Showing posts with label twitter follow back. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twitter follow back. Show all posts
The Twegomaniac ~ The Twitter Follower/Unfollower Egomaniacs
My goodness, call me James Audubon and fly me to the moon. I have discovered a new species of bird ~ the Twegomaniac. This was a rare big that is becoming quite common.
The bird is part of fauna that exists in the Twitterverse. There cry is "Follow Me, Follow Me" and to get you to do that, they follow you first. But they are like the cuckoo bird who fools its host. Once you abide by the Twitter netiquette and follow them, they unfollow you. It's all about them. They are the birdbrain egomaniacs who thinks that size matters. They were born with a small size, and to try and enlarge it, instead of having the personality and content to get followers (like Jesus, Ghandi or Clint Eastwood's Empty Chair), they have to resort to trickery. They just don't have the right stuff.
So how do you know if you have come across a Twegomaniac in your follow list? The biggest clue is that you have never heard of them, and they have 100,000 follows and 200,000 followers. The other identifying feature is a big asshole.
So how do you protect yourself from these odious creatures and droppings that they leave all over your home page before they leave. There are a plethora of tools out there to help detect unfollowers. I have been known to use the free aspect of manageflitter.com as a pest control method. There are many more. Beware of the Twegomaniac.
Twitter Follow-Backs

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I have officially stopped. I have stopped playing the stupid tit-for-tat followers games. I got the above this morning in my email saying that I was being followed, and that we would have a pact, and if I followed they would keep the follow and if I unfollowed them on Twitter, they would unfollow as well.
Bully for them. I am tired of playing this game. I will return to my true self. I will not follow ghetto rap artists. I will not follow girls more intent on showing their breasts rather than reading my content. I will not follow fundamentalist, racist Republicans.
I will just follow people and accounts that I am interested in, and will not follow you just because you follow me. Inflated follower numbers mean nothing. I have conducted experiments on how to convert followers to web hits, and the only way to do it, is to emulate the religion model. Anyone who is a true follower, will check out your website. Anyone paying lip service and just playing the tit-for-tat following game cannot be converted to web hits and is uninterested in what you have to say.
So most of my followers are real now. If you want to follow me for real, I can be followed @ArtOfWarm. If you are interesting, have decent content, and are not trying to sell me something, I will follow you back,
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