) Because all I see in your Twitter stream are retweets. Although it is very generous to retweet, I am looking for people who can also think for themselves.

7) Because most or all of your posts send out the link to your web site.

8) Because you follow WAY more people than follow you. Looks like you are spamming.

9) Because WAY more people follow you than those that you follow. Either you think you are a celebrity or you just want to hear yourself talk.

10) Because your profile pic is not updated, you have one tweet with a link, no profile…Really? Are you actually convinced that is an effective marketing method?

11) You have 10,000 followers and only 5 updates. Your tweets aren’t that good!

12) Because your color scheme makes it so difficult that I can hardly read your profile and/or Twitter stream. Light pink on white and dark gray on black just doesn’t work, people!

13) Because you take the “What are you doing?” question literally and all I see are short posts on what you do throughout the day. Get over yourself.

14) Because your avatar is of a female chest shot in a bikini and you are going to show me how to make money filling out surveys all day. Really??

15) Because you tweet only sporadically – maybe once a week or so. How can I have a conversation with you?

16) Because you protect your updates and your profile is either missing or vague.

17) Because your avatar is disturbing. You got through every other criteria – you are social, profile is filled out, you are generous – I couldn’t imagine having to look at that avatar all the time.

18) Because I read in your profile a tweet that said “Get 10,000 followers easy using blah blah blah.” Your follower count: 147. Wow!!

19) Because your profile read “This is NOT SPAM!” If it takes that much of an argument then I guess it is. Source

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Twitter Tip: Why I Didn't Follow You Back