Quitter lets you know why you’re being dumped on Twitter
By Emily Price
Breaking up is hard to do, especially when you’re the one being dumped, and you don’t exactly know why. While no solution to real life heartbreak, a new site, Quitter is designed to let you know why your Twitter followers suddenly decided to jump ship.
The site ideas and design is pretty simple. All you need to do to use Quitter is give them your Twitter username (or the username you want them to follow-it looks like you could follow others as well) and an email address where you want to have updates sent to. Once you do that, the site will begin to follow that particular Twitter account, and send you an email when someone decides to stop following you along with the last tweet you posted before they hit that “unfollow” button.
I started using Twitter back in the day when it was still in uber beta form (my username is “Emily” if that’s any indication of how early I was tweeting). I’m horribly surprised that the site has gotten to be as popular as it is today. My local CBS station uses Twitter, CNN uses Twitter, and simple status updates have really turned into a way of life for quite a few people.
Do we really need to know when people decide to stop following us? My usual tweets are something to the effect of “Cooking dinner” “Going to a hockey game” or “Ready to pass out from exhaustion” so if someone was to stop following me I would probably think something to the effect of “Wow! They finally got a life!” but for other people like businesses, it could be pretty interesting to see what the breaking point was for some of your followers, where they decided they had no interest in following you anymore.
A lot of the people I follow have started using Quitter and a few have posted tweets when people have stopped following them along with what they had last said before the break-up. Nothing has really been that exciting, I’m of the opinion most of these people just decided to unfollow, just because “It’s not you, it’s me.”
Are any of you using Quitter? Anyone quit following you after a great tweet? Feel free to Follow or unfollow my infrequent and boring updates @ “Emily”.
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