How to lose Twitter followers in 10 steps.
Warning: This blog post will only make sense to those who use the latest social media tool and microblogging craze: Twitter.
Since the advent of Twitter, and more recently, Qwitter, we have all been able to feed our strange compulsion to know exactly how popular we all are. The race to see who can gain more followers has consumed some South African Twitter users way beyond what can be considered healthy. And Qwitter makes it worse. Now we also know when people un-follow us and what tweet caused them to take such serious action.
We have all read about strategies to get you followed on Twitter, but what about those that get you unfollowed? I’ve compiled a list of 10 things that are guaranteed to shed you some followers, gleaned both from my experience of people unfollowing me and from people I’ve had to stop following to prevent me from killing them. So if you’re brave (or stupid) enough, why don’t you try a few of them?
1. Tweet about how many followers you have
No matter how excited you are that you just got to 250 followers, nobody else gives a damn. It also feeds our sick need to steal others’ thunder by unfollowing someone when they crow about their milestone.
“Oh, really? You have 300 followers? No you don’t, you have 299! Ha!”
2. Constantly retweet someone who has the same followers as you
We heard what they said the first time – they have over 1000 followers, what are the chances we’re not following them? There is nothing more annoying than hearing the same thing twice, apart from maybe those delightful souls who retweet themselves. Um… Okaaaaay then weirdo.
3. “@” someone to tell them you have sent them an email or DM
The great thing about email is that it lets you know when “You got mail” and if you have email alerts enabled it even lets you know when you have a DM. You do not need to “@” someone to tell them this. Not only does it make the recipient of the message feel patronised but it makes the rest of us feel jealous and left out. What are you guys talking about that is so private that you can’t discuss it in front of everyone but not private enough that you have to broadcast that you said it?
4. Swear on Twitter
With the notable exceptions of people like @Exmi & @Tertia, swearing in tweets will get you dropped faster than you can say “Fu…” you get the picture. It is the SA twittersphere’s pet hate. I find it amusing as we all swear when we see each other “in real life” but it seems dirty (not in a good way) and disrespectful when done on Twitter.
5. Tweet & retweet links with no context
Clicking on links in Twitter is great. You get to see what other people are thinking/doing and you get to learn a lot. But no matter how useful your links are, if you constantly tweet things like “This is interesting: http://tinyurl.com/dgj8g2” with absolutely no indication of what your link is about, I will eventually unfollow you. You have at least another 80 characters left – could you at least give us a clue!?
6. Spam us with 20 tweets a day asking us to Digg your latest blog post
If the content is good, we’ll Digg it. You sound needy & desperate. Please stop.
7. Write long essays that span over 3 or more tweets
140 characters. It’s a limit, not a guideline. We have all struggled with keeping our posts within this range but we manage, why cant you?
8. Tweet more than 50 times a day
I don’t know about you, but it frustrates the hell outta me when I grab a few minutes to check my Twitter stream, only to find that someone has filled up the first 2 screens. It doesn’t matter how much I like you or how valuable the content, when you are so prolific that I can draw your profile pic from memory, my mouse starts moving uncontrollably toward the Unfollow button. Unless you are live tweeting an event, space them tweets out OK?
9. Tweet nothing else but what song you are listening to
We can’t actually hear the music so we don’t care what you are listening to. It’s as simple as that.
10. And finally, do all of the above combined.
Can you imagine someone who swears in 200 tweets a day which ask for Digg love in a series of “continued…” tweets with unexplained links? That person would be dropped like a bad habit before you could say “RT: @me @you Hey, I’ve sent you a DM telling you what song I’m listening to. & guess what? I have 300 followers, oh no, make that 299, 298…”
This article was done by Heidi, aka Snowgoose. Please direct all animosity appropriately 
vincenthofmann
SheBee
AcademicGeek
gogi
gobz
cath-jenkin
JuicyJustin
BlindCripple
supercopygurl
Green_Guerrilla
Cassey
romeogeek
steve-tech
beetle001
Thanks for publishing my twitter rant. I hope everyone takes it in the spirit it was intended: Tongue-in-cheek.
I love laughing at myself, I do some of these things, so lets all have a big chuckle at ourselves!
hahah.
i am a ‘noteable exception’?
no, my potty mouth also *totally* gets me mass-unfollowed. but have made peace with that.
am not going to self-censor, so people must exercise the democratic choice.
