--- title: "10 Reasons I Don’t Follow You on Twitter" id: "2385" type: "post" slug: "10-reasons-i-dont-follow-you-on-twitter" published_at: "2011-08-28T14:30:28+00:00" modified_at: "2011-08-28T14:30:28+00:00" url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/10-reasons-i-dont-follow-you-on-twitter/" markdown_url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/10-reasons-i-dont-follow-you-on-twitter.md" excerpt: "I’m not a huge twitter user, though I have found it to be an interesting and useful medium. I don’t automatically follow everyone that follows me and in general I don’t follow back if: You’ve never tweeted anything or you......" taxonomy_category: - "Personal" --- [Skip to the content](#site-content) [John Poelstra](https://johnpoelstra.com) ### Bringing order to chaos and clarity to confusion - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [Coaching for Directors](https://johnpoelstra.com/coach/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) Toggle search field - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [Coaching for Directors](https://johnpoelstra.com/coach/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) # [10 Reasons I Don’t Follow You on Twitter](https://johnpoelstra.com/10-reasons-i-dont-follow-you-on-twitter/) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/astielau/5905377578/in/photostream/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/astielau/5905377578/in/photostream/) I’m not a huge [twitter user](http://twitter.com/#!/johnpoelstra) , though I have found it to be an interesting and useful medium. I don’t automatically follow everyone that follows me and in general I don’t follow back if: 1. You’ve never tweeted anything or you haven’t tweeted anything in the last 6 months. 2. You have very few followers. 3. You use a *robo-tweeter* that appears to auto-post quotes and other random stuff multiple times a day, usually every hour, every single day of the week. 4. Your tweet stream is mostly about you, promoting your product or referencing your latest blog post. 5. You mostly tweet about things about your industry that I don’t follow or am not interested in. 6. Your tweet stream contains no re-tweets or interesting links to other people’s content. 7. Your tweet stream feels like a one-way conversation. 8. Your twitter stream is mostly shout-outs and multiple tweets to everyone you know or that has recently mentioned your name. 9. You don’t have a picture 10. Your profile summary is empty Of course, these are not hard and fast rules for me and isn’t to say that if you are doing these things you are doing it wrong. *[Image by Alexander Stielauvia flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/astielau/5905377578/in/photostream/) used under a [Creative Commons license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) .* #### John Poelstra John Poelstra coaches directors in finance and software. Trained through the Co-Active Training Institute, he has coached for more than 10 years, with over 520 clients and 3,150 sessions, including people at well-known Fortune 100 companies. In over 30 years of professional experience, he spent 25 in technology and finance: software testing, project management and team leadership at Red Hat and Dell/EMC, and finance as a bank auditor at Wells Fargo and a CPA at Grant Thornton. He hosts The John Poelstra Show podcast and is based in Portland, Oregon. [Author archive](https://johnpoelstra.com/author/john-poelstra/) [Author website](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-john-poelstra-show/id1130635146) August 28, 2011 [Personal](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/personal/) [Previous post](https://johnpoelstra.com/throw-me-over-a-waterfall/) [Next post](https://johnpoelstra.com/openshift-express-servname-not-supported-for-ai_socktype/) ## 2 Comments ## [Add yours](#respond) 1. Jennifer Crawford[September 6, 2011 at 10:13 pm](https://johnpoelstra.com/10-reasons-i-dont-follow-you-on-twitter/#comment-1074) [Reply](#comment-1074) How about #11: “Twitter takes us out of the present moment, and the present moment is what we should be focused on.” Hello Johnny P! 🙂 [Reply](#comment-1074) 2. [brijwhiz](http://brijwhiz.wordpress.com) [August 28, 2011 at 9:52 pm](https://johnpoelstra.com/10-reasons-i-dont-follow-you-on-twitter/#comment-1026) [Reply](#comment-1026) Very interested that you have point 6 as a reason to not follow. 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