Twitter follows VS. Tumblr follows for the 2020's crowd:
A quick helper lesson for twitter people that are now on tumblr:
I know it's DEFINITELY a "culture clash" issue for you [ Twitter peeps ] that you can't understand why you can't get tumblr users to immediately follow you after you follow them. I'm seeing brought up over and over, and let me clear the air for you...
We here on tumblr understand you [ Twitter peeps ] put much of your self-worth on how many people follow you back or follow you at all. We do NOT follow-for-follow on tumblr. We look at your blog. We look at you. If we don't mesh, we don't care if you followed a bunch of us first, we won't follow back. It's not that kind of community vibe here.
We only follow who we are comfy with, and don't give a crap about follow counts. Let me correct myself--we used to, back in the dark ages of 2011-2014. But we all learned collectively, that follow counts are bullshit, and 99% of your followers don't even interact with you or are inactive most of the time. So many of my follows on my rp blogs are dead blogs! I have an "impressive" 3k follow-count over there, but I only have about 20-25 or so blogs that still live and talk with me. So 3k means NOTHING.
We value our core followers that constantly chat with us and interact with us.
So if you all quit or feel rejected after one week of tumblr-ship, because you still only have a follow count that barely reaches 20 people, be patient. We here on tumblr have cultivated followers over the course of years of interaction. Some people still only have a few, and some are strictly private. If you are only on tumblr for fake people following you, maybe this isn't the social platform for you. 🤷♀️
That is one of the biggest differences between tumblr and twitter. We pick and choose who we have on our dashes and don't blindly follow just because we want a meaningless number sitting there in the corner, "determining our worth."
We are happy with our circles of friends/followers that interact with us, and that's alright.
