Comments on: 5 Signs You’re Following Too Many People on Twitter (And What You Can Do About It!)

By: Denver Colorado SEO

Denver Colorado SEO — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:37:58 +0000

Here's an easy one-step method for determining if you are following too many people on Twitter; 'Is the number of people you are following on Twitter greater than zero?' If you answered 'yes', you are wasting to much of your time reading unimportant blather from celebrities, marketers and news outlets. Twitter is like being well informed as much as getting a postcard is like actually going on holiday.

By: Nikki May

Nikki May — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:32:09 +0000

Great tips and suggestions here! Thank you all!

I certainly need to trim down the number of people I am following, otherwise its too time-consuming and I miss out on important Twitts.

By: marcelino

marcelino — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:11:43 +0000

"You follow back everyone who follows you—Just because someone is interested in what you have to say doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be interested in what they have to say. So, don’t automatically follow back everyone who follows you."

Ended this addiction with the one step program, deleted the Twitter account and started over. I have 9 followers and follow 6, after five months, couldn't be happier, I get no less than 12 referrals to my blog everyday!

By: dschmidt

dschmidt — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:23:47 +0000

Eric, some good suggestions. I totally agree with dumping inactive users, MLM gurus and twammers, but self promotion and auto following are quintessential elements of Twitter when used responsibly.

By: john

john — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:45:47 +0000

Thanks Gerald for the wonderful site that you have shared.
@Eric
When one is interested to follow people who are hyperactive on twitter or should I say social/twitter addicts , I think that is a problem then to follow a group of people whom you want to follow!

By: Helen Principal

Helen Principal — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:51:56 +0000

I do admire all that tips – I've started using Twitter not long ago and now I need such ones.Thanks for all that really logical tips based only on the personal experience.

By: Aira

Aira — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:47:54 +0000

Nice tips and points. Twitter is a great place to interact as well as place to let everyone what you are thinking and writing. If people comes to your posts and liked it then they will comment but if someone follows you, its really very nice that your posts has been liked by them.

By: Si Dawson

Si Dawson — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:13:22 +0000

[Since it's on topic]

I run a site called The Twit Cleaner which deals with exactly the issue you’re discussing.

It will run a scan over the people you’re following, then categorise them into spammers, timewasters, people that never engage & so on.

You can then use the report to help decide who to keep, who to follow.

You get the report for free.

If you want us to auto-unfollow the bad guys on your report, it’s free if you follow up to 2000 people, then a small charge over that.

Of course, you’re welcome to just use your report to manually unfollow anyone you don’t like.

By: @twitwebtester

@twitwebtester — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:40:33 +0000

My Cleenr.com only works for people who follow less than 700 people. For myself, i use http://untweeps.com/ seems better, but you can only use their free service 3 times a month

By: taukehkedai

taukehkedai — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:39:03 +0000

From my personal experience after using both Twitter and Facebook, I concluded that Twitter is good in sharing news & update, BUT if you want conversation, better use Facebook.

This is because when we use Twitter for conversation, Twitter and your followers said you are a spammer, you clog a lot of people timeline. When we use DM in Twitter, they also sad you spam.

Therefore, for conversation, better use Facebook which had a comment post of a particular topic we posted. Therefore, we are not clogging anyone else timeline.