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Out of curiosity, what's the value of following 2000+ people on Twitter? I'm following about 100 and the noise is already incredibly counterproductive.

• horseemergency 12y ago
  I was going to say the same thing. I've got about 50 followers and sometimes it's all I can do to not unsubscribe from half of them. I'd bet that getting to 100 is much harder to handle, and I can't even imagine 2000...
• withdavidli 12y ago
  Agreed. I was at about 800 following and decided to trim down to 25-30 people. Unfollowing takes so long on Twitter I had to use 3rd party apps to speed up the process.
  • macromaniac 12y ago
    I had made a twitter account a long while ago but didn't really use it. A month or two ago I decided I wanted to start using it again but I had somehow started following 2000 people. I couldn't find a 3rd party app for unfollowing that didn't have me sign up for something so I used document.getElementByClassName(unfollowButtonString) to click all the unfollow buttons at once. Regardless of that hassle, finding and using inactive accounts is probably pretty easy for the people selling these follows. I imagine they just try passwords leaked from other services or applications or hire people to make fake accounts.
  • reledi 12y ago
    Which apps did you use? I have a difficult time unfollowing people. I try to purge my following list often, but I never make much progress.
    • withdavidli 12y ago
      Some that I used: justunfollow, unfollowers, and iunfollow(not sure if I used this one, looks familiar). Each cap their fast unfollow feature to about 25 a day. So it took me about a week to get it down using all the services.
• 0x0 12y ago
  I don't read it all, but when i do open the twitter app, i like that it's all new content for as long as i can be bothered to scroll. And there are lots of interesting people out there. edit: and 2000 users over 7 years is less than one new per day.