Twitter & Why We Won't Follow You

twitter-default-greenTwitter is all the rage, everyone is doing it, if you're not why aren't you? From big companies to people living in their basement are inviting you into their lives, their culture and meeting new people that share like interests is what Twitter is about. The down side of Twitter though are some of the people that do follow you.

We've put together a list of reasons we just will never consider following you back:

• You have not, will not or don't know how to change the default avatar (We'll also unfollow these default style avatars that follow us — takes two seconds to change it out people)

• You have no opinion whatsoever or have nothing interesting to say

• Have all the answers

• You don't have bio, nor do you plan to put one up

• You don't ever respond to DMs or @replies

• You retweet without a RT or a via

• Your tweets are locked down and are so private and important they require a permission request to be worthy of your tweets

• You are an IT guy from India

• If your names starts with a J (or any letter for that matter) and you throw an "i" in front of it so it's cutesy like iJustine's name

• If you have over 75 tweets a day (come-on no one has that many interesting things to talk about. Imagine if you received an email or phone call from the same person every 5 min for 8 hours straight — you get the point, I've seen some people with close to 200 tweets a day, purely insane, no one can keep up with that or would want to read that much from one person)

• You just started Twitter two days ago, have one tweet and 3000+ followers

• You have 5 followers, no tweets and are following 10,000 people

• You post once a month

• You can get me rich working at home only 1 hour a month

• You are the same person following us under 5 different Twitter accounts

• You are selling Acai

• You are a life coach

• You are a business coach

• You can tell me how to live a more fulfilling life

• You have used Gary Mccaffrey or think his system will work

• You can get me 100 followers a day if I follow one simple step

• You are a fake off-the-charts beautiful model (real models are fine @giseleofficial are you listening?)

• You look like a felon

• You look like your photo has been over-Photoshopped so you look amazing

• You are still using the Shepard Fairey Obama red, blue, beige campaign look in your photo

• You are using your professional head shot when you were a background extra on Save By The Bell.

• You are wearing a tux in your photo

• You look like a stripper

• You look like an adult film star

• You look like you aren't old enough to follow anyone except your friends to the cafeteria in Junior High

• You use your kids photo for your avatar

• You use Miley Cyrus as your avatar

• You look like you are getting ready for ladies night out

• You look like you have too much street cred'

• You are female (especially male) with no shirt on in your picture

• You are working out in your photo

• You use a photo from circa 1983 (this isn't match.com)

• You look like you're wasted or high in your picture

• You are vogueing too much in their photo

• You try to squeeze your entire family into your photo

• You think smooching your significant other makes a great photo

• You have a really really bad toupee in your photo

• You have a Hitler mustache in your photo

• You use an iStock photo pretending to be that person in your photo

• You are an animal or a person posing as an animal in your photo

• You are a fake celebrity trying to be witty (Fake Tiny Fey I'm onto you)

• You are a CEO or have the word CEO in their avatar

• You have money or a money sign as part of your avatar

• You are making out with your significant other or flavor of the week in your avatar

• Miami Vice was your favorite TV show and you still dress like that in your avatar

• You are a headhunter

• You have changed your avatar to a green tint or added the Live Strong band to it because you want to be cool NOT for the actual cause itself

• You are a staffing company

• You have the word "killa" in your name

• You have the F-bomb in your name

• You have "EZ" in your name

• Your picture is hard to tell if you're a man or woman

• You speak a different language (nothing wrong with it) pero no comprendo sus tweets

• You say you're MySpace Mike the founder & CEO of MySpace that auto follows you (I'm not on MySpace — just sayin')

Listen, we don't ask for much on Twitter, just don't be pushy, fake or inconsiderate (isn't that what we all want in general out of life?) Contribute to the conversation, say something funny once in awhile, provide a great photo or link to something interesting, live life and let people live through your experiences. Twitter can be a mystery sometimes in why it even exists but doesn't have to be.

So twitterers take note, if you want to follow us at http://www.twitter.com/robertpfeifer, make sure you do not fit the descriptions above and we'll follow you back especially if you are a great client or in the design business.

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