Why we unfollow on twitter

Anyone who is on twitter knows that sometimes you can tweet something out of line and can lose a few followers - whether it's a difference in music taste or perhaps you've become (gulp) a bit boring, it's going to cost you a few followers. Reasons for unfollowing has even started trending on twitter - #unfollow. So, we asked some of our followers why they unfollow people on twitter: 'If you tweet too much, and if your tweets are only arb, irrelevant to me and boring.' - Sam Linsell 'Excessive swearing and ridiculous abbreviations.' - Monster's Closet '#too #many #hashtags - and tweeting the link to your new blog post every 30 min.' - Jessica Franks 'Brands that RT every single mention. Boring.' - Meg Pascoe 'Any form of racism, or constant depressing 'feel sorry for me' negativity! Life's too short!! #unfollow' - Ruth Reineke

We also asked the FAIRLADY team why they choose to unfollow people on twitter:

'I generally unfollow people who insist on retweeting any tweet that mentions them - it just chokes up my timeline. I guess it also comes down to what you use twitter for. I choose to follow people that interest me and who are articulate and witty, however as soon as people start to rant, are a bit too negative or go against my values i.e. are racist or homophobic I’m no longer interested – there’s enough negativity in the world, I don’t need it in my twitter feed.'- Jen Searle, digital editor

'I'm not a huge twitter user but the people I have stopped following are usually the incredibly negative sort, people who don't have interesting twitter updates and people who don't load profile pictures - that bugs me.' - Catherine Zachariou, junior beauty editor

'I unfollow people that only ever retweet and never actually tweet their their own opinion.' - Candice Lee Kannemeyer, beauty editor

'I unfollow people if they’re boring, spend too much time talking about nothing (yes, I’m talking about you, @AlecBaldwin) or just aren’t as interesting as I expected them to be.' - Julia Boltt, consumer project manager

Why do you unfollow people on twitter? Tells us on twitter with the hashtag #unfollow or in the comments section below.