I use twitter exclusively for social reasons. There are a great many people who use the system for everything but. No judgments, but if I say something personal that’s important to me and 27 people drop me because of it as happened to me July 4th, I want to know.

Mostly I want to know so we don’t do the whole follow unfollow dance ever again.

This systems shows you who they are. Once you see them you can then decide if you want to play their games.

Instead, what I realized is that it’s important to be yourself, and that you shouldn’t worry about why someone does or does not follow you. If you’re trying to change the way that you are and the way that you want to tweet because you want to keep your follower numbers high, then those followers don’t really have a lot of value because they’re not following the real you; they following a tamed down, censored and overly-cautious version of you.

In addition, there are a number of reasons why someone might unfollow, and just knowing what tweet they left after often doesn’t give you any insight into them. Sure, if you get a huge spike of Qwits then you probably did something that pissed a few people off, but that’s not how it usually happens, and if you piss a lot of people off with a single tweet, then you probably don’t need a service to tell you what that controversial tweet was.

When I wrote the piece, I didn’t have any problem signing up or using Qwittter. It can be delayed a bit if there’s a lot of Twitter traffic, but I think that goes for a lot of Twitter services from time to time.

I’ve also been wondering about the supposed quality of one’s followers. So perhaps it’s ‘good’ that random weirdo unfollowed me and the ratio of ‘weirdos’:'good quality’ followers increases?