The Twitter House Rules
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009I decided to outline what makes me follow or not follow people on Twitter. I control and moderate my follow list pretty closely in order to keep my twitter feed both rich and relevant to me.
Here’s what makes me follow someone/thing on Twitter:
- I actually know you, in the ‘real’ world
- You live locally and share common interest with me
- You discuss something I’m actively intereted in
- You reply and/or make conversation on Twitter when I direct a comment at you
- You direct a comment at me about something I said, then discuss it with me
- You regularely post ammusing or relevant Tweets
- You are famous and I am a fan (although some of the above still apply)
Here’s some things that get you taken off my follow list:
- You haven’t said anything relevant to me in a while or that’s caught my interest or funnybone
- You haven’t tweeted in a while
- You tweet too much and the majority of it is of no interest to me
This will get you blocked ad infiinitum:
- You insult or defame me, racially, sexually or just plain verbally abuse me or friends, collegues or people or things I’m a fan and/or supporter of.
- You constantly try and waste my time with political or religious arguments or rhetoric
- You tweet offensive or lewd material or horrible jokes (horrible as in graphic or disgusting)
- You spam me with commerical crap all the time
Here’s a few things to consider if you follow me and I don’t follow you back, or I stop following you:
- Don’t be offended. It’s probably no slight against you, I just don’t find yout tweets relvant.
- What you are ‘all about’ isn’t relevant to me. I get followed by a lot of people promoting events and websites that I am not interested in.
- I’m not a serial follower. I pick and choose carefully.
- Your profile looks spammy, or I can’t tell from it what your MO is.
So there you go, I can’t really make it much clearer 
