What's your criteria for following people on Twitter?
By kayedanda
@kayedanda (1850)
Philippines
July 24, 2009 5:23pm CST
Do you follow EVERYONE who follows you? As with everything else, I am a late Twitter bloomer. Hee hee. Signed up with an account months ago out of curiosity but wasn't interested in updating it or anything UNTIL a few days ago because of a new opportunity introduced by Social Spark to make money out of tweets. I figured it's an easy way to make extra money so I thought, what the heck. What have I got to lose. And so the search for followers commenced. After one and a half days and almost a hundred followers, I started thinking, should I follow everyone who follows me? Some of them are accounts made purely for the purpose of advertising products and/or services, so you can imagine the onslaught of ads on my page. But still, they are good for the numbers.
What's your take on this?
And while I'm at it, anyone interested in a 'follow-exchange'? 
I'm wahmaholic in there, by the way. Right now, I follow EVERYONE who follows me, a decision whose wisdom I will have to mull over in the coming days.
I'm wahmaholic in there, by the way. Right now, I follow EVERYONE who follows me, a decision whose wisdom I will have to mull over in the coming days.1 person likes this
12 responses
@2EarnMoney2 (1160)
• United States
24 Jul 09
I have my twitter account set-up to auto-follow anyone who follows me, along with sending any new followers a welcome message.
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@2EarnMoney2 (1160)
• United States
25 Jul 09
Head over to my profile, on the right hand side you will see a Add me Twitter button, right below that is a link to my blog entry about how Twitter tools. Head over to that, and on that blog entry, you want the GREATEST Twitter tool :)
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
25 Jul 09
I've heard of TweetLater. Am considering the possibility of joining. The free account of course. I'm stingy 
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@bohemian03 (103)
• Netherlands
24 Jul 09
oh wow... i never knew you could do those things on twitter... how do you do that?
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@theptcnetworks (575)
• Pitcairn
24 Jul 09
What is the significance of following and followers on twitter? why is everyone up to twitter? i have a twitter account but i rarely use it..
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@theptcnetworks (575)
• Pitcairn
26 Jul 09
Oh, that's what they call earn money thru twitter. I also have joined one earning site which uses twitter so as to earn. I'm using that currently but I cant see any good results yet.
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
28 Jul 09
RevTwt, perhaps? have not joined that yet. Maybe later when I see personal friends earning already. I've been a bit more cautious lately when it comes to signing up on sites.
@doggyhouz (548)
• United States
25 Jul 09
I so have a simple criteria when accepting new friends on any type of social network. It seems today that a lot of social networks are out their now. We can find someone with similar interests online but far more importantly are you guys going to be friends even with similarities.
My one criteria I use to add friends are a picture at least and a well filled out profile just because you know they are true active members are at least close to knowing they are active members.
Then every month I would go through my friends list and remove anyone that I may not know because I really like to keep my social network online with people I know in real life because there is no reason to be friends with people that I don't even know about. They wouldn't benefit me in anyway besides telling people I "might" know everyone in the world
Godbless
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
28 Jul 09
wow. i'm lazy that's why once you're in my list, you're there forever! but it's a very good thing that you still find time to 'weed out' those people not very close to you 
but it's a very good thing that you still find time to 'weed out' those people not very close to you 
@jules67 (2788)
• Philippines
25 Jul 09
That is nice that you have followers that much. I have a hard time making followers. I have invited friends to signup with Twitter and we exchange. But it seems that they are not that interested. I find Twitter and interesting site.
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
28 Jul 09
@ canadamom:
good advice! i started out with like 20 friends at first and they have now grown to 500 
although now i don't really know most of the people in my list 
although now i don't really know most of the people in my list 
@starlight70 (316)
• Malaysia
25 Jul 09
I guess you need to have a gang in twitter in order to enjoy this. I mean, if you don't even have sufficient friends in there, it is like talking to a wall. Unless you are Ashton Kutcher, then the world is interested to know what you are doing - wearing blue shirt, wearing shoes too small, not wearing boxer on Tuesday etc etc. Who cares about me, when they don't even know me? None. I have some who added me. Upon checking, they have already deleted me. They added me in hope that I add them in return.
If I really have to add, then, I think, shallowly, I will only the cute ones. Sorry, but that is one category I will choose. ;p
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
25 Jul 09
fair enough. i would've also stuck to that principle if not for the fact that i'm already taken and very much in love!
and i'm also a fan of ashton. yeah. it's that way with celebrities. oh well. there are downsides to being famous people as well, so there. hee hee
@bluesinjid (658)
• Canada
25 Jul 09
I follow people who are interested in my kind of websites, and people who just making interesting response! Also, i really love the dell deals and all those exclusive Twitter only offers from big companies. What i also love is following some celebrities, like Nigahiga, who just recently signed up and received almost 100 000 followers!
@Videogeezer (654)
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25 Jul 09
I do not really visit too often, but I do realise it has great potential in many different avenues. It has changed the way certain events are depicted, the Iran elections recently are a great indicator of this. I am sure there will be many more situations like this happening in the future with a bigger impact even. I follow musicians I like mainly, it interests me to get a glimpse of their world, even if it is only within the constraints of 160 characters. I am not a fan of people who are there just to try and sell you products. I have no problem with people promoting certain things, but they need to give me a good reason to follow them. Purely spamming is a backwards policy which will be negative to the product on the whole, even if some leads are generated in the process. I do not follow everybody who follows me as I do not want to condone the spam accounts.
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
25 Jul 09
very well said. 
if i may ask, who are the musicians that you follow? john mayer was the first celebrity i added on my list. he is often seen as full of air (arrogant and proudly contemptuous), but i love his humor just the same.
if i may ask, who are the musicians that you follow? john mayer was the first celebrity i added on my list. he is often seen as full of air (arrogant and proudly contemptuous), but i love his humor just the same.
@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
25 Jul 09
Hi Kay...no, I do not follow anyone just because they follow me, but rather follow those with similar interests or whose work I admire.
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@heartbeats1010 (206)
• India
25 Jul 09
GIVE and tak policy. i thnk majority follow this. if ones following you, then you follow them. but there are certain criteria for that. I alwayz ffollow them whoz has got equal thougts
@ravirai8616561 (824)
• India
25 Jul 09
My criteria is that I always add friends and follow those people on twitter that have twitted in past 24 hours.have a good day
@jongskie721 (45)
• Philippines
13 Feb 10
hello kaye, i am a twitter addict :D i follow those people who are my friends, or those who i have common interests with, and the people who i idolized.. i even met biz stone, the co-founder of twitter :) i followed you, my twitter username is langga_joanne
