Some Just Get It

Today I came across Mike Fruchter’s blog post titled: Fake following in social media: Yay or Nay? - which he gives TweepleTwak.com a kind mention. His post summed up nicely both the debate as well as the initial spark which led to the creation of Tweeple Twak.

Had I got an unfollow notification, I could of used this as feedback to increase the quality of my postings and learn what caused that individual to unfollow me. Then there are the people who play the numbers game. Their goal is to have the following/follower field even on both sides. Notifications would serve for them as an instant friends list degreaser.

As you can see below, Tweeple Twak is spot-on with Mike’s vision:

The above screenshot shows someone I personally lost yesterday. While My feelings are far from hurt, I am now at ease with the visibility TweepleTwak provides to this numerical decrease in my followers