Why, when I join twitter, do I get pounced on by Internet mentors, network and referrals experts, all wanting to follow me?
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In short, a good percentage of Twitter users will follow someone who has followed them first. So, these Internet Marketing folks watch for people to follow and add them automatically.
Here is a paid service that promotes the tactic:
http://tweetergetter.com/
As a general rule, I don't follow anyone with over 20,000 followers unless I seek them out. This will keep your ratio of followers to following solid and cut down on the Twitter noise. I also actively un-follow people who over tweet things that don't matter to me.
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There are others that simply follow as many people as they can because, let's be honest, they are like sheep.
I wouldn't worry about a lot of people following you, just make sure that you don't follow back unless you really mean to, or it will be so irritating that you won't enjoy using Twitter for too long. Also, take advantage of the blocking feature in case somebody is exceptionally annoying, like those idiots posting messages about free laptops and making $500 per day doing nothing.
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I agree with both these answers. I'm on a new Twitter account because I got tired of the spam accounts following me. Now, I'm much more active with the block button.
Simply put, if you're not into the things I'm interested in, I don't care to "get my free laptop" or follow marketing experts. They're only interested in following you long enough to push up their follower numbers, at which point they stop following you, or they want to you visit the spam link in the profile.
The core group of followers I have now that I follow in return are all either interesting to me, or involved in the same industry as me.
