Thread: [Tips]When & Who To Follow Back On Twitter

There are tons of spammers on Twitter these days. If we’re all there, so are the spammers. But there you will find business leaders, politicians, celebrities, social workers, and just great people too.

But the question raises is that when & who to follow back? What things should look in someone's profile and decided to follow or not follow him back? This thing mainly based upon your personal interest what you are looking in someone's profile but here I am sharing some tips that you should consider when following someone back.

1. Is the profile an actual person?

There should be a real person behind that profile. If he is just promoting his business and 50% or more of his tweets are just "hey come and see us" or "50% off only today" etc then this is one-sided relationship. You should avoid getting involve in these relationships because they are not going to be any beneficial for you.

2. Does the profile have valid no. of followers?

There are plenty of programs available there to mass subscribe or unsubscribe twitter users and many people use them to mass follow people and after some time they mass unsubscribe them and this way they get more followers than the one they are following. In most of such cases they have very few no. of tweets but thousands of followers. Do not follow them back.

3. Content:

If you don't find anything interesting in the profile then don't follow it back. It doesn't mean that it should be a most-relevant content but it should be something that should get your interest.

Tweets like, watching TV, going to market, wearing shoes and blah blah.. are also not going to make the profile look any good. Try to avoid follow or follow back such profiles.

I hope you understand when and who to follow back and now you will be having a good experience on twitter

Great article!
My first clue on who to follow or not is usually by the avatar, I seem to check the avatar first when I get me email notice.. Here some of my conclusions
(a) sexy pose (nudity) mostly likely adult related
(b) Dollar/Euro sign probably a promoter!

I also get a kick out of those "Get thousand of followers" DM's that I get right after I follow back..funny thing is that these people seem to have less than a hundred followers..

May I know why the link back to the original article has been removed?

I published an informative article here, do I not have the right to link back to the original author's site?

Originally Posted by Jani

May I know why the link back to the original article has been removed?

I published an informative article here, do I not have the right to link back to the original author's site?

You linked back to a webmasters forum, something you have been told not to do countless times yet you continue to do so.

This tips needed to follow. Because twitter right now is full of spamming. I agree with this Is the profile an actual person? because your effort would be worthless if you are just following those person who also doing internet marketing. BTW, twitter can give you a strong traffic if you handled it properly.

Originally Posted by riderbabygurl

This tips needed to follow. Because twitter right now is full of spamming. I agree with this Is the profile an actual person? because your effort would be worthless if you are just following those person who also doing internet marketing. BTW, twitter can give you a strong traffic if you handled it properly.

Yes, I agree!
Twitter attracts lot´s of spammers, so it´s important to know who you should follow and who not!
Very nice article!

Great article...thanks for sharing indeed

Good tips, here is another good article on how to not be a: 15 Most Annoying Types of Twitter Users

Very nice article! I agree.. it´s important to know who you should follow and who not!