Thread: Twitter - Wuzz up with random people following me?

Anyone use twitter and get random people following you?

Anyone not use twitter and get random people following you?

Here's the scenario I signed up for a twitter account a while back. Never used it, maybe twitted (err tweeted) once, haven't been following anyone, and haven't even logged in a few months. Basically I just signed up for the account to reserve my name of choice for when/if I wanted to tweet at some time in the future.

Now about 2 or 3 times a week I get some random person, normally from somewhere in North America 'following' me. Why? There's nothing to follow.. Do they gain something by following more people? ..I'm confused...That's not hard to do anyhow.

they could have clicked the wrong thing, mistyped something or it is Colleen, Zap and myself all stalking you through different accounts

Also it could be people trying to do what they did to myspace. The more friends you have the more valuable your profile is or some jazz like that

Originally Posted by Big Dan

maybe twitted (err tweeted)

Lol

I was gonna say it's cause you're cute but you probably don't have your picture up on there yet.

I too have 2-3 guys every week as new followers, dunno from where the hell they drop in ;-)

Could be just people trying to get YOU to follow them back.

yeah fast submit article i agree... you can actually add a plugin in your wordpress so that you can update your twitter account pretty easily.

Originally Posted by Dr Teeth

I too have 2-3 guys every week as new followers, dunno from where the hell they drop in ;-)

It's a federal thing, we've been on to you for some time. Please go stand by the door and wait for the officers to arrive.

Originally Posted by FastSubmitArticl

Could be just people trying to get YOU to follow them back.

Yah, this is what they are doing. I've done it myself to great success when I worked at a newspaper. I simply followed everyone within a 10-mile radius of our coverage area and about 50% of the people I followed followed me back. It's a very effective way to gain followers.

Maybe they hope you check them out and increase their blog traffic from visiting!

It's the point of twitter right? to spam people you don't know!

twitter is like spam link heaven isn't it?

I have some timsdd guy following me... He's pretty random.

Maybe someone just likes what your into?
doesn't twitter have a search function? maybe they found some info in your profile they like as well.

And maybe it's spam.. I've had a few ppl follow me that will be following thousands of ppl and have 500 or so following them... cuz when someone follows me, I get an email telling me and asking if I want to follow them.. They are counting on ppl following them as well

Originally Posted by RyanFormspring

Yah, this is what they are doing. I've done it myself to great success when I worked at a newspaper. I simply followed everyone within a 10-mile radius of our coverage area and about 50% of the people I followed followed me back. It's a very effective way to gain followers.

lolz.

I get random people following me on every social network I've joined. I'm not active at any of them but, like you, at least once a week, I'll get an message that someone "wants to be my friend" or is "following me". It's enough to make you paranoid or something.

Just created a new account at twitter: Twitter / DealShouter

How do I get random people to follow me???
I am actually looking for that.

Well are random people following you not a good thing? I really need to get into twitter!