Followback?

I must apologize for the lack of content on this blog. Then again, we did state beforehand that our primary medium was Twitter, and this was just for when we have things to say that don't fit into 140 characters. And this is such a case.
This entry is rant-like so... You are forewarned.


What's with the 'follow me and I'll follow you back' Twitter accounts? There are SO many of those, and we often get random messages to do so. We also see many retweets of such thing such as 'If you are born in 91, 92, 93, RT and follow and we will get you more followers!' or something lame like that.

random related image to satisfy people who can't stand a words-only entry.

I mean, it is one thing to want more followers for your account, and it's another to have an account ENTIRELY for that sake. For instance, these accounts only tweet things like 'FOLLOW ME PLX' or 'FOLLOW ME AND GET 50 FOLLOWERS' etcetc.
And for less extreme cases, these accounts will post actual personal tweets ONCE IN A WHILE but they are probably along the lines of 'ohh i aM sHo HaPpiexx i gotz feeef-ty new FOLLOWERS 2dae! whee!', with the bulk of their other tweets being tagged with #followback or something of that sort.

I mean, we understand the desire to have more people read what you tweet - assuming you DO tweet stuff besides 'hey come read what I tweet'.
But we don't understand why you would want random people to 'follow you' just for the sake of racking up follower count. If you follow us, we want it to be because you want to read our tweets. Not because we are part of '#followmeteam' or something lame like that (These DO exist btw)

And of course the last point is that we don't understand the logic of 'follow me and I'll follow you back!' requests. Sure, we know of the norm of reciprocity and all, but we really have no interest in adding a Twitter-spammer to our newsfeed. (as these people usually just tweet those tweets) Even worse, some promote some  weird health products with dubious website links:

I can't believe it's working too. You don't look like you lost 16 lbs.
(yes we are mean.)

So.... that's all. Good luck for your project deadlines and such, the next few week should be killer for many NUS students. And for the rest of you not from NUS and read this... good luck in life I guess. And in getting more followers.