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I just went through who is following me on Twitter to follow back. I wanted to share what makes me decide to follow someone back or not. Hopefully this information will be useful in helping you get more people to follow you back.
- Profile picture. If you haven’t added one, and you have the egg, it works against me believing you’re a real person.
- Bio. No bio and I’m almost certainly not following you back.
- Sexy profile picture or bio. I’m not interested in connecting with people who might want to meet up or send me pictures with nudity. I often block these accounts.
- You sell followers. I add you to my list (https://twitter.com/joshmccormack/lists/twitter-follower-services) so others can block you, and I block you.
- Auto Direct Message on Follow. Just because I followed you back, don’t think that’s permanent! I’m really against Auto DMs on Follow, but I typically don’t unfollow for them. Many do. @JoelRRenner has a public list of people who Auto DM on follow: https://twitter.com/JoelRRenner/lists/automated-dm-er that makes blocking people who do this all too easy.
When I follow a bunch of accounts and get several auto DMs and they are the same I assume you’re bots and I’ll unfollow and likely block. - Your bio is in a language I can’t even pretend to understand. Won’t always not followback for this, but sometimes it’s the case.
- Your reason for being as stated in your bio is to push tons of links and quotes and things I don’t want.
