Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted April 22, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted April 22, 2014 Don't follow my twitter too closely, but this happens to me all the time on Tumblr, and I always follow back, so unless I dislike someone's content, they're going to get a good few months out of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted April 22, 2014 Moderators Share Posted April 22, 2014 Not weird at all, as it's exactly what I've bolded. Â Follows 14,500 Followers 18,600 Â It's that "HUUR, ME SOCIAL MEDIA GURU" method of mass following, and considering yourself a success because some follow back. Tons of wannabes do it. She's probably never even glanced at her feed. Â That system annoys the crap out of me. Interests me to see who the people are though, just out of curiosity. I tend to get a lot of young racing drivers in lower formula categories pulling that trick since I seemingly tweet about that a lot. I imagine a fair few people on here get the same thing with independent wrestling promotions just starting up. Someone at the student union keeps doing it with me, I've had the notification about half a dozen times in the last year saying they've followed me...then they disappear and try again in a few weeks. Â Yeah, some fucking podcast that CLeslie off here is involved with followed me countless times until I told them in no uncertain terms to fuck off and stop follow/unfollowing me as they were never getting a follow back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted April 22, 2014 Moderators Share Posted April 22, 2014 There's a UKFFer who's followed and unfollowed me three or four times. I won't out them, BUT YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted April 22, 2014 Awards Moderator Share Posted April 22, 2014 I imagine the reason on the last page is why the Backstreet Boys started following me, but I'd like to think Sam Neill follows me through genuine friendship. That or the fact I always mention how much I like Dean Spanley when it gets shown on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted April 22, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted April 22, 2014 There's a UKFFer who's followed and unfollowed me three or four times. I won't out them, BUT YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. It's me isn't it? Â Twitter confuses me. I didn't even know there was a "Block" button until about two weeks ago. Â I keep on getting a load of gambling sites trying to follow me. Ones that dish out tips. I also had an Arabic guy take over my account a few weeks ago. He started retweeting quotes from the Koran. I seem to have raised the wrath of a Nigerian DJ too by blocking him (who I didn't add in the first place. Arabic guy did). Anybody else get that shit? Twitter gives me a migraine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Hamptons Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 Judith Hoag ( The original April O'Neil in The TMNT Film from 1990) Followed me, Must have been on the conversations we had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted April 22, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted April 22, 2014 Rhodri Marsden from The Independent and Scritti Politti follows me but he's a mate from when I did a (completely awful) sports segment on his Resonance FM radio show a few years ago. I usually get really weird follows - I had some kind of nutrition guru follow me the other day, clearly they've missed all my tweets about cake and chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted April 22, 2014 Moderators Share Posted April 22, 2014 Michael McKean from Spinal Tap is my favourite follow. He's RT jokes of mine a bunch of times, and I went all giddy. David Baddiel, Dontos from Game of Thrones, Trevor and Simon from Trevor and Simon (the latter of whom #FF me once); you could say I'm kind of a big deal. Â I mean, you'd be wrong, I'm basically a tramp, but say it all you like. Â Twitter's changed so much the past few years, I have no idea how you even get more than a handful of new followers now. I've basically been on around 900 for the last couple of years. Back in the day, you could get something retweeted by Peter Serafinowicz and easily pick up 50. If someone like Matt Lucas replied to you privately (meaning, just an @ and not a retweet), you'd get a bunch. Now though, even if they've got a million followers, you'll be lucky to get one or two. I guess people are over the "ooh, celebrity seal of approval!" thing now. Â One time, Adrianne Curry the model misunderstood something I said about Perez Hilton being punched and publicly outed me as a woman beater. "Looks like we've got another Chris Brown in @franticplanet" That was a fun couple of hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted April 22, 2014 Moderators Share Posted April 22, 2014 A couple of porn people and dirty models are probably my most famous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted April 22, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted April 22, 2014 A couple of porn people and dirty models are probably my most famous. Â Gladstone, Houchen and you are probably mine. Unless you count PCW who follow anyone that told them they put on a good show, once. Â Well, apart from my alt account where I am followed by a handful of people/studios from the grot industry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted April 22, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted April 22, 2014 Gary Wilson follows me - I'm very happy about that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Wright Mark Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 I have Calum Best following me. Yet he hasn't invited me out for a wild shant with the boys at China Whites and Embassy yet. I guess he's too busy caining some box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted April 23, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted April 23, 2014 Stephen Fry follows me. Arnold Schwarzenegger followed me too at one point, but then he got selective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philo_Vance Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 My old man revealed to me on the phone earlier that while he doesn't have a twitter account, he does every now and again look at my account and read all my tweets. Cue half an hour of going back the last few months to see if I've said anything dodgy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted April 23, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted April 23, 2014 Yeah, my brother does the same. He's under a different name, he's claiming. Â I've been watching what I say any way due to somebody sending the Community Police to my front-door for one of my Youtube videos about six months ago. Some guy said he was going to get me done on Twitter and I didn't believe him. It was regarding the one of me taking a look inside a derelict Reid Street in Bridgeton tenement. Said I was knicking all of the metal out of the building. A bizarre complaint. Luckily the police didn't do anything. Didn't even look at the video. Just got a talking to at my door. 100% true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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