10 Signs That Say “Don’t Follow!” on Twitter
I’m not the “You follow me, I follow you” type of Twitterer, no one should be! However, I do look at every follower’s profile, I don’t follow everyone because I have to keep up the engagement, although there are lists these days, why would I want my home feed to have 100s of new tweets every time it refreshes? Unless they are extremely interesting/ useful (such as @jesus, @mashable), I like to follow the ones who I can engage with.
1. No avatar
This is obvious.
2. No Bio
Bio on Twitter is very important to me. I like to have an idea of who I’m connecting with. I would quickly move on if there’s no bio.
3. Many followings, not enough followers
That shows something about this person. He/ She is either following people with bots or actually not interesting enough for people to follow.
4. Vice versa 
When someone has like 10,000 followers but only following 10, unless they are very interesting people who I actually want to follow on what they do, I usually ignore those ones.
5. No @reply on feed
If there’s no @ signs on the feed, it means he/ she has no interest in engaging.
6. Make money online
Come on! This one has been ridiculous, I seriously don’t know how some of them have followers.
7. Hot girls
No offense to some of my beautiful followers! What I mean here are the ones with fake girls images that promote for sex cam or porn sites.
8. Gamblers
These are the same as “Make money online” and “hot girls”. They are affiliates, the pay out of online casinos are actually quite high, so these are inexperienced affiliates trying to make money the wrong way.
9. “From API” and “From Twitterfeed”
Actually some of the “From API” ones are not automated, they could be using Twitter Clients that doesn’t show specific names like “From Seesmic”, but many of them are auto-generated tweets. Tweets “from twitterfeed” are just generated by aggregators, I usually ignore them unless they are extremely interesting.
10. A group/ an irrelevant start-up site
Many of these groups/ start up sites are just looking for people to follow back, then many of them unfollow you after. I never follow them back if they are not relevant to my interest.