Follow or unfollow?
If you choose the latter, don’t be surprised when i unfollow you right back.
Democratic choice and all that.
I just started using twitter and had no idea you’re not supposed to swear. Hectic.
oh. and i do all of the above, regularly.
except retweeting without qualifing my tweet with some explanation.
and. also. and. i pimp myself and my blog, on the regular like.
but i. do. not. care..
i love twitter.
and to the person that said ‘just because you can tweet whenever and wherever you like, doesn’t mean you should’?
i disagree immensely. because you can do it, means you should.
simple.
Hey! Im a potty mouth too! totally endorse it. Is f**king honest.
here here
i dont get the swearing thing though..people are odd about that
Hehe love this list… I can relate to some of them… that’s exactly why I’ve unfollowed some people.
I can add one… having incessant endless conversations with one other tweeter… seriously that’s what IM and email is for!
Add one more to the list… the biggest one of all… using Twitter as an IM. It irritates me to no end to see how South Africans seems to have discussions over Twitter.
@blade @cath @exmi I dont really get the swearing one either. I don’t mind it but it is a major thing for some people. Oh well, each to their own I suppose.
I find RT’s generally annoying and it’s the fastest way for me to unfollow someone. Some people don’t tweet, they just RT – and even worse, prefix their RT’s with adjectives. “Nice RT, Cute RT” etc.
Geezuz.
And the swearing thing, I suspect I’ve lost a few because of it, but honestly I couldn’t really give a fuck who unfollows me, with the exception of a few, I’m not really to phased. I’d probably still tweet with Zero followers.
I agree on most points, but also believe that you have to be real. Remember, this is a social media platform and you cannot like everyone all the time and censor people. We can’t all appear be robots and tweet up tiny uRLs linking to business reports and advertisements.
Above all, remember to be respectful. See my social media tips on today’s blog for my 5 personal recommendations about Social Media relating to Twitter. It seems to be basic ‘golden rule’ stuff. Most of all, social media has to remain and in the hands of the users. Opt in, opt out…just have fun.
Heidi,
I stopped following you because you spoke about being in the traffic all the time. I got damn boring.
I would add people that tweet ‘inspirational’ quotes all the time.
Is it wrong that I’m going to follow some of these people just because they DO swear?
i probably lose some because im obsessed with footballer fernando torres and after liverpool fc won against man united on saturday a few people may have got fed up:) but it was a historic defeat that has broken records since 1936.
i didnt know people objected to retweets per se, but what i object to are people who have nothing interesting to say themselves, they only follow and communicate with celebs. i follow anyone who interests me whether they are famous or not, and as i am open-minded i’ll follow everyone who follows me until they irritate me by trying to sell something, or as you say skiting about how many followers they have. its just for fun, why do people have t make things competitive?
quite hard to do all of that.
and people you insist on having private two way conversations with answers that have no context
I hate those ‘inspirational quotations’ people Tweet. What a waste of time. And so easy to automate. Stop.
I tell what people shouldn’t tweet – “top 10 dos and donts of twitter”. Let people use twitter how they want, its up to you whether you follow someone or not. Stop inflicting your own twitter usage criteria on us.
Not bad, not bad… a little too benign, though, would have liked to see more fangs. I just posted something “similar but different” on “crappy marketing” on Twitter… if you stop by, put your helmet on..
SCHMUCK ALERT!! What’s So Bad About Marketing on TWITTER?!
Best wishes,
Sam
Damn.
I agree about the inspirational quotes, they drive me to distraction.I also untweet people who do nothing but post urls all day long. Speak to us, for heaven sake! Good article, though – provoke some thoughts and some unfollows….
mkpelland
http://www.ontext.com
Hilarious is somehow not as funny as fucking hilarious, and absolutly fucking amazing is just about as amazing as you can get. And WTF is up with f@*k, we all know what you are saying, like that fucking anoying beep on telivision.
Funny to read since I am guilty of a few things mentioned. For me, Twitter is a place to socialize, share a few links, get a few links, laugh and sometimes lend support. Everyone is different and to each his/her own on how they work it. I’m grateful for the people in my followers list but it’s not my life’s mission to gain 1,000′s to achieve a number. I’m a social face to face and I tweet exactly how I talk, so take me as I am. Looking forward to more posts from you!
