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<\/center>The time’s here to be a proud \u201cforever alone\u201d<\/strong> and face the truth about: \u201c who unfollowed me on Twitter \u201d<\/strong> so we can clean up<\/strong> our timeline.<\/p>\nYes ladies and gentlemen, nowadays being a \u201cloner\u201d and a wicked \u201cunfollower\u201d on this platform is key for those who want their timeline to be a better place on \u201cTwitterland\u201d<\/strong>. \ud83d\ude42 In today’s article, we will see:<\/p>\n I believe there are still people<\/strong> who think being a serial follower is smart<\/strong> and they’re so obsessed with numbers that if they lose a follower this happens:<\/strong><\/p>\n This practice of mass following is supported by the belief that the people who we follow will follow us back,<\/strong> which is partly true\u00a0but only at a 30% approximately. If you are on Twitter you’ve probably seen this. Many apps were made specifically to offer \u201cmass follow\u201d services since it’s one of the easiest and simplest ways to look as if you have a\u00a0\u201csuccessful\u201d \u00a0profile<\/strong> but things have changed and being a \u201cserial follower\u201d isn’t only in but also it’s not smart since it leads us nowhere (good)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The seemingly \u201cwinning\u201d attitude of a serial is as phony as this:<\/p>\n Today people seek good content<\/strong>, and for that, it’s necessary to have a timeline where you can find that easily, instead of having to go over an endless scroll until you find what interests you.<\/strong><\/p>\n Michael Hyatt<\/a> or Chris Brogan<\/a> are two examples of really successful people within the social media world that decided many years ago to start the habit of cleaning Twitter and promoting quality over quantity.<\/strong> Hyatt did a \u201cmass unfollow\u201d and cleared his account eliminating over 105K people<\/strong> and his results were excellent: he was able to make out of Twitter a real social environment in which he has real and quality interactions with the people he has kept.<\/strong><\/p>\n There’s a saying that goes: \u201cless is more\u201d<\/strong> which I think adjusts perfectly to Twitter’s new spirit. I relate to the fear of many people that clearing their accounts would mean to end up like<\/strong> Milhouse \ud83d\ude42 …<\/p>\n Twitter is as simple as that, and since the new habit \u201cquality > quantity \u201d has been encouraged Twitter’s \u201cfollower\u2019s ratio\u201d became an<\/strong> important indicator of real \u201csuccess\u201d<\/strong> in this platform. Basically it lets us know what type of user you are:<\/strong><\/p>\n In order to calculate the ratio<\/strong> you only need to divide the number of people following you \u201cF\u201d by the number of people, you follow \u201cf\u201d.<\/p>\n If the result is more than 1<\/strong> you have a quite optimized profile<\/strong>, you are popular and interesting. Your timeline is clean and you are not exposed to Tweet pollution.<\/p>\n I’ll share with you some examples that will help you forget about being shy<\/strong> or insecure to start deleting from once and for all:<\/p>\n Besides ruining your ratio<\/strong> which will lead many people to decide against following you, there are other reasons that will impact you and your account directly in a negative way unless you decide to revert your behavior:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why is that question necessary?\u00a0The answers to these questions benefit us in two ways:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1-<\/strong> <\/em>They work as a kickoff to investigate who we’ll remove from our timeline, who’s worth keeping and who isn’t, such as:<\/p>\n In order to organize this process better, we suggest the following: first make a list on Twitter<\/strong> where you include the people you do want to keep so you won’t lose anyone important in the clean up.<\/strong> You can do so following these<\/a> instructions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2-<\/strong> <\/em>Knowing who has stopped following us or who never did makes us formulate or reformulate,<\/strong>\u00a0our account is clean, a social media strategy that’s effective so you can attract the right people and reinforce engagement with those you do want to have on your Twitter.<\/strong><\/p>\n With a small community and having your audience defined we can identify more easily what people haven’t followed us, analyze who they do follow, what content they share, what are their interests, what the competition does to keep those followers and then we can design a plan to optimize our presence on this social network and make the most of it.<\/p>\n Even if you only use the platform to get information, a clean up, will let you get to that relevant tweet<\/strong>, you know, the one that’s useful and contributes to something good to our timeline.<\/p>\n It is good to remember then that part of this process isn’t only eliminating people but also knowing who to follow.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n To do that you can use these tools,<\/strong> that will help with choose more wisely who should be part of your community, via suggestions of profiles by relevance, popularity, authority and influence within your niche of interest:<\/p>\n Well, now that you already know the theory and understand why you need to clear your account<\/strong> here’s a list of tools so you can do your clean up as simple, easy and free as possible.<\/p>\n One of the most complete and popular ones is the previously mentioned: Crowdfire<\/a>. It has a complete board that allows you to monitor your profile and the activity of your followers in a simple way.<\/strong><\/p>\n The free version is quite basic but the paid options are much more complete. And, you can administer and check several accounts!<\/p>\n Twitter reality has changed. Quantity is no longer important,<\/strong> except if you are a rock star. But in our cases, very different to that one, it’s necessary to do an honest clean up of both: <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nIt’s very common, in the desperate race for a shocking community on Twitter<\/strong>, to become serial followers…<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"excuseme\"](\"http:\/\/postcron.com\/es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/excuseme.jpg\")
<\/center>Yes… you know what I mean.<\/strong> Many of us have indiscriminately \u201cfollow-followback\u201d<\/strong> without taking consequences into consideration. But, for a while, now many celebrities and renown social media experts<\/strong>, have stopped both following back and encouraging that trend<\/strong><\/em> which consists of \u201cfollowing everybody and following back\u201d because it turns the timeline into an unproductive, less happy and not so useful place.<\/p>\n\n
Sinners of the follow\/ follow back<\/h2>\n
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<\/center>Now, as a rookie on Twitter you can verify the power of this platform to quickly \u201cbuild\u201d a community<\/strong> just by following, following, following<\/strong> people indiscriminately, even when we don’t even know how to pronounce their names.<\/p>\n![\"yesnojimcarrey\"](\"http:\/\/postcron.com\/es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/yesnojimcarrey.gif\")
<\/center>Let’s see, for maaany years now Twitter not news and it’s become a true source of information and news<\/strong>. People no longer use or log into the platform just to play who’s more \u201csuccessful\u201d, who gets to 10K followers first.<\/em><\/p>\nWhat type of user are you? – Twitter\u00b4s Golden Ratio<\/h2>\n
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<\/center>However, I think you shouldn’t be afraid of that because the goal isn’t to be like or unlike Milhouse or to have 10 people on the other side of the \u201cseesaw\u201d<\/strong> since we wouldn’t be able to use it effectively and enjoy the game.<\/p>\n![\"dontcare\"](\"http:\/\/postcron.com\/es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dontcare.gif\")
<\/center>Actually, I do hope you are interested in the ratio because it’s a \u201cquality\u201d indicator<\/strong> of the type of user you are and your popularity, but also because from another perspective it can indicate to how much \u201cnoise\u201d versus valuable content you are exposed to.<\/p>\n\n
F\/f = ratio<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe negative consequences of being a serial follower.<\/h2>\n
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Who stopped following me and who isn’t following me on Twitter?<\/h2>\n
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Who unfollowed me on Twitter:\u00a0How do I quickly clean up my Twitter account?<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nConclusi\u00f3n<\/strong><\/h3>\n