Men following you on twitter, how do you feel about it?

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Permalink Reply by Cara on October 29, 2008 at 11:55am

I actually noticed the other day that a guy started following me, too. It has a picture of his family as his avatar, but the name is just his. If I were to get a bunch of them all together I don't think I'd be very comfortable with it, but just one or two is many to worry about (unless of course they start acting creepy!).

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Permalink Reply by Dani C. on October 29, 2008 at 12:02pm

The only men following me are homeschool dads. It's a bit odd but they seem nice.

If they get creepy I will just block them!

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Permalink Reply by minnemom on October 29, 2008 at 2:30pm

I have about 1500 followers and some of them are men. I follow some men as well. Most are just normal people; you can usually tell the strange ones by looking like some of their past posts.

Linda

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Survillas on October 29, 2008 at 2:51pm

i don't care that they follow me...I don't follow back. I wouldn't like my hubby making friends with women online, therefore, I don't think that I should be making friends with men.

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Permalink Reply by kks2kids on October 29, 2008 at 9:25pm

I am sure itis because you are such a star. Seriously, can you block them if you feel weird? I am new to twitter so I don't have many followers and certainly no men but I think you should listen to your gut.

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Permalink Reply by misty (myinspirationlounge.com) on October 29, 2008 at 10:16pm

Thanks for all the reply's...I was just wondering how different women reacted! I am trying to stay aware of all the social media and how I am using it since I do have two little girls and mention them often.

I love all the women that connect here at twittermoms...I wish I had more time to hang out!

Cheers! Misty

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Permalink Reply by Val on November 1, 2008 at 12:13am

Since I have a lot of business tweets and also have a lot of big affiliate marketers that follow/I follow, I never thought twice about the guys following me. Plus mine has my fitness site listed and that I'm a personal trainer. So it's always been a guys world before.

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Permalink Reply by Val on November 1, 2008 at 12:14am

Oh and I do have a few guys that I converse with on twitter. So, nope, I guess I don't find it creepy at all.

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Permalink Reply by misty (myinspirationlounge.com) on November 3, 2008 at 4:59pm

Thanks Ladies! Love all the different perspectives. Twitter is used a lot for business so I can see where men following is not a problem. There are a few that stand out where they might have an agenda so I just block them and go on my way :)

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Permalink Reply by Vics on November 5, 2008 at 3:05pm

I'll go check out the page of whoever adds me, if I feel we have something in common or they amuse me I'll add them right back, if they seem 'dodgy' as in they only seem to have women in their contacts or they are obviously bulk adding folks to spam them - I block 'em. Anyone that falls in between i just leave, they can follow me if they want, can't think why they want to but it's a free country - anything I say on twitter I'd say in a busy pub, if folks want to eavesdrop it's up to them.

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Permalink Reply by Willowbottom on November 5, 2008 at 5:07pm

Hi, Misty. I have some friends who have hundreds if not thousands of people following them. Most of them are just interested random strangers. I suspect a few of them follow me because my tweets meet certain keyword searches. For example, for about two days, I tweeted only in Haiku -- three people started following me with the word "haiku" in their moniker. When I tweeted for a day about my financial frustrations, I got 2-3 people for are ostensibly in the financial market following me.

I think some follow because they expect a reciprocal follow, and others because they want their TwitterGrade (twittergrader.com) to go up. While a lot of us just use Twitter for fun and to stay connected in 140-char chunks, a lot of people use this as a networking and extension of their marketing/advertising efforts.

Now, if none of that seems like the guys who are following you AND if they happen to be local to you (whether you feel local is in your city or within a five state region) AND it creeps you out, just block 'em. (However, bear in mind that a block I believe only blocks that moniker not their IP -- they could create another account and follow you that way and you wouldn't know it.)

Hope that helps...without terrifying you. :)

T.

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Permalink Reply by GailTravel on November 5, 2008 at 5:37pm

it don't bother me at all. If there is someone suspicious ai don't follow them.

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