Shared publicly  -  I have just taken the decision that in the
next day or so I will be unfollowing every follower I have on my
@ProBlogger Twitter account and starting again with following
people.  I wanted to explain why I'm doing it here:  Why I
followed so many people I currently follow around 78,000 people.
I initially followed people in such high numbers for two
reasons:  1. to reciprocate - I've always felt strange about
having people follow me and not following them back. Perhaps
this is my 'people pleaser' trait in action on the web.  2. to
open up DM conversations - I used to use Direct Messaging as
much (if not more than) as 'Replies' on Twitter. Following
people in large numbers opened up the opportunity for this.  Why
I'm unfollowing everyone and starting again  In the past few
months I've realised that in trying to please everyone I am
ending up making Twitter less useful to anyone. While perhaps
the reciprocation does please some it has made Twitter a lot
more noisy for me - which means I becom