Twitter Spam

May of you may have noticed that over the past couple of days i have been un-following everyone on twitter, i am very sorry if i un-followed you but i’m sure after reading this this you will know why.

My main reason to un-follow everyone is because the amount of tweets that appear in my timeline, most of which are commercial spam. If you are like me, and you would like to interact with the community more, you will shortly realise that following 1,500 people on twitter is a bad thing and causes some big problems, and i am wanting to use twitter in the way that it was built to be used.

Before my decision to un-follow everybody i firstly stopped auto-following people back, as this is the main reason i end up following spammers. Chris Pirillo had also done the same as me a month before, and at the time i and everyone else thought he was stupid, but now i have come to see that is it not so ridiculous as it sounds.

When i ran the script to un-follow people, i instantly realised that my followers was dropping at a rapid decline. This means that most of the people that follow me are also using the auto-follow and un-follow features, and to any of you that are doing the same thing i would advise you not too, as this would get you in a mess with a busy timeline.

As i said earlier, i apologise if i un-followed you and i will be following most of the people again.

I just hope that many of you out there will follow mine and a few others paths, and start to un-follow spammers and overall make twitter a better place.