There are tons of spammers on Twitter these days. If we’re all there, so are the spammers. But there you will find business leaders, politicians, celebrities, social workers, and just great people too. But the question raises is that when & who to follow back? What things should look in someone's profile and decided to follow or not follow him back? This thing mainly based upon your personal interest what you are looking in someone's profile but here I am sharing some tips that you should consider when following someone back. 1. Is the profile an actual person? There should be a real person behind that profile. If he is just promoting his business and 50% or more of his tweets are just "hey come and see us" or "50% off only today" etc then this is one-sided relationship. You should avoid getting involve in these relationships because they are not going to be any beneficial for you. 2. Does the profile have valid no. of followers? There are plenty of programs available there to mass subscribe or unsubscribe twitter users and many people use them to mass follow people and after some time they mass unsubscribe them and this way they get more followers than the one they are following. In most of such cases they have very few no. of tweets but thousands of followers. Do not follow them back. 3. Content: If you don't find anything interesting in the profile then don't follow it back. It doesn't mean that it should be a most-relevant content but it should be something that should get your interest. Tweets like, watching TV, going to market, wearing shoes and blah blah.. are also not going to make the profile look any good. Try to avoid follow or follow back such profiles. I hope you understand when and who to follow back and now you will be having a good experience on twitter Original Author: Webmasters Gossip Forum Note: When publishing this article on your site/blog please link back to the original author's site.
Yep, great advice. Too many people are concerned with how many followers they have. Don't get me wrong, that's great and all. But Twitter is all about connecting with people (Potential customers, other people in your field, people you respect, etc.).... Be picky about who you follow!
The most important thing I consider before a following is checking if the person is genuine or not. There has been a lot of spammers on twitter lately.
This is the worst advice. Do this and you'll be following loads of auto-follow back spambots, and not following twitterers who post interesting and useful stuff.
The information provided here is good try as best you can to ensure you are following real people not some automated postings. I mean don't get me wrong some of the stuff sent using those tools can be valuable but I would rather spend my money with someone I know, like and trust than someone I don't know at all.
Interesting article, thanks for sharing. I had my account suspended because of a mass follow script. Take care when using that kind of scripts.
Personally I mass follow and mass unfollow. I would spend far too much time analyzing each account to see if they are human or bots. Might as well have some bots as long as I get more followers.