How not to use Twitter for marketing: add me - [Direct Message] when I add you back that I should try your service - push it when I say I’ll look into it.
- Twitter user GeekMommy (04/08/08)
Online marketing, digital PR, direct marketing - all of it is based on quality, not quantity. Sure, I could go out and spam the hell out of Twitter with the Noodles, but will that get people to stick around? Hells no. It would probably make them like me even less.
Seriously though, what good is following 21,000 randoms if only 1,500 actually care what you have to say? The time would be so much better spent interacting with those 1,500, working at cultivating prosperous relationships with them!
- Fake Plastic Noodles - What’s with the Compulsive Following, Smarmy?
Just got another spammy follow notification. I think that’s going to be the scourge of twitter, much like spam is the scourge of email
- Twitter user skullydazed (04/08/08)
Get Satisfaction > How should obvious Twitter spam accounts be reported?
There is a lively discussion going on about how to report Twitter Spam. If you have an opinion on this, join in on the conversation.
You follow 8,742 people and have 235 followers. You are a spammer. You’re doing exactly what email spammers do. You’re throwing out as many links as you can hoping to get a few nibbles. And there are a few people who follow you back. And all of a sudden, you think you’re popular. You’re not. You’re a spammer.
- Ryan Kuder - How Do I Follow? Let Me Count the Ways (04/08/08)