Twitter Twits

Yep - it was bound to happen Dana, all the more reason to follow more established, higher quality tweeters, there are many good examples perhaps we should be posting so people are better educated as to the proper way of using Twitter.

Jeff

hi,

yes but so many do it, & so many people even on here recommend using twitter for promoting their businesses, as though it is becoming a must to twit!!!!

True, but don't you hate it when a fun and interesting resource gets cluttered up with crap (did I say crap?) that you have to wade through because of those inconsiderate twits (or tweets, in this case)?

TomG.

Yes this sort of thing is bound to happen.

I think Joel must be working off numbers, as if 100 people post spam messages and he gets 4 sales from it he profts.

Although not good though!

Followers echo 'rules' like:

"Don't sell on Twitter"

"Don't post affiliate links on Twitter"

"Don't self-promote on Twitter"

... and more.

Leaders TEST everything - and keep doing what works.

SMART leaders keep the focus where it matters - on helping their followers.

Twitter is the quintessential 'permission marketing' social network.

You spam - they leave - you lose.

Simple and sweet.

All success
Dr.Mani
I tweet as '@drmani'

Dana, I think the spamming is just started
everyday now I get these someone sending
me sex stuff to follow them.

It's only the start..

--David

What I love about Twitter is that my Twitter experience is exactly what I want it to be at any given moment. I can instantly unfollow negativity, agenda-pushers or spammers, and at the same time delve deeper into the conversations I want to see or participate in by following or searching.

Kristi

You do seem to be obsessed with people using the word "spam" in a way that you don't like. Last time I checked, we do still have freedom of speech here, so I - and others - are going to continue using the word "spam" in the way that I see fit.

And the way many people use the word "spam" these days is to describe communication that is perceived to be annoyingly, excessively commercial.

Here is FTC commentary on whether an email is to be considered commercial in nature. Yes, I know Twitter is not email. However, if you asked the vast majority of people who sign up to Twitter if they want to follow people who are going to be sending out commercial sales tweets, I am positive they would say no.

"The final Rule sets forth criteria for determining the primary purpose of various kinds of e-mail messages. These criteria include:

* For e-mail messages that contain only the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service ("commercial content"), the primary purpose of the message will be deemed to be commercial;

* For e-mail messages that contain both commercial content and "transactional or relationship" content as set forth in the Act's definition of "transactional or relationship message" and in the final Rule, the primary purpose of the message will be deemed to be commercial if either: 1) a recipient reasonably interpreting the subject line of the e-mail would likely conclude that the message contains commercial content; or 2) the e-mail's "transactional or relationship" content does not appear in whole or substantial part at the beginning of the body of the message;

* For e-mail messages that contain both commercial content and content that is neither "commercial" nor "transactional or relationship," the primary purpose of the message will be deemed to be commercial if either: 1) a recipient reasonably interpreting the subject line of the message would likely conclude that the message contains commercial content; or 2) a recipient reasonably interpreting the body of the message would likely conclude that the primary purpose of the message is commercial. Factors relevant to this interpretation include the placement of commercial content in whole or in substantial part at the beginning of the body of the message; the proportion of the message dedicated to commercial content; and how color, graphics, type size, and style are used to highlight commercial content; and
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# For e-mail messages that contain only "transactional or relationship" content, the message will be deemed to have a "transactional or relationship" primary purpose"

The full name of the CAN-SPAM act is: Controlling the Assault of NON-SOLICITED Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003

Emphasis on the non-solicited.

The premise of Twitter is that people are posting about what they are doing or thinking right at the moment. So when I sign up to follow someone on Twitter, I do not want or expect to get a sales pitch sent to me. I feel that it is UNSOLICITED.

I know that some people disagree.

Twitter has given me a ton of ghostwriting business. I highly recommend it.

Guys, if you didn't notice, Joel Comm came on here and answered us! I appreciate it.

Hey, I will say this much for Joel - he's following me on Twitter. I truly hate it when I see a major marketer on there with 5000 people following them and they follow like 12 people. I think it's incredibly egotistic and arrogant.

Joel, I can't argue with success. But I agree with you that at the VERY least you should have had people vary their message.

I personally get annoyed when people tweet about other people's products on Twitter. I am on there to interact with people and hear about what THEY are doing.

Yes, I tweet about being a ghostwriter because it gets me clients. Yes, when I create a new blog post, I tweet about it. But that's me talking about what I'm doing.

I have to admit that I'm kind of surprised that you were successful with this approach.

Yeah, I noticed that.

I don't think there's anything wrong with reading someone else's product and saying you loved it and would recommend it. I don't see that as being the same as dozens of people coming on to Twitter, tweeting the exact same affiliate promotion link.

I think twitter in no time will have the same issues every other type of social medium has ever had, which is issues with commercial exploitation.

Because of that I'm sure twitter will have to either be proactive or reactive and figure out ways to curtail it the best way that they can which obviously will be in their best interest.

Frank Bruno

Hi Warriors,

I use twitter alot for giving out free information and links to my blog post etc, so when Joel Offered the Adsense 4.0 for FREE I reworded the Tweet and called him a ******* for doing so.

Anyway I use twitter across my blog, facebook and a couple other social sites that allow it to show followers/readers what I'm up to and what info I've gathered up.

I don't see your point?

Why would Joel spend all his time added people to follow?

I'm in the same boat (Except I don't claim to be a guru) I more people following me than I follow them.

Infact if I'm following you and you don't tweet for a month like Steve Jobs hasn't for a long time then I stop following you on twitter, same goes if you post too much crap which Joel is now border lining 6+ tweets a day and it's geting a little tired.

I can't see how it's egotistic or arrogant
Would you psyhically follow some who standing still doing nothing?
Would you follow someone who posting stuff that doesn't interest you?

How do expect people with large amount of followers to follow all of their followers? (wow say that out loud three times!)

Kevin Rose is another fine example he has 60k+ followers and he only follows approx 100 people.