Will you follow people on twitter when they ask you to?

I was having fun at twitter today until I encountered someone twittering me saying “Follow me and I will dm you“.

I find this a little “rude” in one way or another.  But when I google this sentence, it turned out that there are a lot of people doing the same thing.  And they have some interesting responses to this sentence… Let’s see:

1) Follow me too and I’ll DM you something you can use.

2) Can you follow me so I can DM you. Just tried and said you weren’t following. Thx!

3) lots of info..follow me and dm your email and I will send something through for you

4) what do you see on IE7? Would you send me a screen grab, please? Would love to help. Please follow me, and I will DM you

5) Follow me so I can DM you and enter.

There are a lot more.  I believe there are quite a number of twitter users finding this sentence quite offending in one way or another.  But having to say so, it is still good to understand that you just wish to communicate with that person, and hence you want to follow.  There is always a button to unfollow, so don’t make a big fuss out of it.

I found another relevant blog post about the same topic on “How to be anti-social on social media“.

So the next time people ask you to follow so that they will dm you, I think you can just do so, just like me!