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		<title>Twitter &#8220;auto followers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the nature of Twitter, I don&#8217;t understand those who just automatically follow everyone who shows up on the Twitter home page. I just blocked about 5 &#8220;followers&#8221; who were each following a couple of thousand people. Some were following as many as 80k people! Clearly they&#8217;re not actually &#8220;following&#8221; any of them, just automatically [...]]]></description>
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<p>Given the nature of Twitter, I don&#8217;t understand those who just automatically follow everyone who shows up on the Twitter home page. I just blocked about 5 &#8220;followers&#8221; who were each following a couple of thousand people. Some were following as many as 80k people! Clearly they&#8217;re not actually &#8220;following&#8221; any of them, just automatically adding everyone who posts, hoping to GET as many followers as possible. &#8220;TwitterMosaic&#8221;? If I wanted to see everything posted by everyone on twitter, I&#8217;d just look at the twitter home page, not follow a specific user, who just reposts everything everyone says.<br />
Then there was the guy who&#8217;s every tweet was &#8220;Let me help you make your life better! Read my web site! makemoneyfast.com&#8221; and variations thereof. Yeah, I need twitter spam about as much as I need email spam.<br />
On the other hand, having finally gotten up and started my e-day, one of the first emails I read told me a lovely red-head and good friend had started following me on Twitter. <img src='http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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