Follow/unfollow on twitter

First of all, I don’t follow-back everybody following me. I check every follower when I get a mail about a follower to my @rygh account. If you have a balanced follower vs following ratio I will follow you back, unless it is 20000 followers – because then my question is – why haven’t you found me before? Why am I interesting when you already follow 20000. People don’t have 20000 followers because they find all the conversation interesting, they have a lot of followers because they spend a lot of time following people to make them follow them back. I am working on a script that will monitor the list of followers I have – I’ll write more about it when it is ready. But the goal is stop getting the emails about new followers, and coordinate followers cross my twitter accounts.

I have two main accounts on twitter (and some more I have registered for different purposes). @rygh and @nicolairygh is my main accounts. The first account is for tweets in English, the other in Norwegian. Some people unfollowed the @rygh-account when I started to use @nicolairygh for Norwegian tweets. They wanted to Norwegian tweets only – and that is okay! If you make the decision to follow or unfollow me because of content – that is okay. But followers that only follow me to get me to follow them back – that is a game I don’t want to play.

When do you unfollow people on twitter?

Beside the typical follow/unfollow/follow/unfollow game that you get from some – where they constantly follow and then unfollow you until you follow them back (or block them) is users you don’t want to have in your list. People that only use their twitter account to publish promotions, and especially promotions on how to get more followers on twitter. The last group I tend to unfollow is people who post their delicious links, their fourthsquare, bkite or other meta-data in their feed – and if this is the only content – the value of following them is zero. If you are not a part of the conversation – why should we follow you. So I say; if you post your geo-data with tools – you are warned – you should be active part of the conversation – or you’ll lose some followers. Be smart, create a different account for specific content.