Like most news in the social media world, tweets travel remarkably fast, at tweet speed. I’m still getting up to speed but it looks like due to auto-follow services, follow-bots and free apps blowing up last week, we all have more followers
and some have gone from 100 to 1000 overnight.
This is great, right?
No, it’s not.
The old standard of quality over quantity still stands, even in the twitterverse.
Spam followers (not you, @spamfollower) are nothing new and you get a self-server here and there but the new influx saw quick follows and even quicker unfollows because the so-called targeted services really, really aren’t.
I think Team Twitter recognized this and applied the controversial follower caps as an act of preserving the integrity and quality of the original model, not kowtowing to A & B-list celebs (as one auto-follow cheerleader surmised).
(It should be noted however that said auto-follow fan’s anti-twitter tweets were wiped almost as soon as they were added.)
This is what I believe: Twitter changed the conversation.
It is far more than a networking tool. The exchange of ideas and information it allows is paramount to our continued growth and success as a community (local and global) and as individuals (personally and professionally).
I like #FollowFriday and getting recommends from friends and followers but not for the numbers. If that’s all someone is after, the auto-follow apps are perfect - but still, who cares about influence if your followers aren’t the people you want to influence and be influenced by?
Agree/Disagree?
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