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8 Ways to Make Sure I Do NOT Follow You on Twitter

Ian Lurie

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Ian Lurie

8 Ways to Make Sure I Do NOT Follow You on Twitter

This YouMoz entry was submitted by one of our community members. The author’s views are entirely their own (excluding an unlikely case of hypnosis) and may not reflect the views of Moz.

Aw, Twitter's all grown up: It's got spam!

Sniff. I'm so proud.

If you want to make sure I totally ignore your Twitter follow request, please:

  1. Make sure you're following at least 5,000 people, but have only 100 followers.
  2. Have at least 10 of your last 15 posts deal exclusively with Toshiba television sets, pirated software, or discount prescription drugs. I'm not a fan of Toshibas, I just got audited and am trying to steer clear of federal crimes, and I already have to take too many prescription drugs anyway.
  3. Follow 15,000 people, but have only 3 tweets. The suspense alone will kill me.
  4. Use!!! Lots!!!! Of!!!! Exclamation!!!!! Points!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously! I love those!
  5. Use????lots???of???other???weird???characters, because someone's paying you $2/hour to type this, and you're using a computer that's on a different character set.
  6. Write that impossible to understand stuff. 'Cause yeah, I need more bad writing in my life.
  7. Post nothing but TinyURL links with no other text. If I want useless, murky snippets of information, I can look at old Donald Rummsefeld press conferences.
  8. Post the exact same thing about 30 times. I might follow you if I feel I've done something bad and require punishment. But really that's the only way you're going to get me to click the magic button.

Amazing! At least 300 people knew this list before I even wrote it

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Ian Lurie
Ian Lurie is CEO at Portent, an internet marketing agency he started in 1995 on the honest belief that great marketing can save the world. At Portent, he leads and trains a team that covers SEO, PPC, social media and marketing strategy. Ian writes on the Portent Blog and speaks at various conferences, including MozCon, SMX, SES, Ad::Tech and Pubcon. He recently co-authored the 2nd Edition of the Web Marketing All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies.

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