Lately there has been a trend of some really big people on twitter engaging in massive unfollowings. For me I don’t agree with this as I really believe that the golden rule of Twitter is that you have to engage in the conversation.  This means that in my opinion it is a good idea to more or less have the same ratio of following to followers. My reasons are simple and I want to share them, but as always you should use Twitter as it best fits your needs, how you want to use Twitter, and not how someone should tell you to.

1.    You can’t engage in a conversation if you don’t follow people

2.    I don’t want to hear just myself speak

3.    I can learn more from others

4.    There are a lot more people interesting than me

5.    I’m not an expert in everything

6.    I’m not some self proclaimed Social Media Expert

7.    I’m not into pumping my EGO – (I’m not talking EGO in the Rand sense) but in the modern negative connotations

8.    You have a larger group of friends that you can talk to

9.    You have more opportunities to engage in the conversation

10. It opens up new opportunities and networking results.

Tags: conversation, Twitter