Twitter Purge

posted by jangro on (2 years, 5 months ago)

I just went through a massive twitter purge. I do this every once in a while, usually after realizing (for the umpteenth time) that auto-follow is a bad idea.

I'll say it again. Autofollow is a bad idea.

Wait...

There, maybe I'll remember that for next time.

I used Tweepi to go through my whole list and manually unfollowed anyone who I don't know or at least know of and find interesting. Particular targets were those who had "success", "money", "guru", or "mlm" in their twitter name, or were clearly a douchebag. I did not to take it personally and act on those who I'm following but don't follow me back. (Though several are duly noted.) No double standards here.

I will admit that I got a little bleary-eyed and trigger-happy toward the end. A bad combo.

If you survived and I'm following you as of right now, congrats. I like you. Yay you!

If you got unfollowed and you actually noticed, it was surely a mistake on my part. Do let me know.


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  • jangro saved this to Twitter 2 years, 5 months ago
  • Posted by TriciaMeyer 2 years, 5 months ago

    Whew! It's nice to be liked. :)

  • Posted by Dane Morgan 2 years, 5 months ago

    Autofollow isn't a bad idea, it's a horrible idea. I'm luckier than you, I only went through the purge once and have never autofollowed again since. I had to change my password because i couldn't even remember the autofollowers I had used and they just kept plugging away.

    I actually like reading my timeline again these days!

  • Posted by thedavidlewis 2 years, 5 months ago

    Phew... I made the cut!

    BTW, you didn't unfollow all of the douchebags so I think you need to change the term you are using... or never read your own tweets:

    http://twitter.com/toddcrawford/douchebags" rel="nofollow">
    http://twitter.com/toddcrawford/douchebags

  • jangro

    Posted by jangro 2 years, 5 months ago

    Well it seems that there was ONE douchebag that I neglected to unfollow. coughthedavidlewis*

    I did see when Todd created that list that the minute he got access to lists.
    Clearly, he's using the endearing definition of douchebag. It's like fat and phat, just spelled the same in this case.

  • jangro

    Posted by jangro 2 years, 5 months ago

    Yeah, I had my reasons for turning on auto-follow at the the time (times, actually), though I'm hard pressed to remember what those reasons were.

  • jangro

    Posted by jangro 2 years, 5 months ago

    Yay you! ;)

  • Posted by thedavidlewis 2 years, 5 months ago

    I think you're following everyone on Todd's list.

    So you're saying that's like "jangro" and "agro"?

    OH: "He was going all jangro on that panel."

  • jangro

    Posted by jangro 2 years, 5 months ago

    I don't think I'm saying that. But maybe.

    And you can add that usage of "jangro" to the ever growing list of definitions of "jangro." You've coined two now.

  • Posted by thedavidlewis 2 years, 5 months ago

    Chalk it up to name-envy.

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  • Posted by Ferhat 2 years, 5 months ago

    ?t's very nice

  • Posted by enhancedkrealkalyn 2 years, 5 months ago

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    http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/enhanced-krealkalyn-review-does-enhanced-krealkalyn-free-trial-work-1550234.html" rel="nofollow">
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  • Posted by Mike Frankel 2 years, 5 months ago

    I hope I made the cut! @MikeFrankel

  • jangro

    Posted by jangro 2 years, 5 months ago

    You didn't.

    I just followed you. Don't blow it.

  • Posted by kazemm 2 years, 5 months ago

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  • Posted by escortbayan 2 years, 5 months ago

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  • Posted by leblebi20 2 years, 4 months ago

    thank u

  • Posted by Qwertyweb 2 years, 4 months ago

    even i had used it and had increased many many followers but i immedietly choosed not to so as if i can be marked as a spam :P

  • Posted by Qwertyweb 2 years, 4 months ago

    even i had used it and had increased many many followers but i immedietly choosed not to so as if i can be marked as a spam :P

  • Posted by dreiden 2 years, 3 months ago

    Personally I sort of gave up on Twitter for a personal account. I can see the benefit for commercial use but at the end of the day, I really don't care what all my friends are doing all the time, and even a lot of the news source and vendors I follow just seem to bombard me with information that is mostly irrelevant.. do I really care that that they are serving stale bagels in teh cafeteria at Marvel?!? Does anyone?!?!

  • Posted by vurucu 2 years, 1 month ago

    tanks

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  • Posted by bigkeb 1 year, 11 months ago

    Thanks for reminding me, I haven't cleaned my list for a while. I guess it's time to do a little spring cleaning.

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