I used Tweepular to rid myself of a bunch of accounts that weren’t returning my follow on Twitter. I shook them off like the fleas they are! The service works great.
Then I happened to check @netkritter, and discovered that a Twitter account called Follower Monitor was notifying many of them that @netkritter had dropped them.
So I looked it up. It’s a bot followed by more than 24,000 people, and that’s all it does. When someone who’s following it gets unfollowed by someone else, it sends them a message alerting them to this disaster.
How incredibly creepy, I thought. There is absolutely nothing we can do online without somebody watching.
And then I immediately hit the Follow button.
