I realized this morning that I had made a mistake. I had started following people on Twitter just because they were ‘BIG’ on Twitter.
I guess I thought any mom with thousands of followers had to be really interesting and worth a follow – but I was wrong.
It’s not that they weren’t interesting – they are. But their Twitter activity isn’t relevant to MY interests and so it becomes so much noise to weed through that it drowns out the chatter that is most valuable to me.
So this morning I took a few minutes to selectively reduce my Twitter follow list. I removed 90% of the people who haven’t followed me back to start. Then I removed those who haven’t taken the time to add an avatar or picture to their Twitter account. Lastly, I unfollowed everyone who I just haven’t felt a good connection with.
This isn’t the first time I cleaned house on my Twitter account. Earlier this summer I did a similar sweep, targeting some ‘experts’ who I had followed hoping to learn something from but only ended up being spammed by.
I see good fruit by keeping my follow list aired out. I love Twitter and I want to interact with those I share interests with and by making an effort to clear away the noise, I can better enjoy what is left.
How about you? When is the last time you evaluated your Twitter peeps?