1. Heh. You have to request to follow him. Must be some sort of spam protection. By telling everyone to follow him, in a way he's going to get spammed with dozens of follower requests. That's almost Alanis Morissette levels of ironic.

Posted at 1:05PM on Apr 17th 2008 by Jon Strickland

2. If he really wanted the followers, wouldn't he unprotect himself first? At least for the day?

Since Twitter doesn't allow you to add a reason why you're requesting to follow someone who's protected, I never do so, unless I've had prior contact with them. That just seems bad etiquette (Twitterquette?).

Posted at 3:29PM on Apr 17th 2008 by Joost Schuur

3. You just killed his account, check out his blog post:

http://feeds.mattcutts.com/~r/mattcutts/uJBW/~3/272644118/

;-)

Posted at 7:07AM on Apr 18th 2008 by Tobias

4. He had 1060 requests on twitter. Good job!
Actually make that 1061. Strangely he's only approved 44 people.

Posted at 3:54PM on Apr 18th 2008 by Brent W

5. Firstly ... wtf @ the lolcat outfit :p

I don't really understand the urge to follow or be followed, even find folk padding out their friends lists pretty annoying.

Matt must get bugged by people wanting to bask in reflected glory as it is. Either he has the patience of a saint or he's really pretty pissed right now.

Posted at 11:41AM on Apr 22nd 2008 by Steve Firth