a blip in the tweetstream

I had a lesson the other day when I was trying out blip.fm. (For those of you who don't know, and perhaps don't care except you happen to be reading this, blip.fm is a music service where you can play DJ and send out your song selections on Twitter.) I blipped exactly two songs...and my Twitter 'followers' count dropped by five.

On Twitter, your follower count is never stable. Often people (and spam accounts) will follow you just so you will follow them back. If and when you don't, they remov...