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Almost everybody I know has approximately equal followers and followees. I block or don't follow anybody whose ratio is not ~= 1. EDIT: "know" should read "fol

Almost everybody I know has approximately equal followers and followees. I block or don't follow anybody whose ratio is not ~= 1. EDIT: "know" should read "follow"

spot 17y ago
why wouldn't you follow someone who has more followers than followees? i follow about 20 folks and am followed by 400. those 20 already tweet so much i am not sure i want more traffic than that. what does that say about the quality of my output?
- llimllib 17y ago
  You're making the mistake of assuming a universal "quality of output" function. I have no problem with people following many less or more people than follow them, in my experience they're just not the type of person I like to interact with on twitter. I'm just sharing the way I use twitter, not making a claim about how anybody/everybody should use it.
  - spot 17y ago
    We hear that's not what you want. What we are asking is why?
    - spot 17y ago
      Perhaps what you are really saying is you don't follow people who don't also know you, ie with whom you have a two-way relationship?
    - llimllib 17y ago
      Because I want my twitter stream to consist largely of people at my own level, and I have a twitter ratio of ~= 1. People with higher ratios (I follow a few, but not many) are usually so busy or important that I've no reason to follow their tweets, just as they've no reason to follow mine.
csallen 17y ago
I don't mean to be offensive, but I find this ridiculous. Maybe I'm crazy, but isn't it obvious that a user can only follow a limited amount of people before things start getting out of control? I'm sure it would completely destroy my Twitter experience if I were to follow any more than 40 or 50 people. Why should I do that? Just to make my followers feel better about themselves? My Twitter home page is great exactly because it's manageable... I only see updates from people whose updates I care about. Followers should be something that you have to earn by tweeting things that are useful and interesting for all. Why should FamousAuthorX be interested in what RandomDudeY had for breakfast?
- llimllib 17y ago
  he shouldn't! I just don't follow FamousAuthorX, that type of guy might be awesome, but he's not who I want on my twitter stream.

Almost everybody I know has approximately equal followers and followees. I block or don't follow anybody whose ratio is not ~= 1. EDIT: "know" should read "follow"

spot 17y ago

why wouldn't you follow someone who has more followers than followees? i follow about 20 folks and am followed by 400. those 20 already tweet so much i am not sure i want more traffic than that. what does that say about the quality of my output?

llimllib 17y ago
You're making the mistake of assuming a universal "quality of output" function. I have no problem with people following many less or more people than follow them, in my experience they're just not the type of person I like to interact with on twitter. I'm just sharing the way I use twitter, not making a claim about how anybody/everybody should use it.
- spot 17y ago
  We hear that's not what you want. What we are asking is why?
  - spot 17y ago
    Perhaps what you are really saying is you don't follow people who don't also know you, ie with whom you have a two-way relationship?
  - llimllib 17y ago
    Because I want my twitter stream to consist largely of people at my own level, and I have a twitter ratio of ~= 1. People with higher ratios (I follow a few, but not many) are usually so busy or important that I've no reason to follow their tweets, just as they've no reason to follow mine.

csallen 17y ago

I don't mean to be offensive, but I find this ridiculous. Maybe I'm crazy, but isn't it obvious that a user can only follow a limited amount of people before things start getting out of control? I'm sure it would completely destroy my Twitter experience if I were to follow any more than 40 or 50 people. Why should I do that? Just to make my followers feel better about themselves? My Twitter home page is great exactly because it's manageable... I only see updates from people whose updates I care about. Followers should be something that you have to earn by tweeting things that are useful and interesting for all. Why should FamousAuthorX be interested in what RandomDudeY had for breakfast?

llimllib 17y ago
he shouldn't! I just don't follow FamousAuthorX, that type of guy might be awesome, but he's not who I want on my twitter stream.