[Tips]When & Who To Follow Back On Twitter

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  1. jani Designer

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    There are tons of spammers on Twitter these days. If we’re all there, so are the spammers. But there you will find business leaders, politicians, celebrities, social workers, and just great people too.

    But the question raises is that when & who to follow back? What things should look in someone's profile and decided to follow or not follow him back? This thing mainly based upon your personal interest what you are looking in someone's profile but here I am sharing some tips that you should consider when following someone back.

    1. Is the profile an actual person?

    There should be a real person behind that profile. If he is just promoting his business and 50% or more of his tweets are just "hey come and see us" or "50% off only today" etc then this is one-sided relationship. You should avoid getting involve in these relationships because they are not going to be any beneficial for you.

    2. Does the profile have valid no. of followers?

    There are plenty of programs available there to mass subscribe or unsubscribe twitter users and many people use them to mass follow people and after some time they mass unsubscribe them and this way they get more followers than the one they are following. In most of such cases they have very few no. of tweets but thousands of followers. Do not follow them back.

    3. Content:

    If you don't find anything interesting in the profile then don't follow it back. It doesn't mean that it should be a most-relevant content but it should be something that should get your interest.

    Tweets like, watching TV, going to market, wearing shoes and blah blah.. are also not going to make the profile look any good. Try to avoid follow or follow back such profiles.

    I hope you understand when and who to follow back and now you will be having a good experience on twitter :)

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  2. a4hire New Member

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    I hate all these women that want me to follow them on twitter. And the only thing in their profile is a link that says come and look at my ***y pictures, Im a slut blah blah blah. I always block them. They should all be banned from Twitter.
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    Very good information. I totally agree there are a lot and I mean a lot of spammers out there on twitter but what do you expect. They are all doing what we are trying to do legit. They are following the masses where they have a better chance of reaching people who might spend money with them.
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    Thanks for the very good and detailed information. I will definitely follow these tips when I use Twitter.
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    Great Article Jani , I usually do not follow anyone back unless it really interests me, with some RSS feeds going to my outlook account i have far to much to read already
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    i think on twitter it's a good thing you'll follow a person that have many followers... and think it's a great thing that you'll have a social networking accounts like myspace and facebook... so that you can get also followers from that :D
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    How sure are you that those you follow will follow you back? It depends on your tweets or profile. Do some tricks on your page like set up an interesting profile or share a good reading tweets.
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