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Then what?

• vog 10y ago
  Your overly short comment doesn't make any sense to me. Also, I see no connection to the article. Do you care to elaborate?
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  • junke 10y ago
    I read it as: Someone unfollows you. Then what? Probably questioning the utility of the tool.
  • mrweasel 10y ago
    The comments a little short, but the question is valid. What use is the information that "TwitterUser123" un-followed you? Are you going to write that person and ask why? Are you going to change your tweets because someone doesn't like your writing style, political views or personality? It's a fun little project, but it's of little actual value.
    • a_bonobo 10y ago
      There's heaps of marketing tools (random example: http://who.unfollowed.me/ http://who.unfollowed.me/ ) around to track who followed you and to auto-follow and un-follow people based on whether they're following you. Many accounts on Twitter inflate their 'Followers' count by auto-following others in the hope that they follow back. If they don't follow back after x days you can unfollow them again so that your 'Following' number isn't too inflated, and the ratio of 'Following'/'Followers' is better.
      • mrweasel 10y ago
        That honestly sound like a solution to problem that no honest person/company would even have.
        • Veen 10y ago
          It's a problem because people use vanity metrics like follower counts as a proxy for the popularity of a company and its product. That incentivizes businesses to inflate their follow counts. In the real world, 10,000 useless bot or "follow back" followers should be less valuable than a thousand interested followers who are likely to buy something and promote your business. In social media world its easier for startups to get the thousand "good" followers if they also have 10,000 worthless followers because the good followers will dismiss a business if its only followers are the co-founders and their moms.
          • mrweasel 10y ago
            I wonder want would happen if Twitter decided that your number of followers is irrelevant and just hide it.
            • throwanem 10y ago
              They'd lop off a chunk of the ecosystem around their product that helps give it value, is what. Desirable as it might be, don't look for that to happen any time soon.
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• throwanem 10y ago
  Obsess!
• JohnIdol 10y ago
  You unfollowed them back in revenge, of course.
  • 0xmohit 10y ago
    Or maybe find a social engineering hack by way of which you can make others follow you (without them realizing it, of course).