Reasons why I unfollow someone on Twitter

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1. 

   bgrier (Brad Grier)

   March 12, 2009

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   Blog: Reas­ons why I unfol­low someone on Twit­ter: As many of you who’ve read my past posts know, I tend to tweet .. [link to post]

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   Patty Caya

   March 12, 2009

   I com­pletely agree with your philo­sophy of Tweet­ing things you find inter­est­ing and things you think your fol­low­ers will also find inter­est­ing. I am always happy to hear someone actu­ally admit that it’s okay if people unfol­low (or not fol­low in the first place). If you fol­low too many people it is indeed dif­fi­cult to der­rive the value that can be had from Twitter.

   Do you have any philo­sophies on Tweet­ing per­son­al stuff or even the ratio of per­son­al to oth­er stuff. That seems to be the place where people start to have really strong opin­ions. I won’t fol­low someone who’s ratio of per­son­al to oth­er stuff is too high. I just don’t have the time or the inclin­a­tion to fol­low the per­son­al lives of that many strangers. It does­n’t make me pop­u­lar, but it does keep my Twit­ter exper­i­ence more valuable.

   @trixielatour (and yes, I fol­low you so thanks for the con­tent each day : — )

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   Brad Grier

   March 12, 2009

   Hi Patty, thanks for the kind words, and for following 🙂

   Re: Tweet­ing per­son­al stuff: Twit­ter is a pub­lic chan­nel. Very pub­lic. Google crawls Twit­ter and archives con­tent for search­ing. Things last forever in Google, and I’m not sure if per­son­al things need to be pub­lic forever.

   I guess it all depends on ‘how per­son­al’. Do I care that someone I’m fol­low­ing broke up with their boy­friend? Not really, unless they’re a close per­son­al friend in real life…etc. Even so, I’m not con­vinced that Twit­ter is the appro­pri­ate con­duit for that con­tent. Maybe a more private Face­book status update would be a bet­ter channel.

   If I felt they were tweet­ing con­tent that was inap­pro­pri­ate, then I’d simply stop fol­low­ing them. I have the con­trol who I fol­low or don’t, whose con­tent I see or not.

   And I’m the best judge of what’s appro­pri­ate con­tent for ME. It may be entirely appro­pri­ate for someone to tweet about their award-win­ning ham­ster food recipe all day, their fol­low­ers may appre­ci­ate it, but since it’s not my thing, I’d stop following.

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4. 

   Erik

   March 18, 2009

   Twit­ter fol­low­ing should be extremely sub­ject­ive. What is inter­est­ing to you may not be inter­est­ing to me. I tend to avoid the Twit­ter­ati types with thou­sands of fol­low­ers because I’m not one for idol­atry. I like con­nect­ing with like-minded cyc­lists and bikers or tech folks. If someone has nev­er pos­ted a tweet then what’s the point of fol­low­ing them? If all they post are links to their blog then would­n’t I be bet­ter served by read­ing their blog and determ­ing if it was of interest.

   One thing I hate are the “mar­ket­ing gurus” who fol­low any­one and every­one and amass this insane num­bers. How can you inter­act in a mean­ing­ful way with 25000 people?

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   Brad Grier

   March 18, 2009

   Hi Erik, thanks for that. Good points, esp. when it comes to people who _only_ pimp their own blog, agenda, mar­ket­ing ini­ti­at­ive, whatever.

   And I com­pletely agree with the sub­ject­ive nature of the ‘fol­low’ which is why I don’t auto­ma­gic­ally fol­low every­one that fol­lows me. I have to get some­thing out of the rela­tion­ship, or it’s not worth them tak­ing up band­width in my twit­ter stream, and push­ing oth­er val­ued ‘twits’ fur­ther down the pipe.

   It seems that some people are ‘get­ting’ Twit­ter, but sadly, many still aren’t.

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   thomashawk (Thomas Hawk)

   March 18, 2009

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