Twitter Followers Mean Nothing
September 15th, 2009The number of twitter followers you have no longer counts for much. There was a day when having 500, 1000, or 10,000 followers was impressive. It meant a huge number of people had opted into communicating with you because they liked you, your message, or your product. However, between spam accounts and auto-follow practices it’s easier than ever to get a huge ‘following’ of thousands of people who aren’t listening to you.
I believe a far better way to measure your effectiveness on twitter is around the idea of influence and interaction. How many people retweet or ‘@reply’ you? How many folks are talking about you or with you? Those are the real questions you should be asking. Your goal on twitter should be an authentic community, not a huge fake following.
*Twitalyzer is a great app for analyzing your twitter influence.
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October 5th, 2009
Thank you! I could give a rat’s behind how many people are following another. I just care if their tweets have quality content that I care about. I wish there wasn’t a single person following me that wasn’t genuinely interested in me and the tweets I find interesting enough to put out there.
“10,000 followers in 3 days. Learn how!”
Pssh. Resurrect in three days! That’s impressive!
Your followers are lamesauce, Twitter spammer guy.
October 5th, 2009
Thanks for chiming in Scott. Love the line “Your followers are lamesauce…” haha!