What is Qwitter for Twitter? And does it work?
Qwitter is a service that simply notifies you when somebody unfollows you on Twitter. So if I’m ’subscribed’ or ‘following’ your Twitter messages (AKA tweets), then I get a nifty little email telling who unfollowed me, and why.
The problem is… Qwitter doesn’t work. You see, it notifies me of people who unfollow me, but of people who actually never followed me in the first place. I feel this could be because 1 of 2 reasons: 1.) Their system is simply broken and sending out all the wrong notifications to the wrong people 2.) They do it simply for free advertisement, because when they notify you it reminds you of their business – ‘Qwitter’
So most people are saying right now “Why would they ever send out mis-notifications as free advertisement?”
Well, let’s take me for example, I have over 1,080 people who are following me. I clearly can’t remember every single person who has subscribed to me. So if Qwitter tells me about someone who unfollowed me (even if they never followed me in the first place) then the chances are I won’t know that Qwitter is wrong, and I’ll be thrilled with their great service, and preach it to people. But maybe this isn’t the case and its simply just start-up/scaling issues like Twitter has had.
So why do I need to know if people unfollow me on Twitter?
Truth is, you don’t. People are constantly Subscribing and Unsubscribing to my Youtube, Revision3, Mailing List, etc. Its just a play on our natural instincts: if we fail a test we want to know why. If we break up with our girlfriend/boyfriend we want a reason. If we get fired from our jobs we want explanations. Rarely do people EVER walk away from things, or find out about events, and not question what made them happen. So there’s Qwitter for ya: It plays on our curiosities, and uncertainties.
I will say, in Qwitter’s defense, that its’ been correct a few times. But when I say few I mean twice in the past 20 emails or so.
The thing is, you can’t be on defense for everything in your life. Numbers will fluctuate, things will happen, and I feel that people constantly hover over the numbers so much over everything they do that it makes them unproductive. Granted, metrics and things are important, but some things aren’t. Knowing when someone unsubscribes isn’t really an issue – it’s going to happen.
So maybe they’re going through growing pains, just like the service they work with once had, who knows. I use this service, but am thinking about not using it anymore.
What are your thoughts… do you use Qwitter?
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I looked at Qwitter briefly, then decided I didn’t need it.
I *do* pay attention to my following/er numbers though, and if there’s somebody I really wanted to reach via Twitter, I’ll check their page. Otherwise, I let people follow and unfollow who they need to.
I’m about to quit qwitter. I think their algorythms are off, but I think it’s starting to correct itself. Overall, I just don’t think I need to know who is unfollowing me. It was a nice thought, but in the end you’re right. It doesn’t matter.
I will say that someone I personally know (for many years) recently unfollowed me. I panicked and had a ton of insecure thoughts: Why did this person stop following me? Does this person hate me now? Am I a lame twitter poster?
Whatever it was, I’m over it. I might even bring it up the next time I see this person. In the end, you’re right, when you hover over small things like this you become unproductive.
HAHA yea I’m sure we’ve all had people unfollow us who are our good friends. It even happened to me the other week. Makes you think.
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