10,000 Twitter Followers. Now What?

By Jim Kukral • March 26, 2009 • Online Marketing, Twitter • 144213 Comments10%2C000+Twitter+Followers.+Now+What%3F2009-03-26+04%3A01%3A58Jim+Kukral

Well, here I am, with supposedly 10k Twitter followers. Yay me.

Here’s what I think. “Big deal”.

What does it really mean? If anything at all?

I Didn’t Try Either
It’s not that I even tried to get them either. The thing is, aside from doing an auto-follow that Twitter themselves turned on for me over a year ago, I don’t even try to get followers. I mean, I have no plan or do no special things to try and get them.

I simply use Twitter as I feel like it. I retweet stuff I find interesting or problem solving or fun. I post tweets about my personal stuff and my business stuff and I’m blatantly promotional sometimes for my stuff. I often have personal conversations with others too. In fact, some, if not many, would consider me a bad follow.

So why do I have 10k followers? Once again, I’m at a Twitter crossroads. Maybe you can help.

Now what? Go for 20k followers? 50k?

What’s the point? It seems to me it’s purely a narcissistic mentality to pursue bigger numbers?

Perhaps I should start a nofollow me campaign like the Burger King “unfriend” me thing on Facebook.

Yeah, that’s it. Do NOT follow me.

Or maybe I should try to be such a bad Tweeter that people will have no choice but to unfollow me.

I wonder how fast I could take my 10k down to 1k?

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Jason Kempshall→
March 26, 2009 at 4:11 am #

Interesting angle, you could always use http://be-a-magpie.com/, that would surely get you down to 1k pretty quick and make you some cash at the same time lol.
Brad C→
March 26, 2009 at 4:27 am #

The real question is how do you follow a stream of 10k people? You must only see a small portion of what your followers say, do you ever feel like you miss a lot?

For me personally I enjoy keeping up with the day to day lives of people I know and the conversation between people on Twitter. I don't think I would use the service if I followed more than 200 people, it would just be a lot of noise.
- Brad C→
  March 26, 2009 at 4:28 am #
  
  PS: that comment wasn't meant to sound snarky, I'm actually curious about how you keep up and filter your tweets.
Factor77.tv→
March 27, 2009 at 2:04 am #

Jim it depends on what your long term goals are. If you are looking to develop deep relationships, having more than a thousand followers on twitter makes it tough. If you are looking to broadcast a message far and wide, the more the merrier!
MLDina→
March 30, 2009 at 11:03 pm #

Make it a contest! The x person to unfollow you (maybe at each 1,000th) gets a prize, and then build it back up again.
Soham→
March 31, 2009 at 4:01 pm #

Wow MLDina got it, you try it and everyone gone in a whiff and if possible show the live status of numbers and see what happens when between 950 and 1000
MLDina→
April 2, 2009 at 7:57 pm #

Twitter UnFollow-A-Thon 2009 to benefit the Niemann-Pick foundation! LOL

OK, or you could just do it for fun.
Dave Sutula→
April 9, 2009 at 4:23 pm #

Jim: i followed you on twitter last night. Your reply is as follows:

Thanks, but I'd rather you didn't follow me. Visit http://www.pleaseunfollowme.com for explanation.

Jim Kukral / jimkukral
follow me at http://twitter.com/jimkukral

Notice anything? You ask us to not follow, but you also have your settings configured to ask us to follow you. What's up? is this some sort of cry for attention? A plea for help? Multiple Personalities?

Also, on your website, you have a big ol' FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER icon there. We. your followers, are damned if we do and damned if we don't!
- Jim Kukral→
  April 9, 2009 at 4:59 pm #
  
  Dave, yeah, I'm kinda doing a social media experiment. I know, it's lame. Humor me this indulgence. :)
Dave Sutula→
April 9, 2009 at 7:38 pm #

Jim: I get it – and it's not lame. I know what you're trying to do and I like it. I'm just ball busting… No offense!

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