Every day I get a couple of followers I end up blocking. Today I got five.
They all have names like Buffy5782, that is "girl"+"numeric" username.
They never have a link on their Twitter profile. A normal 20-someting at least has FB.
They have few commercial Twitters during a week in their hisotry.
They have twitter streams that indicate more or less that they have nothing interesting to say.
AND when they follow me, I NEVER get an email from Twitter.com telling me about it even though I get notified when normal people follow me both before and after these mystery followers.
Why do I block them?
I guess it's just paranoia because I can't see an advantage for them unless it has to do with gaming some Twitter filter that uses community embeddedness for some reason.
Of course I get my share of "Marketing Professionals" who just happen to have a great application that can monetize my twitter stream and get me "millions of followers" and who can change my life et cetera. Meh.
I wish someone at Twitter would explain what is going on like Mark Cuban did when the spam-bloggers were messing with Ice Rocket.
Dear Bob, thank you for your follow and @heuristical at twitter.
ReplyDeletei am severely trying to decrease followers, as well as limit tweets per day, so please allow me if i may for a few days to watch on--and i will--before possibly adding you.
i need to reduce follows by 30% or more, and play to only have 300 follows at 1,000 followers, so dont want to flake out.
you sound like a fine man and a good teacher.
my entire family consists of teachers...
i will @ you back tomorrow, and have one more tweet that i can do, all mapped out, a week or more already written on a plan, specifically taken approach.
warmly, david korn seattle
thank you!