10 indicators that you followed the wrong Tweep!

I am sure you consider carefully before you follow or follow-back someone on Twitter. You use the #FF list of someone you trust; or take a look at someone wise enough to RT one of your great tweets or blog posts. You look at the profile and last few tweets or posts of anyone who newly followed you. Yet occasionally a tweet or DM from the newly-followed indicates that you may have erred…

Below are 10 quick indications that I erred - big time.

Number one is the DM or FB message we all cherish:

Join me on Candy Crush... or Hey, I just added you to my Mafia family. You should accept my invitation! Click here: http://t.co/thedon

What can I say? I would like to urge him to go back in time and help tie up the world’s internet during the afternoon playing Farmville, but a quick unfollow is best.

The remaining indicators are in reverse order, ala David Letterman:

9. Make some money tweeting, sign up to for Sponsored Tweets! http://bit.ly/spamu

Bet I’m going to really enjoy reading your tweets! Now that I use a DVR I sort of miss commercials... Let’s sing the SPAM song! SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM...

8. BBW lovers join me on my webcam. I can travel to help you relax on business trips. http://warmup.com

Even if the #FF list is from a trusted Twitter friend, you should still check out the profiles before following. You don’t know everything about your Twitter follower or what he does 500 miles from home…

7. Home Teeth Whitening – What is the Best Teeth Whitener?: http://bit.ly/whiteisright

Everyone on Twitter should have gleaming teeth by now! Similarly we should all be rich and always ready and well-equipped for love.

6. Get followers fast! Today’s giveaway: 5,000 followers!

I bet that they are a fascinating group of tweeters! In The Tao of Twitter, Mark Schaefer discusses advising a friend to close a twitter account after he had “enhanced” it with one of these services.

5. Gothic, vampire or punk friends in your area? Our site 100% free http://bit.ly/biteme

She was all dressed in black in her profile picture…

4. NewlyFollowed11 uses TrueTwit validation service. To validate click here: http://truetwit.com/pzzl

Even though the leading influence measuring firm claims that there are good bots and bad bots, I empathize with the urge to connect with real people. However, take the time some day to actually play the truetwit letter game. After you decipher the code their pitch to join is NOT primarily to avoid BOTs, but instead to avoid their own service!

Truetwit is a service similar to the window-washing service that used to be offered at the tunnels exiting Manhattan: A guy would throw mud on your windshield and then would offer to clean it off for a couple bucks. TrueTwit offers to throw no more mud on your windshield if you direct them to some of your new friends. Some friend!

3. The ***** Network is about to change the face of network marketing http://bit.ly/sucker

The internet is full of questionable quasi-pyramid schemes. Our’s has a celebrity brand name! What celebrity would be suitable? A businessman who has taken more money from banks through serial bankruptcies than Willie Sutton could have ever dreamed about?

Finally #2! The tweet that ranks only behind “Candy Crush or my Mafia family”:

2. @wisetweeter1 , @wisetweeter2 , @wisetweeter3 and 7 others unfollowed me today … checked by http://whnrs.com

Ten people took the effort to unfollow this dude today? Maybe they had good reason… Is it because of his whining? Some other recent tweets of his:

  • Only one person RT-ed me last week!
  • My mother doesn’t really love me as much as she loves my sister.
  • @Beyonce @realJonasBrothers and @JustinBieber have not followed me back!

These are my 10! Yet TEN indicators seems a little pat... Do you have a suggestion of one or two more I missed? Please comment!

Jennifer Cole

Social Media Manager @ Greteman Group | Podcaster

9y

LOVE the first item.... #ohHiBecky....another great article! thanks for sharing!

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