Has Twitter Jumped the Shark
April 3, 2008 · Print This Article
So to speak ? Or at least Twitter users. I don’t know about you but I have really noticed a big jump in the number of what I will call “fishing followers.” You all know the type. They are the ones who follow you in hopes that you will follow back. However, I am not the just follow everyone back type. I like to gain some value out my Twitter use.
In any case, I have been seeing an alarming number of followers with a huge ration gap of Following to Followers. And their twitter streams usually boil down to a bit of spam (see Nick O’Neill’s post on Twitter etiquette).
For instance here a couple I have received in the last few days tripixdesigns and even better was this one subbiejournal (this is an interesting one, check out the blog .. says her “Master” was sick the other day, so no spankings for her :))
Anyway, as this trend continues to increase, I wonder is this the future of Twitter. is it to become the next MySpace where we are barraged with spam of all sorts and our meaningful converstaions with each other get lost in the mix ?
Have anyone else noticed this ? Any thoughts ?
No– because of the way relationships are structured, followers you don’t care about don’t really get in your way (outside of the initial email notice).
I picked up about 40 followers the other day…surprising most were good followers…mutual tweeters. However, I haven’t noticed a large influx of these types of followers. I always check the new follower’s twitter stream and website to see if I will return the follow.
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I have received a couple followers out of no where. I think there are going to be two types - the trophy seekers and those who use it legitimately as a communication tool. Hopefully, there will never be any tweets telling me how I can “increase my member and satisfy her more.”
If someone starts to follow me, I’ll look at their last few tweets, if it’s what I want, I’ll follow. If not, won’t.
Got to keep the noise level down.
At the end of the day, you have to deliver value through your tweets/status updates, see
http://www.jer979.com/igniting-the-revolution/outlook-twitter-facebook-starting-a-conversation/