I don’t know why, but I just do.
The problem is I don’t like Twitter that much.
I mean I don’t like all the boneheads out there who use it for nefarious purposes like marketing, coaching and inspiration.
Bastards.
I prefer to use Twitter for things like this..
That’s Merlin Mann, aka @hotdogsladies. He usually tweets funny stuff. He has almost 190,000 followers on Twitter yet hardly follows anyone back. He seldom answers anyone either.
My hero!
Here’s some more..
Sometimes I try to be like Merlin..
But I’ve never broken a thousand followers. It was around 600 for the longest time and now it hovers around 800, most of whom I don’t know and I doubt they read a damned thing I post.
I know some of you do though.. thank you!
I’m not all about the followers on Twitter anyway. Well, if I had like four or something it’d be disconcerting, because one of them would be my wife, two would be my cats and the fourth would be a lady in Wisconsin who wants me to click on her ETSY page but what I mean is that I have around 800 and I bet most of them don’t know I exist.
This is because the main tactic on Twitter seems to be to follow people solely to get them to follow you back, which is a tactic I’ve never engaged in, which is the main reason I’ve never risen above the 1000 follower mark.
But I just can’t do that. If you’ve done it then I’m not saying you’re a bad person, I’m just saying you oughta sell cars.
I seem to go through phases where I won’t follow anyone back for a while, then a certain mood strikes me and I follow everyone back, but I don’t read anything they post. Then I use Friend Or Follow to see who unfollowed me after I followed them back after they followed me first, and I unfollow them if they unfollowed me.
It’s more fun than angry birds!
I’m especially pleased when I get some guy following me who sells real estate in Boise and has 42,387 followers, because I just know he wants to get a good laugh from my comedic gems and he certainly doesn’t want to sell me a condo.
So I follow him back as a courtesy and about a week later he unfollows me. His tweets always say things like “fixer-upper on the east-side near a Wendy’s and Cleveland Elementary school!”
It’s too bad he unfollowed me because I really wanted to direct message him to meet me there at noon on Sunday for a showing.
Of course we all know that these type of Twitter users sign-up with an automation program that does all of the following and unfollowing for them, so no, they don’t know I exist. They don’t know you exist either. But the bots do.
Bots are the things the automation program sends out to monitor tweets and follow people en masse, and the more you tweet the more of this you get.
So THAT’S why I haven’t broken a thousand followers, it’s because I don’t tweet enough!
This must change, so I’m going to tweet more. As I do, the bots will swarm in and follow me, and a lot of them will unfollow me even after I follow them back, but some won’t.
I know you won’t either, so follow me. I’ll even read your tweets and then, once we know each other better, we can head to Boise and check-out that fixer-upper.
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