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  1. redcloud answered: Time. The only unfollowing that ever bothered me was the one where the person DM’d to apologize for unfollowing.
  2. lisarahmat answered: I don’t think I’ll ever recover if my teddy bears unfollowed me.
  3. inthefade answered: I try not to notice my follows so I don’t notice if I was unfollowed. Because it does hurt.
  4. davislove answered: I get twitter dumped all the time. The key is this - just don’t give a shit. I stopped caring and now it doesn’t bother me anymore.
  5. marleymarley answered: I’ve got an ‘ouch’ for you: a FRIEND unfollowed me once. Therapeutic amts of chocolate helps. And throwing darts at a pic of their face.
  6. tj reblogged this from bliccy and added:
    The only time I’ve noticed an unfollow is when...went to DM someone and realized that...
  7. stugazi answered: It’s their loss Bliccy. You are awesomesauce.
  8. steelopus answered: I took a deep breath, counted to 10, and then masturbated. Try it, it works.
  9. ronbailey answered: I’ve had a few that stung myself.
  10. drinkyb answered: I don’t keep track of unfollows if I can possibly help it. It’s too depressing. I even get sad if it’s a spammer unfollow. FML
  11. bananacasts answered: Unfortunately, feelings are now part of the package. Just keep being who you are out here. It’s that person’s loss. Also, gin helps.
  12. lilykily answered: Gosh, I dont know. I have had 3 unfollows that have stung. You never quite forget it.
  13. kathyunderscorel answered: This calls for Twittervenge!
  14. emmyinabox answered: I grumped for awhile, considered unfollowing back, and then walked outside and had a snowball fight. Just get away from da Internet for a bit
  15. coyotesqrl answered: The same way as all my IRL dumpings: yelled at my mother for not keeping up with the bribes.
  16. bliccy posted this

Ouch.

bliccy:

I just experienced my first painful unfollowing. That one hurt. STUPID INTERNET. I THOUGHT I WASN’T SUPPOSED TO HAVE FEELINGS HERE. JUST FUNNIES.

It’s too early to drink so maybe I’ll just put on some I Give Up Clothes, listen to Ryan Adams, and wonder what went wrong? How did you recover from your first Twitter dumping?

The only time I’ve noticed an unfollow is when I went to DM someone and realized that there was no “Message” link on their Twitter page. So I don’t know how long someone has unfollowed.

While a couple have struck me as “Really? You stopped following me? For awhile you liked more of what I wrote than anyone before or since? That’s weird…” I don’t tend to worry about it too much, as I have nearly 15,000 updates on Twitter and always assume I updated too often, or about something that they weren’t interested in.

At least one notable Favrd favorite has unfollowed me twice and several other Favrd regulars have unfollowed as well. One flat out told me, “I’d love to follow you but I couldn’t keep up.” One assumes that they either use Twitter by SMS or feel the need to read everything posted.

The key ingredient is realizing that these are people I have never met in real life(1) and probably never would have met in real life if it wasn’t for Twitter. I’d hope that if we did meet in real life, we could still sit around and have drinks and laughs together, and personally I’d consider that far better than knowing that they subject themselves to my

(My “favorite” was the time I went to offer someone money via PayPal and realized they had unfollowed me, so it literally was their loss. My second favorite was when I realized that someone I had thought about unfollowing — but didn’t want to hurt their feelings — had unfollowed me.)

(1) Now if, say, a people from the Twootinfanny had unfollowed on Sunday morning, I probably would have deleted my account, or moved to Plurk. No, that’s crazy talk. I’d never move to Plurk.

Lots of people compare Twitter/Tumblr/The Internet with high school. (I disagree completely, but for the sake of argument, I’ll use it as an illustration.) Did you stay in touch with everyone you were friends with in high school? Nope. Lives change, people change.

The great thing about Twitter/Tumblr is that there’s a very large supply of awesome (#1 reason I don’t compare it to high school), and probably 5 people you’d like and who’d like your stuff for every one “painful unfollow”.

And now, back to the boobs, or whatever it is that you people who aren’t posting boobs do with this thing.