I am currently sifting through over 3,000 (yes…3,000) people I follow on Twitter. I’m having a huge purging party because if I am even going to attempt to enjoy and use Twitter to the fullest, some things have got to change. Here are the unfortunate people getting the axe from me:
1) The “Make money online gurus”- These are the “marketing gurus” who swear they have the perfect program that will make me an obscenely rich millionaire just by driving traffic to my website for the low, low price of $500. What cracks me up is that in almost every profile picture of these guys they are wearing suits and slightly turned as they face the camera. I’m thinking they’re hiding something behind their backs….probably the money from the poor people they bamboozled. Me? Not interested. Not at all. Besides, if I had $500 to blow I sure as hell wouldn’t give it to a perfect stranger I’ve never met just for traffic to my site.
2) The “Make Money WAHMs”- Again, I’ve thoroughly investigated a TON of work at home jobs, because believe me, if their were something legit you could do to make fast money at home like they promise, I’d be doing it already. The truly authentic WAHMs that I know have busted their butts negotiating a deal to telecommute from a REAL employer or either started a product or service legitimately from the ground up. It makes me sad that some of these pyramid WAHM schemes really do attract naive women.
3) The “Bait and Switchers”- When I follow people I always make sure they are not a part of anything pornographic or just lewd, period. Imagine my surprise when several people on my list now have obscene pictures in their profiles and point me to nasty websites. The classic bait and switch. Goodbye!
4) The Freebie Fanatics– His/her tweets always scream “get something free at my website”, so you go to their website and it’s slap full of affiliate samples, meaning…sure, you might get a freebie, but they also get a nice little sum from you clicking on the link. Someone is laughing all the way to the bank. There is a right and a wrong way to do a deal/freebie blog and there are some women who do it very well and authentically, not just for a click, but because they truly are passionate about helping others save money.
5) Weird people– This includes anyone trying to get me to buy their new acacia berry drink because they swear it will take 20 years off my face and just, well….weird people. I don’t care about your deeeep philosophies on life and your angst over the latest gaming system. I hear enough gaming system angst from my husband and son.
And the list of annoying “Twits” goes on and on….
I will say that this colorful cast of Twitter characters on my list really is all my fault. I had no idea there were so many people using Twitter and thought I was supposed to be nice and add people because they added me because we’re all just one big part of this whole blogosphere and we all need to band together. (OK, seriously, you can stop laughing now) However, the more I go to looking for tweets from actual people I like hearing from and the fact that almost every tweet I came across was nothing but spam, something had to give.
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i just decided not to go the twitter route. blogs and fb are enough for me.
I purged my list about a month ago- and now I actually CHECK my twitter account. I wasn't before because it was full of junk. Now, I just see stuff I want to read!!
I mentioned to Andrew that the way to find out what they're really like is check their tweets at night. With the time zone difference I tend to get people late at night and that can be eye-opening. If their dirty that's when it really comes out. Unfollow.
Wow, that is quite a project. I Need to work on that, but have been doing my e-mail purge of years gone by. Good luck and thanks for reminding me to do it myself.
Good for you, Mandy! Awhile back, I did this, too, and whittled my list down to 2 or 300. I need to do it again. I haven't been on Twitter lately, while getting re-adjusted to my new life in the north. I love reading your posts, even if I don't comment much!
Take care!!
Goodness. What a bunch of loonies there are out there! It must be giving you great pleasure to delete them!