Worried about lost followers? Don’t worry, you never had them.
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The talk at Twitter today was “Oh god, I lost 20 followers“; “20?! I lost 700 followers, how am I going to get them back now?“; “Just lost 345 followers. Twitter is acting up on me again #fail!” and so on, and so on.
Funny enough, the higher number of followers any given user had, bigger was their silence about loosing followers: Twitter vanity doesn’t allow it, I guess.
Apparently Twitter started a big spring cleaning last night. (As with everything around Twitter it only happens some months after it is actually needed) .
They did what they had to do: clean spam and fake accounts and in the process try to get some credit for doing it.
Of course they didn’t.
Twitter has turned into a race for the biggest number of followers no matter if they are legitimate users or spam bots.
So everyone kept complaining. And complaining. But I did not see a single tweet from anyone on TweetGrid saying:
@spambot42 Just stopped following 4242 people. What is going on @Twitter?
Doesn’t this make you think? Really! Doesn’t this make you think?
If you lost followers that means that someone on the other stopped following you!
How come those people were not complaining?
There is a very easy question to this one:
Because they were spam bots. And spam bots only exist to follow, and expect that the users go and click on their profile links.
So worry not about your lost followers because, the sad truth is, you never had them.
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If you, like me, keep a tidy followers list, you didn’t have this problem.
I lost none of my followers because every day I “waste” my time checking who is following me and blocking those that I see that are spam. It is worth it, believe me.
How to spot a Spam/Fake account:
1. The link on the profile is a tiny URL and not a complete one
2. Profile picture is empty / young woman / young man
3. No interaction or
3.1 Interaction with other Spam Botsgiving the idea of a dialogue
*This post was inserted here at the Home of Zargon 2 days after the DoS attack on Twitter.
Lol… Yeah, that makes me feel so much better that I never had those followers.
Excellent post! I do the same thing and take time going thru followers to make sure and weed out (block) the obvious spammers. I miss a few every now and then but it gives me pleasure to hit “block” .. just on principle.
I’ve been complaining about spam for a while now, calling out all those “I got 345 followers in 10 days using (insert spambot here)followers. But, your post reminded me to start blocking them. I think too much is made of follower numbers, and I’m happy when Twitter weeds out all of the spam. Thanks for the post.
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