Lisa
I always worry about being too prolific but, gee, if your limit is 50 times a day, I can certainly live with that! I don’t tweet anywhere near that much. And a lot of my tweets are @replies and my followers can choose whether to get all, some or none.
Swearing doesn’t bother me – I would never unfollow someone for that. It’s the same as conversation – there’s offensive swearing and then there’s peppering your sentences with swear words, almost like punctuation. I don’t personally swear on Twitter, mainly because I don’t swear a lot in real life and only in certain company.
Qwitter has only worked for me intermittently. It didn’t work at all for months, then it worked for a few days, and now it doesn’t work again. I don’t actually think it tells you what tweet they unfollowed you after. It’s meant to do that but I suspect that it actually works by checking at a certain time to see who has unfollowed you and then it taking the most recent of your tweets at that time.
Well! What you have said here says more about you than it does about other
people! I’d like to answer your points:
1. Although I have never tweeted about the number of people I have or don’t yet
have following me, I can understand why these things are exciting to some
people and I bear them no resentment for wanting to share that. Far from
unfollowing them to burst their bubble, I will tweet an introduction to them and try
to help them increase their circle of friends!
2. With several million people using Twitter there is every chance that you have
relatively few friends in common with others in your circle who have 1000
followers – this was not a well thought out remark at all. Retweeting is also a
quick way of saying ‘hear hear’ and endorsing what someone else has said. Are
you such a slow reader that this is a big problem for you?
3. I do not have any kind of alarm that tells me when new e-mails arrive and,
since I receive and average of 180 – 200 a day, I have no plans to use one. If
people send me e-mails and don’t tell me they have done so it may take several
hours for me to find them. Instead of feeling jealous and left out, why don’t you
ask the person you want to have a longer conversation with to exchange e-mail
addresses with you? Usually, people are asking for, or offering, advice or it is a
work-related communication – would you jealous if your friend’s boss
telephoned with a reminder whilst you were having a coffee together?!
4. I make no exceptions for swearing in writing. In my opinion, other than erroneous adolescent attempts to appear adult, the use of swear words in spoken language is the product of laziness in finding the right word to express an idea. There is no excuse for doing the same thing when writing, an activity which is never enhanced by undue haste.
5. Although unlabelled links may not benefit from my clicking I can’t see the point of unfollowing someone who is otherwise interesting just because I don’t follow their links. Some of the most interesting people I follow never tweet links anyway, with or without descriptions!
6. We are agreed on this one! If you have to ask someone to Digg your posts they probably aren’t worthy of it. Better to ask people to read and comment on your post if ask you must.
7. Some of the funniest stories I have enjoyed on Twitter have spanned three or four tweets. On three occasions I have been asked something that has taken three or four tweets to tell. I have then apologised for my long-windedness and received a barrage of tweets telling me that, on the contrary, the story has been enjoyed by several other people who just happened to be following the conversation.
8. If someone you follow is tweeting more than you want to see, why not use Twalala to mute them either permanently or temporarily? If you don’t want to do that, then just get on with unfollowing people who tweet too much for you instead of trying to get them to suit your requirements! You are trying to change other people instead of accepting that the problem is yours, not theirs!
9. The music people choose to listen to tells one quite a lot about them and I don’t necessarily want to listen to Rachmaninov’s 9th whilst finding out that someone I know is a fan. Ignoring tweets that don’t interest one is very easy to do!
10. Frankly, this whole tirade says to me that the writer has a neurotic and controlling personality and not much besides! Sorry!
How about ONE rule for Twitter:
Instead of getting all worried about what other people might think or how they might react, do what you want, and if I don’t like you I’ll unfollow you.
@CraigN and @Philip Gibb:
If you are bothered by people having a conversation (ie. prefaced with an @username) then you should change your settings.
Twitter lets you elect to receive all @ replies or no @ replies (except the ones directly to you obviously). There’s also the middle (and in my view, best) position, which is where you get @ replies only when you follow the recipient as well as the sender.
So many people complain about the volume of @replies people send but you don’t have to get them – it’s totally optional. If you choose to get them because you like to eavesdrop and don’t want to miss out, that’s fine, but you shouldn’t then complain about it.
