DELETE.
But it made me think of how frequently I receive these email alerts, and Management Measures , so I waded back through my email folders (I have a folder for each month’s emails, “Trash201110, Trash201109, Trash201108 etc.” and made a quick tally of emails announcing my Devoted Followers:
Cumulative | ||
|---|---|---|
Mar | 14 | 14 |
Apr | 22 | 36 |
May | 11 | 47 |
Jun | 20 | 67 |
Jul | 25 | 92 |
Aug | 23 | 115 |
Sep | 33 | 148 |
Oct | 20 | 168 |
Current | 52 |
Now I had also received by email twitters statistics for the merry week of this, and in it I noted “Followers=51; Growth this week=2; Prediction next week=49”, and leaving behind the question of why a growth of 2 this week might lead to fewer followers next week, I pondered why, after 168 announcements of followers, I have retained only 30% of the camp.
The rest have de-camped, it seems.
“BeerGuy”, “SexyTeen” and “DeadMeat” along with them, I hope.
Twitter, of course, never sends me an email lamenting the loss of a follower, only another young hopeful who has been led to believe that by following me they’ll look good and land that multi-million dollar contract.
“Give up!”, is my message. I’m having enough trouble as it is landing a multi-thousand dollar contract, let alone boosting total strangers to vast riches.
How about you?
How many followers have you attracted and lost, and do you care?
