As a matter of fact, even though numbers on both lists on my profile sort of balance at times, a lot of the people that I follow don’t follow me, and I don’t follow all of those who follow me!

I follow people if I think that they have something interesting to say. If they follow me in turn, that’s nice, if they don’t, that’s fine too!

I use Topify to check people who follow me – if they interact, and don’t look as though they are spammers, I add them!

So, in a rambling, disjointed sort of an answer, I guess that I am saying who cares about the ratio? Follow people who you like, and can relate to!

Have a great week!

I don’t know where new followers have been coming from lately, but I can’t help but think some of them are coming from those get 400 + followers a day lists, based on who I see is following these peeps back. Booo hisss.

Some new followers are legit Twitter users but I’m not interested in their main topic focus or reason for being on Twitter. Sometimes I find the business they’re promoting doesn’t interest me in the least, while others are non-stop one-way tweets with very little @ interaction with followers, except maybe through DM.

In your opinion, should I be at all concerned about equaling out the following/followee numbers as much as possible even if I’m not interested? Should I consider blocking some of them, even though they’re legit users, in order to keep my Twitter ratio balanced? Some of the newer followers have thousands upon thousands of followers – something I couldn’t care less about. I just want people who will actually engage with me, help promote my posts with RT’s etc, just like everyone else wants done for them.

Signed, perplexed and somewhat frustrated.

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I agree that when people do nothing but share links it all wears a bit thin.

Have a great week mate!

Allan

Yet I also block users who ONLY post advertising, marketing and repetitive posts. Thanks for reminding me what the ‘Soc’ in ‘SocNet’ really is all about.