Do You Know Each Person You're Following On Twitter? You Might Want To Check

If you follow more than 500 people, odds are you don’t know each and every one of them personally – or even remotely. But should you? During a recent debate, one political candidate accused another of attempting to follow his 14-year-old daughter on Twitter. The accused claimed he had no idea, blaming a staffer-automation combo for the mix-up. Is this acceptable?

On Twitter it’s common to see folks with following/follower ratios in the thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

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