A million Twitter followers? Great! Three followers that do stuff you want. Better.

2607765 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:34:00 GMT

Amen. Twitter stops auto-follow and thwarts ‘gamers’ (for now at least).

Not that anyone who would read this blog would even CONSIDER bloating their Twitter friend counts of course, but if you were that sort of person (and I don’t recommend you start) you might want to think twice because Twitter is about to outlaw those bad practices and start deleting offenders accounts.

How are they growing them? It’s simple really – follow a sh!t ton of people and then un-follow the one’s that don’t follow you back. Rinse and repeat. [Meercat voice] Siiiimple.

I know why people do it but personally speaking, I’ve never really seen the point (or real-world results) of gaming Twitter this for a number of reasons but the main one is that three people can be more influential than three million if the last three million aren’t sharers? Why not just offer um… really great content?!

What do you think? Do you agree that auto-follow should be banned? Comment below or tweet me @munkyfonkey / @themediaisdying

LINKBAIT:

Scoopler : real-time search (6/10 – IMHO) [Scoopler]

The difference between strategy and tactics. [B.L. Ochman]

A super simple way to ‘create’ content and push it around networks. [Amplify]

Future of reporting? NYT pulls in Tweets, videos and eye-witness accounts from Tehran [NYTimes]

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A million Twitter followers? Great! Three followers that do stuff you want. Better.