Truthfully, when is the last time you sat down and sifted through the long list of followers you have amassed on Twitter? Checking the accounts one by one? When is the last time you sorted through the people you are following? What you find may surprise you.
Twitter, like most other social networking sites, is full of dormant accounts. People lose interest and walk away from them. Most of the time, they do so unnoticed. Chances are, some of these people were once your followers and vice versa. You may think you have two thousand followers and carry some degree of clout. You must, right? Two thousand people aren’t diggin’ your tweets for nothin’.
In reality, many of those “followers” haven’t been active on Twitter in months. This same reality applies to the people you are following. We get so caught up in the more prolific Twitter users that we lose sight of those who aren’t very posty. This gives us the impression that we’re more popular than we actually are.
Culling your follower and following list is a must-do for any Twitter user. Aside from giving you the chance to gauge your real popularity on the site, purging the inactive users from your list makes room for people who are actually reading and passing on your tweets.
Which is why you started tweeting in the first place, right?
