Blog Talk: Why follow for follow is useless
One thing that I haven't gotten too caught up in around the blogesphere (luckily) is the "follow for follow" schtick. Anyone who has tried to promote anything has heard of it -- writers, reviewers, bloggers, etc. -- "If you follow my blog/author site and all of my social media, then I'll follow back." The problem is that it doesn't get you very far. Usually. I can't speak for everyone's experience. 1. many will end up unfollowing in a week or month 2. you're lost in the crowd Following people: I just purged my Twitter and I'm feeling great about it. While I didn't do the follow for a follow routine, I just naturally accumulated a bunch of twitter accounts. Hitting on 800 (which is no where near what some people have), I noticed that maybe 25% of those I was following were showing up in my feed. Others were buried, not tweeting, or tweeting spam. This goes for any social media site. Of course, there are those annoying Twitter...