Reasons why people unfollow you on Twitter

Twitter is such a great platform to meet and interact with people online, and get feedback real time.  The beauty of Twitter is that people follow each other, converse and share information, 140 character at a time. When I was new on Twitter, people were more into sharing information and conversing. People followed other people because of the benefits of learning from them. However, over the past year, people seem to be so obsessed with the number of followers that they have and things have changed.  Some people treat Twitter as a popularity contest. Others treat twitter as an instant messaging service and they expect you to respond to everything at once. Others worry when people unfollow them.

Twitter followers are very important and keeping these followers is another important task that must not be overlooked. Followers hate irrelevant tweets, so in order not to make your audience hit their ‘Unfollow’ button you must make relevant and interesting tweets. Though tweeting of irrelevant content is not the only reason for audience to hit their ‘unfollow’ button, there are several reasons why people unfollow your Twitter account, such as: too much of self promotion, too much automation, spamming, repetition, too many begging tweets and etc.tc.