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There is one thing that ticks the annoying box for me on Twitter is people that follow you and you read through their updates and all you see is “me, me, me” updates, where all they are doing is pushing links to their sites and not replying to others in return.

So if you want me to follow you back here are my simple criteria:

1. Speak to your followers, engage with them. If I see you are doing that then I will follow you back.

2. This is not a strict criteria it depends if my “spidey sense” is tingling, if I see lots of followers/following and zero updates then I tend not to follow back, however if something tells me that in future you might have something interesting to say or offer me, then I’ll follow you back.

3. Auto DMing me, I don’t mind it, but it would be nice to have a follow up DM from a human being.

So bear this in mind when you follow me, follow me because you find me interesting not just because you are trying to bump up your follower numbers.

I started out like that, but I soon came to realise that you are not going to generate meaningful relationships that way.

So lets spread the twitter love wisely, that way twitter can become “awesome”.