My main reason is that I don&#x27;t want to write to an audience of bots. I&#x27;m using twitter semi-anonymously so none of my real life friends follow me there (I don&#x27;t have a separate account for this), so people who follow me and I follow are the people I&#x27;d talked to before on twitter. If I&#x27;m followed by more bots than actual people, I feel like the social feeling of twitter would fade away. I have a small number of followers (around 70) and keeping my followers as authentic as possible gives me the feeling that people care about what I write. (They probably don&#x27;t but blocking bots gives me the illusion that they do, because my follow count rarely changes.)<p>Additionally, I&#x27;m obsessively organised and spend a lot of time thinking about the tiniest of details and this may be a product of that tiring (and somewhat problematic) personality trait. This is the same reason why I delete my tweets the day after I tweeted them.