Comments on: The Follower Myth

By: freerobby

freerobby — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:05:38 +0000

Ha, love it! Thanks for the link and the note.

By: jm3

jm3 — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:53:21 +0000

Agree 100%. This is exactly why we built Bet Your Followers, to poke fun at the hypothesis that followers are fungible currency: http://betyourfollowers.com/dear_twitter

By: boblatchford

boblatchford — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:49:31 +0000

Very well written article. Everyone has different interests and you shouldn't just follow if someone has thousands of followers. When people follow me I don't always follow back – I check their Bio and some of their tweet history. I allow for approx 20% promotion of their own material but if they are too spammy I block them. MLM instant block, porn instant block. Even the guys at Bitrebels like @minervity push the boundary – 99% of their tweets are links to old content on their sites – luckily most of the content is interesting so it doesn't get blocked.

By: MK Safi

MK Safi — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:13:48 +0000

I definitely agree with your overall analysis and that you should just check the bio and the tweets, if they're interesting, follow. But you can still judge a person's popularity from the f/F ratio. Scoble is an exception, not the rule. And even though Scoble follows a lot, he still has a high ratio of more than 1:5!