Twitter is Weird
hurry and follow @planarrowspace!
What is Twitter for?
(Twitter is a web site.)
OKAY BUT HOW DO I GET MORE FOLLOWERS THOUGH
Method 1: Be interesting
Works well for Perry, Bieber; less so for Obama.
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TOO HARD OKAY NEXT
Method 2: Buy bot followers
e.g., $5 for 10k followers on fiverr
BUT THEY'RE NOT REAL PEOPLE THOUGH
Method 3: Interact with people
IRL (!?), @messaging, etc.
AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT
Method 4: The Singularity
24% of tweets are from bots.
∴ Become a bot yourself.
YES THIS IS WHAT I'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF
#fail
Robo-Holla'ing at Twitter Users (w/out sounding like Eliza)
Auto-fave v.2013: "Twitter Should Shut Me Down"
Now: Totes shut down.
Auto-fave v.2014: there's some other one
OKAY FAVING IS LAME THOUGH I WANT FOLLOWS
The follower of my follower
is my friend...
briefly
PLUS: improved experiment (thanks to heartbleed)
TwitterAPI
twitter.api.request('followers/ids')
twitter.api.request('followers/ids',
{'user_id': myfollower})
twitter.api.request('friendships/create',
{'user_id': tofollow})
twitter.api.request('friendships/destroy',
{'user_id': tounfollow})
Results
April 18 to May 10 (≅3 weeks)
followed 687, unfollowed 487 (still follow 200* on May 20)
BUT HOW MANY FOLLOWED BACK THOUGH
70 of the 687, 47 of the 487, 23 of the 200 (as of May 18)
That's about 10%
* Some ppl you can't even follow (only 187 actual follows).
Upsides?
- Slightly (slightly) less filter bubble?
- Learn about weird twitter services:
- truetwit.com
- unfollowspy.com
- unfollowers.com
- justunfollow.com
- opensiteexplorer.com
- that last one just happened
- to be on the same sticky note
- FOLLOWERS DUH
Downsides?
- porn accounts exist on twitter?!?!?!
- emo-bots? is this even related?
fin
By ajschumacher
Adventures in the strange world of twitter
