Decided today to start culling my Twitter follow list. I seem to be following a lot of people that never say anything. On closer inspection many of them stopped tweeting a long time ago. Some had not tweeted since 2008 or 2009. So it was time to cut out the dead wood and bury some old birds.
Unfortunately, this does not seem to be an easy task in Twitter. I was hoping for an option to bulk delete anyone that had not tweeted for X days / month. But the only option is to look at each profile page and then click unfollow. A long and boring process.
Many Spammy Accounts Abandoned
One interesting discovered was that amongst all the good stuff I follow there are many spammy accounts that started out providing good information, and then at some point just tweeted affiliate links and other rubbish, then gave up altogether. I was thinking, is this in itself proof that spamming Twitter does not work? If it did work then I assume that these people would still be tweeting.
Also, many of the sites still going strong are real communities, such as university departments, sports clubs, fitness clubs and other health and fitness professionals. They are providing a good service of tweets, although I admit that I still struggle to really read many of them. Twitter just seems to be too noisy.
Now thinking that maybe I should cut back more, maybe limit myself to 50 high quality Tweeters and leave it at that? Still got about 500 more to cull though.
