{"id":90,"date":"2012-01-05T12:57:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T12:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tellmetxt.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2021-03-26T13:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T13:29:02","slug":"is-truetwit-losing-you-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flinca.com\/blog\/is-truetwit-losing-you-followers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is TrueTwit losing you followers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flinca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/deadbird.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flinca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/deadbird.jpg?resize=200%2C179&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dead Bird\" class=\"wp-image-89\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Image supplied by flickr.com\/photos\/flossyflotsam\/<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;love twitter,&nbsp;I think micro-blogging is a fantastic invention, and it has created a whole industry of software, experts and advisers around it. Fantastic! However, of all the tools created that help you manage your twitter account(s),&nbsp;I just do not see the point of TrueTwit &#8211; worse,&nbsp;I find it annoying!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the uninitiated, TrueTwit is a validation tool you can sign-up to use to ensure that anyone following you on twitter is a real person. This is done using a popular technique called Captcha, where you are prompted to enter some words that are displayed obscurely, rendering them virtually impossible to be interpreted by anything other than a human. Only once you have done this correctly will you be able to follow a twitter user who is subscribed to TrueTwit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a real issue with this, to the point where I have now become very selective about who I choose to follow that is subscribed to TrueTwit. I use the twitter app on my mobile a lot and when I try to follow a TrueTwit subscriber I&#8217;m redirected to my mobile web browser, and it just kind of all grinds to a halt. Unless I know I really need to follow that individual, at this point I just don&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondly, what exactly is the point of TrueTwit? Please enlighten me! Why should I care if anyone following me is a real person or not? After all, I do not get to see the twitter stream of my followers unless I choose to follow them back, and similarly they cannot send me direct messages unless I have followed them back. A twitter follower who is not a real person does nothing other than up my follower numbers, so why should I mind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless TrueTwit starts to work in reverse, in being able to stop me from following people who aren&#8217;t real, then I really cannot see a reason to start using it. So if you are a real person and would like to <a title=\"flincauk on twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/flincauk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow me<\/a>&nbsp;on twitter, then you can be assured of a TrueTwit-free experience. 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