Someone just unfollowed me on Twitter!
If someone has unfollowed you, don’t sweat it! It doesn’t automatically mean you’ve done something wrong.
If a lot of people unfollow you all at once, then (and only then) is it time to look at how you’re tweeting, what you’re tweeting and even at how much you’re tweeting.
10 reasons someone might unfollow you are:
1. By mistake– they were trying to unfollow someone else.
2. You didn’t follow them back
3. They realised you don’t live in their part of the world, and they only follow locals.
4. They’re trying to target a certain demographic of Twitterers, and you don’t fit the profile.
5. You just tweeted 10 tweets in a row about your own business. You don’t enage in conversation much with anyone.
6. You just tweeted about something that offends them.
7. They find your tweets dead boring.
8. They’re trying to keep at the top of your followers list, and therefore keep following and unfollowing you. (such people might find themselves swiftly blocked!)
9. You tweet quotable quotes all day long, but nothing that tells anyone who YOU are.
10. You’re tweeting to the wrong group of twitterers– your followers have no tweetin’ idea what you’re talking about.
I just went through and purged people on my list who dont tweet. Its called untweet. So thats another reason why ppl unfollw u, because you no longer use your twitter account.
Hi Josephine & thanks for leaving a comment.
I hadn’t heard of unfollowing people because they don’t tweet–it’s not something I would have thought of doing. Is untweet a program? I just went to have a look – is this it?: http://untweeps.com/
I’m amazed at the amount of twitter tools there are!
I just unfollowed a whole load of people because I just followed them out of politeness in the first place when they followed me. But then I ended up following too many people. I can’t keep track of them all so those that I have nothing in common with had to go. Sorry folks!
Hi Annabel
I did that myself on my first twitter account. You can quickly & easily build up a large amount of followers – but you can’t possibly enage with all of them!
i’ve recently discovered another twitter-unfollow point – porn purge!
Twitter regularly expels the people peddling porn. It’s hard to keep up with everyone who follows you, especially when they change from innocent-looking to ‘brittany-vids’ at a later stage!