People can’t necessarily switch to DM – for starters, it’s not always warranted given the above. Secondly, it requires both parties to follow each other in order to actually have a two-way conversation.
Twitter is all about the conversation in my opinion.
Good list. Definitely some top reasons to stop following..
I sometimes wonder if my tweets are too innane, but some are conversational.. and frankly I treat it like a mini blog – and my blog is pretty innane!!
This is good information for a newbie Tweeter like me.
This post actually prompted me to Google search “Twitter Etiquette” to see what else is out there on this subject matter.
I came across an interesting and informative post by Joel Comm.
I think this story had hit it right on the nose, nice article.
@CraigN get over yourself.
Twitter is the new IRC – there is no doubt about it!
I nice reminder here for me today.
Learned some of these lessons the hard way. Of course I think sometimes it is necessary to do and experience these mistakes. Especially when you still are fairly new to Twitter.
I experienced a tweet combined with one part of my article ended up being more bragging/show off then helpful. Was a bit unsure if I should just take it off from my article, but I think I will keep as a lesson for myself.
Thanks for providing us with this list. Will be bookmarked – and I also send a tweet..
Cheers..
Although I reckon that it depends on how may people you follow.
whether you are going to stop following someone because of the above.
Some people follow over 10,000 people. There is just no way that you can reasonably be interacting with a group of people like that. And probably not notice some of the behavior from one of the people u follow.
although I have to admit that there is one person I notice that sometimes sends out tweets at a rate of over 10 a minute for a few minutes. Now I follow just over 200 and that was beginning to annoy me. Next time he is a gonna.
@Linnet Woods:oh my iam impressed
but not a very bad list thuogh i dont get the unfollow for RT thing and swear thing!!!
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@CraigN
Sign this http://www.petitiononline.com/TROUTS/petition.html
@ExMi
I personally FUCKING love it when you slap me with a big wet trout.
My pet peeve is Twitterers that use TwitterFeed. Nothing irritates me more than to start reading one of these TwitterFeed Tweets only to have the text end abruptly mid-sentence or, more commonly, mid-word with an ellipsis and a TinyUrl. It doesn’t compel me to click through to your blog, it compels me to unfollow you!
@LucasGo yeah baby, i *knew* you liked it like that!!!!
I agree with each and every one of your points Goosey.
Especially the IM thing.
As I tweeted the other day (:P) to me twitter is not about two-way. It’s about me finding ppl to follow that I find interesting and add value to my brain. I don’t expect everyone that I follow to follow me back. It’s nice if they do, but maybe they’re more important than me. I look at everyone who follows me individually before I follow them back too. If you didn’t make the cut, sorry, but @ me or RT me sometime and I’ll notice and re-evaluate you.
If you want to use twitter as IM, by all means…but DM it.
@replying is akin to shouting across a crowded room. Only do it if you’re adding value to the party.
If you want IRC… http://www.tinychat.com
/obligatory I do some of these sometimes comment, fuck yeah.
@Caitlin While I know you can change settings and so forth, it still doesn’t mean (l)users should abuse an “update” service with conversations. Note that Twitter is defined as:
@ExMI IRC is long dead, get over it.
Well! What awesome comments.
I have to second a couple of the commenters here: there’s an unfollow option, use it!
Swearing for marketing brands and corporates I can understand as a no-no, afterall they are representing something bigger than themselves. But like Heidi stated above, in real life we all swear in each others company, so if you’re using your own twitter account, why the hell not?
Kudos to the Snowgoose, she’s raised some serious debate.
Nick:
Amen. To the rest? I respectfully disagree with you. Unfollow FTW!
Damn! With this article I lost all my daily doings on twitter.com
now I’ve to find new challenges on twitter … br, kms
@CraigN
Things evolve – get over it
Imagine a world where we stuck to mere definitions. Pass me a blade while I hang myself, thanks.
Twitter is what you want it to be, customise your stream, we all have a choice.
@CraigN notice the use of the words ‘frequent’ and ‘exchange’
open to interpretation, no?
i think so.
“conversation” = frequent exchange of words.
you can either choose to listen, you can even participate, or you can un-listen. Or unfollow as it were.
