If you frequent Twitter, you’d notice the recent uproar of some users who rant about users who recently mass unfollowed other Twitter users. The most mentioned ones are Jason Calcanis (Founder of Weblogs, Inc., TechCrunch50 and Mahalo) and Joel Comm (Author of Twitter Power).

I honestly do not get why there is such a commotion regarding the issue, some claim that these influential Twitter persons are enraged by how celebrities gather new followers without lifting a finger. A particular celebrity example would be Ashton Kutcher, who first tweeted on January 16th; he currently has around 190,000 followers.

I definitely agree with what Calacanis has said here:

Jason Calacanis:

@followunfollow also, you can’t follow anyone if you follow everyone… tweets race by so fast you’re blind. also, twitter clients break.

I used to follow everyone who follows me but I realized that it basically has no benefits. Your Twitter homepage gets flooded with tweets which you will definitely not be able to keep up with, sort of like how the public timeline behaves. Plus some users tweet in a foreign language, there is a possibility that they understand some of your English but you totally don’t understand their foreign language. Bottom line is YOU decide who you want to follow, because it is YOUR Twitter account.

Search results for “unfollowing” brings up some rather interesting tweets regarding the recent mass unfollowings.

How about you? Do you follow everyone who follows you? Why? Related thoughts on the matter are also welcome.