Comments on: I don’t give a damn about your affiliate offer or whatever you’re trying to sell to me on Twitter

By: ultrasound technician schools

ultrasound technician schools — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:33:51 +0000

Here’s a great idea. Whenever someone follows me on Twitter I’ll send them a little direct message back thanking them or something. Okay maybe I’ll throw a link to my blog in too.

By: Clement

Clement — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:21:40 +0000

I think you are right about the spam and auto generated responses. I don’t think it is going away any time soon. If it does then another tool will be made to get around the temporary fix. The only thing left I feel is just to ignore what comes from unknown or untrusted sources.

By: Life Quote

Life Quote — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:33:46 +0000

It’s just the evolution of extreme annoyance. First we had the door to door marketer, then the telemarketer, then email spam, now social media junk (needed a new word other then spam). Soon we’ll probably have people zapping our brains directly. That is the downside to marketing, if you do a good job, people find you, especially the ones you don’t want.

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:40:37 +0000

Twitter is a good marketing tool but it is about building relationships and trust – not a hard sell!

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:21:30 +0000

I have totally given up with Twitter and opened a new accout for friends and family only. Even thats hard work to keep up with.
Shame cos it can be such fun tho ..

Anna

By: Sebastian Johnsson

Sebastian Johnsson — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:27:19 +0000

@Dawn:
Initially I tried to do what you are doing, but after a while it got a bit tedious to look up who’s sending spammy direct messages and unfollow them – all because of the amount of people I follow on Twitter.

Interesting blog post by the way!

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By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:59:58 +0000

Hi Sebastian :)
I just blogged yesterday about a very similar topic, only I expanded beyond Twitter. http://dawnaturservice.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/networking-turn-offs/

My only option is to unfollow anyone who spams me via direct message until Twitter puts something into place. I agree with Vince, if you’re going to spam me, don’t even ad me.

Dawn
http://twitter.com/DawnAturService

By: Sebastian Johnsson

Sebastian Johnsson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:29:10 +0000

@Video

Yeah, as soon as Twitter get some anti-spam system going I also believe that the whole experience will be better for everyone. But until then I guess you have to choose between having a lot of friends and having heaps of spam DMs or having a few friends (and probably far fewer followers) and less spam DMs.

By: Video Phone Information

Video Phone Information — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:37:31 +0000

The worst thing about Twitter is just that. I’m not asking any person I follow to automatically email me some stupid offer. 95% of my direct messages are also spam offers. I ‘unfollow’ these people as soon as they spam me I don’t care who they are. Once twitter sorts this out it’ll be a better experience for everyone.
I too have an Auto message, but it says ” Hey, thanks for the following, looking forward to your friendship. Vince.
It looks real but more importantly it’s genuine. If your going to spam me don’t even add me please!!

http://www.twitter.com/vincecianci

Vince.