mama2cntrykids Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I signed up for a Twitter account a few days ago, and I am finding it annoying. I have people following me that I don't even know. Is this typical? How are these strangers finding me? I am thinking that I will stay with fb, but was curious to know why strangers want to follow me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I am, and ya, you get a lot of social media scam people - I use mine as a news feed though and don't pay any attention to the "followers/following" clean out thing. It's ridiculous and time consuming to clean it up. You can set your profile to private to lessen the impact there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zillymom Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I just joined truetwit.com which is supposed to filter out automated follows. It asks users to solve a captcha in order to follow you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne in CA Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 There is something weird about how they decide who is following you. My dh has a lot of followers that he does not know, I don't think they are REALLY following him, it is just something about their program. My ds just started Twitter and the only followers he has are people he really knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama2cntrykids Posted January 7, 2013 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 A friendly bump for other prespective. Someone else that I don't know is now following me. He appears to be from the middle east and has no tweets. Not that it matters, but I don't know anyone from anywhere NEAR the middle east lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 it's common to have people you don't know follow you. Twitter will suggest people to follow when you follow someone new, people with the same "themes" or who follow people you follow. There are also people who are just trying to build their twitter numbers- it is usually etiquette to follow someone who has followed you, so these people are hoping many people will mindlessly follow them. You can block someone if they make you nervous, I have done that a few times. I try to check out who follows me and only follow back if it looks like we have something in common, though I do have a few etiquette follows, too. Twitter can be fun, the more people you are following, the more active your feed will be and the more info you will pick up. I like it for finding giveaways and for finding out news quick. I'm @ hen jen ca (no spaces) if you want to follow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama2cntrykids Posted January 7, 2013 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 it's common to have people you don't know follow you. Twitter will suggest people to follow when you follow someone new, people with the same "themes" or who follow people you follow. There are also people who are just trying to build their twitter numbers- it is usually etiquette to follow someone who has followed you, so these people are hoping many people will mindlessly follow them. You can block someone if they make you nervous, I have done that a few times. I try to check out who follows me and only follow back if it looks like we have something in common, though I do have a few etiquette follows, too. Twitter can be fun, the more people you are following, the more active your feed will be and the more info you will pick up. I like it for finding giveaways and for finding out news quick. I'm @ hen jen ca (no spaces) if you want to follow. Thanks for the insight, Jen. I followed you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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