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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
by 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 agoThat honestly sound like a solution to problem that no honest person/company would even have.
- Veen 10y agoIt'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 agoI wonder want would happen if Twitter decided that your number of followers is irrelevant and just hide it.
- throwanem 10y agoThey'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.