I’ve been on Twitter for a couple months now, and some fishy things have finally started to make sense:
Fishy thing #1: People would “un-follow” me and then “follow” me back a few days later. Did they hate my tweets one day and love them the next?
Fishy thing #2: Really weird Tweets, some from really weird profiles – for example:
And some really weird tweets from legitimate sounding folks I thought I might like to network with – like the female real estate agent in New Hampshire who tweeted about – um, “male enlargement” pills.
Fishy thing #3: Well, not so fishy, really – since Ponzi devised his first scheme, people have been looking to game the system. So “Get Thousands of Twitter Followers a Day – Just $55” services shouldn’t be a big surprise.
Does a Large Twitter Following Equate to Success?
What I’ve begun to realize is that many people mistakenly believe that having thousands of Twitter followers equals success. Some fellow Twitterers and I had a discussion a few weeks back on this topic. About game-the-system techniques like auto follow/unfollow and auto tweeting, one Twitterer asked, “Does it really work?”
Joshua Dorkin
