How Important is Your Following Count on Twitter?

Is the question for all, many wish more followers for several different reasons. If you are Pete Cashmore, Google, or a Britney Spears you will have no trouble getting followers. But if you are like most 40 some-odd million on twitter, there is a cap on who you can follow, which is your following #.

A good tip if you have not already done so, is click through all that you are following to see the last time the person you are following gave some kind of content to you and others. Cleaning up the useless twitts, that has not contributed for anything should be unfollowed. Twitter is like playing BlackJack, sticking to the rules, setting your limits to either 1, 2, or 3 mo. cut off, with maybe a few exceptions such as getting an Ace, you take out insurance, or getting two 8′s you double-down, I choose leaving all painting contractors across the country on my list not having contributed to a tweet for 6 mos., as this is my choice, and you can have yours. Although if they have not tweeted at all, just getting an account, they are off my following list sooner than they think.

I have a problem with folks claiming they are making tons of cash blogging, with no website listed on their twitter account, and or having sent very few tweets. Must not be using twitter uh? Same goes for folks who are SEO specialists that can get your page at the top of search engines, having very few activities on twitter. Another one that floors me are those who claim to have the answer for 1000′s of followers, but have only say 50, and not tweeted in 4-5 months.

All this garbage uses up my space of followings, putting someone else that can give current useful information. Not a very big person on twitter, having only around 3300 that I was following, reducing that amount tonight to the 2800 mark, cleaning up my account, as I take pride hearing what many have to say across the world.

Pretty safe to say, those reading this are active on twitter, and those inactive would never read my tweet to begin with @PaintingDenver

Great apps helping in this regard tweetspinner & Follower Wonk

Below are some bad examples to follow that I deleted, some quite humorous:

tonyarice87
tonya rice

No tweets, Stopped following

bbcone327
Jane | UK seriously! if your from UK you have to see BBCs Radio 1. tix are sold out but you can win em! http://tinyurl.com/bbcradio1 5 months ago

Tickets once a year? A Tweet once a year………..?

studioQ
m. norhisam manaf | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia hi everyone… just finish my breakfast…. 8:21 PM Jul 14th

When are you eating lunch?

Lu_Ryan
Lu Ryan Ryan will be answering all of your questions about anxiety and inner core transformation *LIVE* all day today here: http://bit.ly/CheYi 9:18 AM Jul 28th

**My anxiety is waiting for your next Livetweet.**

BuyBroquetToday
Broquet Online Store | USA

Be followed by every man and his dog using the new @ViralURL system: http://ViralFollowers.com/BuyBroquetToday/vu 7:36 AM May 24th

Name Broquet Online Store
Location USA
Web http://BroquetFue…
Bio Broquet Fuel Charger – The Original Broquet Fuel Catalyst from U.K.

33 Following

52 Followers

0 Listed

Humm.

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