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Rooting Out Fake, Spammy Twitterers

Started by webomatica · 1 year ago

I use Twitter regularly but have recently received a large influx of followers to where it’s getting a bit out of control. Before, I would automatically follow anybody who followed me, since the number was manageable, but that’s quickly not becoming the case. I am currently following 130 folks and 150 are following me. That may not sound ... Continue reading »

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  • Ross McKillop

    1 year ago

    That guy in the first icon you used is shockingly handsome. :P
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Yeah, our cats thought so, too.
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  • engtech

    1 year ago

    They're choking that cat with a scarf!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

    I have a program that automatically friends all who follow me, and then I manually unsubscribe from them if they're spammers. It's pretty effective.
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Aw, I think stuff on a cat is cute.
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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    That's fair. Another rule I tend to follow is that I don't follow someone that I wouldn't be able to read daily.

    People who post every single blog article link to Twitter bother me immensely - that's why we've got RSS feeds, c'mon. If I wanted your articles, I'd visit your blog and subscribe there.
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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    Heh, whoops...re-reading more carefully, it seems you might do the same.
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Yep - I totally don't mind if a blogger shares a link every once in a while sprinkled with other stuff, but yeah - it's a personal pet peeve of mine when each twitter is just a link to their blog and nothing else.
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  • p0ps

    1 year ago

    I agree and applaud your criteria for weeding out low quality twitters. I over-did following at first, now I'm cutting down using criteria similar to yours. My main blog is my Flickr stream and I use Dave Winer's auto tweet from Flickr. I tweet this way once, sometimes twice a day. I worry if this is too much, but I also tweet links to stories I like and tweet personal comments and @ responses to other's interesting tweets. I try to keep the mix interesting, not tweeting more than once per hour, usually only three or four times per day. And always attempt I enjoy reading a lot of tweets from those I follow and appreciate their links.
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