Zaskoda » Twitter http://zaskoda.com Don't follow me, you won't make it. Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:49:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Twhores, Twitter, and The Dunbar Number http://zaskoda.com/2009/03/12/twhores-twitter-and-the-dunbar-number/ http://zaskoda.com/2009/03/12/twhores-twitter-and-the-dunbar-number/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:57:14 +0000 Zaskoda http://zaskoda.com/?p=95 I’m annoyed. It’s not a big deal, but it’s annoying me anyway. I keep getting “follows” on twitter from tweeps, usually promoter/advertiser types, with thousands – sometimes tens of thousands of following/ers. These tweeps don’t know me, they don’t know anything about me, and most of all, they don’t care what I have to say.

For those tweeps that are on this mindless mission to collect the largest follow lists possible on Twitter, you need a name. You’re a bunch of attention whores on twitter, so I’ll call you twhores.

If you are following more than 300 tweeps, I call you a twhore.

Why 300? It fits well with the Dunbar number (the number of individual in a social group that the human mind can keep track of). Orginally, Dunbar set the number for humans around 150. Later, it was suggested to be as high as 290. I think 300 is a nice safe margin.

Granted, some brands and other twitter accounts are using twitter for slightly different reasons… but, those aren’t the folks I’m talking about. I think you know who I’m talking about… Maybe someone will come up with a better name for these twhores later on… But for now, I feel a tad better.

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