Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Meltdown in the Twitterverse

Monday, the folks over at Twitter were working to fix an auto-follow-type bug and many people in the Twitterverse went into panic mode right away because their Following/Followers lists had apparently been wiped out to zero. Now for those of you that weren't on Twitter at the time - your Twitter stream was still visible to you as a user so it was pretty obvious that you were still following everyone you'd chosen to follow. But there were still a large number of people that went into a panic that they had lost their followers.

I was simply amazed at the number of people that were upset AND how few mentions there were of no longer following those they had chosen to follow - meaning most people were simply concerned that people were no longer following them. Now granted I have just a little less than 300 followers and follow a little less than 200, but I just don't see what the big deal was. If I'm saying things that others find to be truly meaningful and worthwhile won't they find me and start following me again? And vice versa: I know who I would start following again because I know whose tweets I find compelling and interesting. 


So personal reflection time: What does it say about us if we are freaking out when something like losing our Twitter followers happens? 


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