You know how people twitterfy a word by changing the first letter or two to TW? Now you know what my post title means.
I am sick and tired of getting told someone is following me on Twitter just to find that they're also following anywhere from 500-15,000 other people. If you're following more than 100 people, it's going to be darn hard for you to pay attention to them all. If you're following 3,000 people, you're just peddling twullshit.
Sure, you have a huge number of people following you, most of whom just reciprocally follow anyone who follows them, and to the uninformed and uninitiated, it may look like you're a master of the social networking universe. But if you've actually followed a few people whose tweets you give a damn about, you know that there are only so many you can follow before you hit an overload point. That number depends on you and the tweeting frequency of those you follow, but it's well below 500, and WAY below 15,000. And I just hope whomever you're trying to fool might somehow find this post, so they know how much twullshit you're peddling.
So anytime I get an announcement that someone is following me on Twitter, I check their page. If they're following more than 300 people, I block them. If they get enough people blocking them, they might get their account suspended. They're no better than spammers. It's just a complete and pointless waste of time. They're not paying attention to the people they follow, and many of the people following them in turn aren't paying attention to them. So they all tweet off into the ether, but no one listens. It's just a big Twitter circle-jerk, or "twasturbation."
So I'm calling shennanigans on everyone who follows way more people than they can pay attention to just to get followed back. You're just twasturbating twullshitters, and you suck.
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