3 Reasons Why I am Not Following You On Twitter

3 Reasons Why I Am Not Following You On Twitter

Posted on June 26, 2009
Filed Under Personal | 7 Comments

I have been on Twitter for a year or so now. It started out being fun and I enjoyed keeping up with what other PF bloggers were doing and thinking. It was a small group and we helped each other. When someone followed me, I returned the favor.

As with all good things, Twitter went downhill fast and I learned to be more selective about who I followed. I started only following people who had some connection to personal finance or self improvement. Now, I have started to look at how many updates people have when they follow me. So here is my list of 10 reasons why I am not following you on Twitter:

Too many updates. If you follow me and have more than 1,000 updates, I am probably not going to follow you. You can’t have that much to say that I want to read.
Every twit you make is for a coupon or affiliate link that is probably going to make you money and cost me. I’m just not into it. I guess some people are but not me.
Every twit you make is sending me to your blog. I use twitter to keep up with the more personal stuff. If I like your blog, I am probably subscribed. Post announcements are fine but if that’s the only thing you twit about I will probably end up not following.

So I guess this makes me a little cranky this morning but as I look at my Twitter feed, all I see is spam. Very few personal updates and very little that I am even interested in looking at. The ones who twit the most seem to have the least to say. I glanced through about 100 coupon/savings links before I got to anything interesting. I ended up dropping about 19 different people.

Is it just me? Do other people feel the same way? Is Twitter the new hotspot of Spam?

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7 Responses to “3 Reasons Why I Am Not Following You On Twitter”

The Weakonomist (2 comments.) on June 26th, 2009 9:37 am

I wrote about this a few months ago myself. It was unnamed at the time but I now call it Twitter fatigue. I refuse to follow more than around 100 people because after that it gets to be too much.

The ones that get me are the constant requests to stumble tip digg or whatever your posts kill me. I unfollow those people.

I enjoy Twitter and get a lot out of it. As a Twitter geek though I must point out that we tweet, not twit. I’m a dork I know.
cindys on June 27th, 2009 7:39 am

Weak, I just have to say that some folks tweet but some most definitely twit. Twitter fatigue is probably a pretty good name for it.
Deneil Merritt (2 comments.) on June 27th, 2009 9:15 am

A lot of people are forgetting to get out of business mode and start being personal. This is why I only follow people I want to see their updates on twitter.
marci on June 29th, 2009 10:25 am

Thanks for the candid look at it. I’ve been wondering about ‘joining’ but it seemed like too much intrusion into my life. Think I’ll just continue with the email subscriptions, that I can delete with the click of a button, or read at my leisure, as I feel like at the moment.
RateNerd (1 comments.) on July 11th, 2009 8:31 pm

I am not a huge Twitter fan – all my updates go on Twitter but lately all I see is more and more spam. Its easy to get thousands of followers, the trick is to get ones who matter and care. Could be yesterdays news any day now.
cindys on July 11th, 2009 9:42 pm

RateNerd, I actually like twitter but I have learned to be a lot more selective about who I follow.
sus|bank charges (6 comments.) on July 17th, 2009 12:36 am

I had learned about this but still don’t use it. So its doesn’t matter who to follow.