No biggie.
oh, and @CraigN i was wondering how long before some bright spark brought the definition of twitter into the debate and said ‘look here, i rest my case’
@NickJackson lol i just read your comment now. keeping a conversation to DM isn’t always possible – often there isn’t a two-way follow in place, and then the one side cannot DM. also, i cannot DM from my phone – twitter on mobile web is very limited on my phone. Apologies. Thus I am forced to ‘shout across the room’ often.
But. Like you once told me. All rules have exceptions. And pretty girls are the exceptions, right?
@ExMi You use m.twitter.com? Yuk. m.slandr.net ft mobile w! Or, there are apps.
hmmm…
@nickjackson i do. m.slandr is very limited on my phone. have not-so-fancy Samsung. due for upgrade soon, thank fuck.
Great article…I’m still pretty new and trying to keep my tweets to simple interesting things, maybe the occasional plug for my blog, but mostly just to interact with other people. Thanks for the ideas.
HAHAHHAA. this list is golden. Will keep all in mind.
LMAO – I tell you one never knows how to… oh be-have!
However you can spend lots of time tweeting away and not notice it, is there medication for that yet?
Tweet Tweet Tweetie Goodbye!
Thanks for the great info. I’m new to all this and need all the tips I can get.
Love the list — would like to add: I will unfollow you if you exhibit the deadly combination of tweet often + BORING sh@t. I have unfollowed many ’cause the tweets depressed me with their blahness! OK every now and then — but if that’s all ya got, seriously, life is too short!
Love the list — would like to add: I will unfollow you if you exhibit the deadly combination of tweet often + BORING sh@t. I have unfollowed many ’cause the tweets depressed me with their blahness! (watching TV, stuck in traffic, deciding what to have for lunch, etc.) OK every now and then — but if that’s all ya got, seriously, life is too short!
I love this article – I unfollow for all these reasons! If anything, my following list just gets smaller. I dont really go out looking for new people to follow, but sometimes give new followers a chance.
@CraigN – agree with the IM thing, my sentiments exactly.
Interesting article I must say that I use twitter to break up the boredom of working at home alone.
Now, when I get an announcement that someone new is now following me I will read their bio and if they happen to be interested in at least one the things that I am interested in then I will follow them, but following people just because they are following me I don’t think that that is really a valid reason to follow anyone.
It’s a numbers game, but I believe in the quality of a following not just the quantity.
Thanks for the article.
I do some of this stuff. Meh, I’ll let the chips fall where they may
From what I have seen on Twitter, people having the traits you mentioned (sometime all of these in single person) enjoy 1000+ followers
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Great post, Steve! Can you also add: “Having conversations with followers.”
Its okay to do a little back and forth that has meat to it, but some tweeters derail the whole Twitter experience with “no content” chat-room style banter that no one would understand (or gain value from) except the people conversing. Um, did Instant Messenger and Skype suddenly go down? Did they not realize there’s a Twitter private message option? Seriously, take it somewhere else.
I don’t know about anyone else, but the times when I unfollow it’s usually because of constant chattering… and when I go check out their profile for one last redeeming chance if it’s two pages of chit chat… no question, it’s an unfollow. I love following lots of people but I need to make room for those with something to SAY!
So change who you are so you keep followers or be yourself and keep followers that are interested in who you are?
Your point is valid – these are great concepts in why you lose followers. But ultimately, losing them might not be the end of the world.
All good points. Cursing seems to truly be the kiss of death on Twitter. I think I’ve only ever banished two Twitter friends and one was overt porn spam and the other was for cursing.
Don’t forget #11. People who follow but don’t contribute tweets or post an avatar image. whassup wid dat?
Nice article. I love tweeting about music among other things, and I don’t care if it gets me unfollowed. Those who follow me know that I’m going to do my stream of consciousness thing anyway.
I love being able to get it out of my system, and I don’t have that many followers in the first place.
All very true.
If I may here are some others.
Like Joel Comm said: Don’t PITCH!
Maybe it’s just me yet there are a lot of SEO-related people who market and know how to create sales funnels
DON’T get your fellow Tweeters into them
they know how they work
they know tech-related stuff (at least most of them do)
so don’t waste your time. THAT I guess you can add as number 11
However, people for the most part “Get It” Go US!
