Tweeter Karma
Flush your twitter account of those people you follow, that are not following you back, or those who are no-longer posting tweets.
These people are just taking up valuable space in your Twitter account.
Some people follow you for a little while, then un-follow you, leaving your twitter account unbalanced. Sometimes you will follow people without expecting them to reciprocate, but then they stop posting tweets or change the theme of their posts.
Don’t Forget To Flush!
The major reason why you need to kick those accounts that you are following is because, when they do not follow you back, Twitter sees this as against the reasoning of why Twitter was set-up; – To be sociable!
Twitter likes to see Tweeple getting along! Twitter only sets ‘no-limits’ to an accounts follow and un-follow rules, on special accounts for very popular people like pop stars and celebrities (or even big organizations).
The Wall!
You will hit the Twitter wall, each time your account reaches a certain ratio of followers-to-following limits between zero to 2,000 followers.
After that first 2,000 followers, limits increase slightly, but unless you are a celebrity, you will need to ‘flush’ some of those accounts you are following, but who are not following you back, before you can add more new people to follow.
Even if people are following you and you have not yet reciprocated and followed back, you still cannot follow them until you have that ratio figure within the Twitter rules.
For whatever reason, you will want to occasionally have a clear-out of non-followers. (You might even want to clear out reciprocating accounts because their tweets have taken a turn for the worse).
This video demo was made in Jan 20011 to update how Twitter Karma looks and works now. Twitter is a victim of its own success. You occasionally see blackouts, where Twitter is over capacity.
The truth of why some Twitter management tools now longer work as they were initially intended, is because there are so many different Twitter management tools and different applications that put demand on access to Twitter accounts, that you cannot expect Twitter to keep up!
Twitter first has to allocate a usage quota to each application that wants access to manage is members accounts. Twitter has to balance this quota with the popularity or demand for the various tools.
Twitter has another concern too, to try and keep Twitter a ‘social-interactive-media. The who point of social medial is for the users to be ‘sociable’ towards one-another.
ONE-WAY-STREET.
Logically, you cannot possibly ‘know’ and ‘interact on a sociable level’ with every one of your so-called “friends”, if you have 250,000+ of them! With certain types of account becoming basically a ONE-WAY-STREET of information. Its not ’2Me – 2U’ conversation!
This ‘anti-social’ point over-grew Twitter, when the marketers took-over Twitter. You know how it goes, some Twitters are interesting and conversational. You start to follow them. Then they get bigger and get more and more followers.
Not 2Me 2U.
The conversation then gets lost in the crowd and you end up with getting promotional link after promotional link rammed down your throat. The worst part is that they go off topic and one minute they are telling you how to gain more twitter followers and the next they are trying to sell you dog food.
Hey, now I follow a lot of Twitter accounts that are of interest to me. But, I like them to stay on topic! I try to stay on topic on my Twitters and blogs, although I do sometimes drift, I’ll admit.
http://dossy.org/twitter/karma
Hope this helps!
AndyGold.