Qwitter – To Qwit or Not To Qwit?

I don’t personally use Qwitter. I’m not really concerned if people stop following me. I ‘m more concerned with building relationships with people that ARE following me. Besides .. it would probably make me neurotic!

I personally take advantage of the benefits that Qwitter provides.

The last post they received isn’t all too relevant at times, but it certainly does provide a benchmark of – if we’re both of mutual understanding that we shouldn’t follow eachothers tweets, then I can clean up the list of whom I happen to be following.

These are some of the limitations you reach as you approach the first ~2000 follow limit.

That said, it can help you narrow down your communication community to ensure that you’re more inline with the type of message you’re delivering and the audience you are delivering it to.

When you think about it, you’re notified when someone follows you, but not when they unfollow you? That seems a bit contrary!

I wouldn’t exactly change my behavior or modify my tweets because my medium expresses my personality and business acumen – Not all followers are looking for that.

Thanks for the question Jack!

I do use Qwitter; however, I use it to know who unfollowed me and if I had also been following them, I then promptly UNfollow them.

Quite often I find that I was not following them – so perhaps that’s why they qwitt. Who knows. I figure if they did not like how I tweet, then chances are we have little in common – thus why I UNfollow after I receive Qwitter notices.

So for me, it’s a tool to keep my following list cleaned out; not for me to adjust how I tweet.

I’m not a Qwitter. I really don’t want to know.

I don’t use Qwitter pretty much for the same reason you don’t. If they don’t like me the way I am, then don’t follow me. I’m not going to change my personality to cater to a few certain individuals who are qwitters. A tweet that makes one person qwit following you could be a tweet that makes 10 people follow you.

I do use Qwitter. I’m an information junkie, so I want to know what’s going on all the time. I often wonder why someone has followed me, when we seem to have almost nothing in common and I’m equally baffled when they unfollow me.

I have to admit, it did bother me when someone famous stopped following me. Oh no! Was it something I said? Aren’t I smart enough? Cool enough? Hey …. wait! I’ve been snubbed by bigger men that you bucko!!!

Okay, I feel better now ..

Stopped using Qwitter when it kept telling me people dropped after a tweet I sent about 2 months ago. It kept citing that 1 tweet for every qwitter it detected.

http://twitter.com/technopodge

I don’t use Qwitter and after reading your post, I probably still won’t. If someone doesn’t find value in the content and subjects that I’m talking about, then they can choose to no longer follow me. I like to think of Twitter as a way to show people my personality. Not only am I sharing content that I like or am interested in learning more about, but I’m trying to connect with new people. While making new connections is always great, I don’t really care to know that someone decided to no longer follow me.

I liked the concept of knowing who unfollowed me, but found receiving the odd notification from Qwitter of who and when it happened was a negative experience for me. It somehow decreased the positive atmosphere of tweeting, and what’s worse, it raised the question of whether I should unfollow them back! I like to think I am above that, BUT the temptation was still there…

I’m fairly thick-skinned but still quitted Qwitter after 3 days, and have now found my Twitter mojo!

I don’t care to use Quitter. I don’t want to know. I don’t think the post and the unfollow are always related. Let’s worry about the people who are still following – they like who you are.

I’m starting to hate Qwitter. I found out someone I know personally stopped following me and that broke my heart. I know I shouldn’t take it personally, but it’s just Twitter, but I do!

I might stop using it soon, because (like others mentioned above) if they don’t like what I write, then so be it.

Personally, I’m not a Quitter. I am not one to have an eye for details, but when I checked it out, I found it to be inaccurate. Plus, I simply don’t have time for it! I don’t see any value at all for me to know who quit following me or why. Instead, I focus on informing, entertaining, and building relationships with my tweets. So the people that I am looking for as a friend, business partner, or collaborator will appreciate my authentic and sincere tweets. Besides, I have seen twitter randomly cause people to “unfollow” without their knowlege. So if one of your friends suddenly stopped following you, instead of analyzing it, why not just ask him or her?