Great stuff. Now to Unfollow myself
That is great advice! Hopefully, everyone will pay heed… Thanks!
Now I know!
Thanks for this one…Appropriate twitter behavior can be summed up in two words: Common Sense. c”,
I’m a fairly new twitterer and wondered about the @ that appears when I respond to someone’s tweet. Is that what this “how to get un-followed” is referring to in rant #3? I prefer not to annoy people…
Thanks for the clues…
Penny
Actually, music tweets are useful.
If you follow someone due to their music taste, then it’s quite relevant and a great way to find new music, in addition to sites like last.fm of course!
@bennglazier
How to lose Twitter followers in 10 steps….
Since the advent of Twitter, and more recently, Qwitter, we have all been able to feed our strange compulsion to know exactly how popular we all are. The race to see who can gain more followers has consumed some South African Twitter users way beyond w…
Lol, the Twitter Police are out in force again. Actually, I can make it really simple for everyone: If you like a person’s tweets, follow them. If you don’t, don’t. Less of the Top 10 lists and more interaction with your friends on Twitter.
Cheers, Ian
Absolutely loving all the comments guys! Thanks!
Just a few points to note: The list was tongue-in-cheek and not to be taken too seriously. I do these things too – and have been unfollowed ‘en-masse’ for doing some of them but really – should we care how many followers we have?
Twitter represents something different for everyone who uses it and that’s what makes it great – it is hard to define, impossible to pin down and totally addictive!
But the interaction is great! Keep it coming!
Yes. I unfollowed a guy who sent a link with the description “saw something funny today” or similar, and found a page that wasn’t funny even in the sense of bad humor -funny. It didn’t have an indication of funny on it.
I unfollowed a guy who tweeted the songs he’s listening to. I don’t care!
I unfollowed a girl who was so chatty, that all I could read about was an ice-cream someone stole from her the day before. I mean REALLY!!
And now that you mention it, I would be rather shocked if I’d see the F-word on Twitter. How odd! I don’t mind softer words though, like bugger or darn it.
This is really helpful for those of us who are new. It is simply etiquette. It may be a reminder for those who violate the courtesy rules. If people use foul language, I will not follow.
I have to say…I am thinking about unfollowing someone who posts too many times a day and always asks for retweets and diggs. Time will tell…
Too funny.
I received a tweet about this page (great points BTW) from someone who consistently violates #s 7 & 8 and is on my short list of unfollows very soon if he doesn’t change his ways.
Hello… My name is Briget.. and I twitter..
…because I can
You follow?
I think David Pogue / NY Times sums it up nicely.
‘Twitter is what you make it’
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue.html?scp=5&sq=pogue%20twitter&st=cse
Check it out and his encounter with Twitter founder when asked about the ‘Rules’
@Snowgoose
Good article though
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Waht’a a twitter,
must be some kind of bird.
Stru!
Agh give me a break its a twit with a stutter!!!
OH!
Hey there are some cool comments here should we stay and twitter?
Are you mocking me?
They are talking about okes what follow other oke and they listen , you now like cheaters?
Nuh
Stru!
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Hey there’s your picture!!!
Nuh!!
Stru!
Ja i told you teyed catch you out if you went around stuttering at every one.
Eeesh!
Hey Urkyle I figured out a way to loose these twitter okes.
Mmm..
Pay attention man!
What?
These twitter okes, how to loose them and I don’t even have to walk one step. You said they was twits what stutter right, you still got your picture stuck up all over the place because you said it.
Don’t speak so loud you’ll wake the rest of them, So how?
Give em a dictionary to read out loud. Ha!
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I unfollow people who tweet about how offended they are by people swearing on twitter.
About Retweeting: I’ve seen several folks who recommend it. Their logic is that with some people getting hundreds or thousands of tweets a day, re-tweeting is a way to make sure you are heard.
I retweet on occasion–mostly if I’m offering something, like a free e-book. I don’t have time in my day to go through all the tweets I get, so I appreciate a retweet of useful posts.
I just began tweeting a couple of days ago, so I’m still finding my way.
Great list. I just started tweeting and I’m honestly not sure how I ended up following some of the people I did.. but some of them certainly have a lot to say about nothing, and 20 tweets per day about nothing is kind of irritating..
Scott
Nationwide ACS, Inc.
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