Jump Out of Your Skin

Like you I like to follow interesting people on Twitter and read their Tweets.  But occasionally (usually Mondays) I need to reduce the number of people I am following.  I use the Friend of Follow tool sometimes to do this.  I do not blindly unfollow in one fell swoop.  I use these tried and tested methods.

• If you haven’t tweeted in 3-4 weeks I unfollow.  Sorry I use Twitter as an information source for technology, fun, jokes and general news.  Silence is bad.
• If your overall number of updates is really low in proportion to your followers it implies (maybe incorrectly) that you are a spammer. Bye.
• If I cannot remember why I followed you in the first place.  Sometimes I just follow based on a #followfriday as I like the person who sent me the tweet about the person.  You cant always be right but if there has been no interaction since its adieu.

I like to follow lots of people as if makes sure that my twitter stream is varied.  I do more than one thing as I am sure you do too.  This is why on Twitter, my following is varied like my interests.  Your should be too but a regular cleanup is recommended just like house work.

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