Six months ago, I asked: At Twitter, do you need to be a follower to be followed?”
I asked that question because of the increasing belief (obviously perpetrated by marketers and developers of Twitter-related products) that a Twitter-er needs to follow to be followed.
With a very small Twitter account, @pinoyjokesnet, we started an experiment. What we did was to occasionally (yes, occasionally, not regularly) send updates to @pinoyjokesnet. Although there was always that temptation, we did not follow other Twitter-ers. The @pinoyjokesnet did not even follow my own Twitter account @romycc.
Today, we revisited the question: “At Twitter, do you need to be a follower to be followed?” Based on @pinoyjokesnet stats, the answer is in the negative. At at today, @pinoyjokesnet has 225 followers and is not following any Twitter-er.
That said, does it mean that @pinoyjokesnet will not follow other Twitter-ers? Difficult to say. But if the purpose of signing up for a Twitter account is to “socialize”, then following no one defeats that purpose.
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