I use qwitter because I’m a stats junkie. Sometimes I’ll unfollow a person if they unfollow me, especially if they really didn’t interact with me that much in the first place. I do realize that twitter has limits on the number of people you can follow. That’s the reason I like that tool. I don’t really care what people think about me, but it’s interesting to see what makes people unfollow you.

I won’t Qwitter. I can’t stand the heartbreak.

My only issue with Qwitter is that it doesn’t work all that reliably. It’s a pretty easy follow/unfollow system for me, and there’s no heartbreak at all.

If someone is interested in what I’ve got to say and follows me, I’ll return the favour and follow them in turn. Maybe they have something interesting to say too.

If someone unfollows me, that’s cool – they get unfollowed too and life goes on.

2 Differences between my approach and a lot of other Twitter users.

#1 – I have no interest in “optimizing” my Twitter ratio / score / rank / etc. I disagree with the basic premise that lots of followers and relatively few people you listen to somehow makes you a “better” Twitter user.

#2 – I’ve written a bunch of script (some not public yet) that give me a better Twitter experience and give me more options than just Follow / Don’t Follow.

I wrote a small tool called Shadow that lets me quietly follow people’s updates without appearing on their followers list. So if I really want to follow Wil Weaton’s updates but he can’t figure out how to follow more than like… 12 people himself… then I can put him on the Shadow list.

http://www.designmeme.com/shadow-twitter/

So I can continue with my always-follow, always-unfollow approach to Twitter and leave special cases for special tools.

Look at all those smileys! What was I thinking???

I don’t use Qwitter and never will – let me tell you why from the perpective of someone who stopped following another person that I actually know and like very much. I was new to twitter and only following a handful of people to start with. But she just tweeted too often and I would have nothing but her tweets for pages with only one or two people’s individual posts thrown in. I was getting irritated with her and thought why should something like twitter harm a friendship when all I have to do is stop following her? – problem solved. I just hope she didn’t use Qwitter and get her feelings hurt thinking I didn’t like her anymore! Maybe I will follow her again now that I am following a lot more people… hmmmmm

Well Jack. I don’t use Qwitter because I don’t go Twitter-Hunting in the first place. Almost all have followed me, and I usually follow back.
I know by my numbers that many fall away, but at the same time people just keep on following.

I don’t know why it would bother anyone WHO left. Unless it was a specific ‘Twitter-Friend’, but then you’d soon realise that surely?

Pete.

I don’t use Qwitter because I simply don’t have the time. I even forget to pay attention to my number of followers. I guess that makes me a bad Twitter user.

I tweet because I like to connect. Not everyone is going to get me, and I’m fine with that. Those who want to stay – well, hey, thank you, and let’s meet up soon. Those who don’t… we’re both probably better off.

I also don’t do that whole “if you don’t follow me, I’m not going to follow you…” As above, not everyone gets me. And I’m not going to get everyone else. Just because someone follows me does not obligate me to follow him/her.

My wish would be for people to follow those whom they want because there’s a real connection, not because they’re trying to get their numbers up.

All that being said, Jack rocks!

First I always follow every one back as a courtesy. People who don’t, they baffle me, they seem arrogant. But it’s a free world… So Qwitter is essential now that Twitter has these chokes on. After I hit 2000 friends, they blocked me. I could only attract followers and not friend them back. So every time Qwitter told me someone quit me, I unfollowed them, and added a new friend or friended someone back. Once I got to 2000 followers, they unblocked me but now they block me if I get 190 friends in excess of my followers. So Qwitter is crucial. Qwitter told me some gay women dropped me after I twitvoted for McCain so now I am more careful about being publicly outspoken about some sensitive issues. Another must have tool is Mytweeple to find people who are inactive or don’t follow me back. Off with their heads!

I have lost a couple of followers since I started my twitter surge towards the beginning of the month.

The only problem I see with Qwitter is people will over compensate when they loose followers and end up losing even more because they have become “timid” in their posting styl style.

The only way that I’ve changed is that I do not swear as much as I used to, as that will put others off. In fact I don’t think I’ve uttered a single swear word on twitter in anger or in jest.

Hmm, very cognitive post.
Is this theme good unough for the Digg?