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RE: Golden Question - why "Unfollow"
But that's the thing, if you have 1000 followers and they post even once-in-a-while, then you could have a lot of stuff on your home page where maybe you only want to see stuff from maybe 50 or so people. I don't have an answer to why they would follow you, then unfollow. I'm just saying that is why some people may only follow a small number of people compared to how many follow them.
yes, I see you point and I figure that is probably the why to the question of "why unfollow?". In the bigger picture, why keep a thousand followers who's upvote is worth $0.000 when you can keep a much smaller group with higher rankings whose upvote is worth something!?!
usually what has happened with me is that I follow someone, they follow me back and then a week or so later unfollow me. I look and yes they follow a very, very small group.
So why bother to follow back in the first place if your long term strategy is to maintain only a small group of high ranking followers? Some day perhaps I will see the light and find out the answer. :)
In the meantime I still like to follow those as a way of saying thanks to those who follow me
On Twitter at least, this is done on purpose. I've been over there awhile and got a chance to see how things really work. Ever see those accounts with 100,000 followers and only following like 12 people? they use software to follow people like you who follow everyone back. then after a week (when you've forgotten about them) they quietly unfollow you. Making it look like they are this very popular account.
So I started watching these "three day unfollowers" and unfollowed them. Guess what happened? They followed me back! lol Turns out they (or their software) doesn't like being unfollowed either!
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thanks @evernoticethat. :) good info and a different slant on the same view with Twitter.