If this is the case, yes. Though many didn’t start this way – many started the traditional way of reciprocal following and then mass unfollowed. The three above are good examples, because (when was this written? Ah, October) – since October, they have these followers/following ratios but that was not the case before.

The people who would just drop their entire following like that are also the people who have the kind of “marketers” as followers who will auto-unfollow.

The more you’re a follow-wait-unfollow (rinse and repeat) kind of tweep, the more likely you’re picking up “marketing accounts”.

These kinds of accounts are the types of accounts that ALSO need to keep their friend/follower ratio in favour or followers, so they don’t want non-recips in their friends list.

Hope my logic makes sense.

-Alister
.-= Alister Cameron // Blogologist´s last blog ..Copenhagen: a conspiracy of lies and silence! Stop being a mushroom on this issue! =-.

However, I find the idea that some people – no special than anyone else – believe they can continue keeping the same number of followers they had before while unfollowing them, to be arrogant and at times, just plain stupid. Yes, there are exceptions, some people are worthy of special attention even regardless whether their tweets are interesting or not, but before making such a decision, each person needs to ask himself whether he’s one of those. The vast majority aren’t.

Like I said in another post, there are a couple of people who never followed me back and that’s fine. Those who followed me and later unfollowed – I always dropped and never missed their presence. As the images above show, it seems I’m not alone in this behavior. Kind of nice to see that, too.

I will unfollow my unfollowers though, so I have room to follow other people because I learn interesting information every single day from the most unusual sources – and that’s the important part of twitter for me
.-= Heather in Beautiful BC´s last blog ..Writing a Great Sponsored Tweet =-.