Jul 9, 2009
Don’t assume anything about people just from seeing how they follow others on Twitter.
There are good reasons to follow…
- …your followers,
- a few select people,
- or nobody.
A person’s choice says nothing certain about them.
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Thank you for making this observation. It’s easy to want to think some people are snobs for never following back and others are people pleasers for always following back. But, I know those things are not true. It’s insufficient evidence to make a right judgment.
What about folks who follow 12,000 people? Can’t we at least assume things about those people??
Good point.
I actually do read what the people I follow have to say and regularly glean interesting information or flat out learn breaking news from them.
Thus, I generally only follow someone if they tend to tweet stuff that interests me.
Following someone back just because they followed me–I quit that long ago. It’s pointless, for me.
But, as you note, others find value in that approach as well.
In the same way assume nothing from one’s followers list either. I’ll allow anyone to follow me so long as they’re not obvious porn or selling something.
BTW, the “followers”/”following” terminology on Twitter bothers me. As in, “I have 84 followers”. Sounds cultic.
Is this in response to all the hype your dad’s twitter account has gotten? :D
Would you assume that a person is a democrat if the only political persons they followed were Karl Rove, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin?
There are also good reasons to follow people who you don’t agree with at all. You get a different perspective that helps you think and consider.