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Will Somebody Please Spread the Word That Twitter Is Not For This

by jamawebinc
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Will somebody please spread the word that twitter is not for total strangers to just post link after link after link of products that you hope I will, for some reason, click on?

It was meant for micro blogging...not micro spamming.

And, those automatic direct messages that are automatically sent to me when I follow you...Do you really think you are fooling anyone into thinking you wrote me a personal message?

Especially when it ends with something like...to really start making some profits goto bud.rul/dgtfhr
#spread #twitter #word
  • Profile picture of the author money2k
    I agree 100%. Twitter has become a spammers paradise. A lot of marketers are having great success, buth you do get some who just send out message after message. Comes with the territory...
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  • Profile picture of the author TelegramSam
    Most people are always looking for an easy buck or the magic pill. Spamming twitter is just another example.

    Anything to avoid real work.

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    • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
      Originally Posted by TelegramSam View Post

      Most people are always looking for an easy buck or the magic pill. Spamming twitter is just another example.

      Anything to avoid real work.

      Sam
      And a few find it, twittered or twitless.

      Four hours a day five months of the year.

      I am addicted
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  • Profile picture of the author DogScout
    would somebody tell people to stop clicking those spam links and buying the products being spammed?

    otherwise it will never stop

    It is usually not the marketers that just do spammy stuff, it is because people respond to spammy stuff that the marketers do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    The funny thing is some very big names are doing what you say is wrong. I don't use twitter, I just signed up to see what it was all about and everyone on my email list I suddenly "followed" and many of them followed me. I still don't understand what twitter is all about, but I do know I get tons of the kind of messages you are calling "spam."

    Thanks for the heads up on this.

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    • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
      Can't you unfollow the person? That's what I did with someone like that. Then you don't see their tweets in your list anymore.

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    • Profile picture of the author Ram
      Let Twitter police itself. If TPTB at Twitter don't like it, they canstart shutting down accounts. If they don't then whatever happens serves them right.

      You don't base your biz model on USER generated content and not expect marketers to go wild. You have to keep an eye on that stuff.

      BTW- it ain't spam. You CHOSE to follow those people. Unfollow if YOU made a bad choice.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasondinner
    Yeah, i just Tweeted about this asking people if anyone actually reads their DM's anymore because of the spam that overtook that part of twitter.

    I certainly don't.

    I actually don't use any automated tools for twitter. Call me a Purist
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  • Profile picture of the author Colin Palfrey
    Yes you get spam on twitter - WOW!!

    Twitter is the kingdom of spam, and if their true figures minus the bots was actually shown, you would find it is pretty deserted.

    You cannot communicate anything meaningful, in any way in a sentence or less.

    If they expanded the tweet character count to 500 characters it would be a whole new game. As it is, its for link dropping.

    I spam the hell out of twitter because I don't expect anyone to read it, but rather because I get lots of back links.

    Before anyone says twitter is "nofollow" don't forget there are thousands of sites that display tweets mentioning certain keywords and they aren't "nofollow"

    Just saying LOL

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    • Profile picture of the author jasondinner
      Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey View Post

      I spam the hell out of twitter because I don't expect anyone to read it, but rather because I get lots of back links.

      Before anyone says twitter is "nofollow" don't forget there are thousands of sites that display tweets mentioning certain keywords and they aren't "nofollow"

      Just saying LOL

      Regards,
      Colin
      I have seen tweets in other niches I am in that have ranked on the first page of Google for their keyword.

      So twitter does have some clout with the search engines. (well at least with Google)

      Was an obscure niche.
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      • Profile picture of the author grayambition
        Originally Posted by jasondinner View Post

        I have seen tweets in other niches I am in that have ranked on the first page of Google for their keyword.
        My twitter account is #2 for my offline biz. It pushed my main site, which has been around for 6 years, to #4.

        So yeah, I think there's potential benefit, but definitely not the way most people are using it.
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    • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
      Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey View Post

      Twitter is the kingdom of spam, and if their true figures minus the bots was actually shown, you would find it is pretty deserted.
      No. I know people who use it as it was intended.

      I also know of famous people using it correctly to promote themselves. Look at UKs Coach for an example.

      Or how Selena Gomez used it to have a meet and greet w/ fans by giving clues to the location.

      You cannot communicate anything meaningful, in any way in a sentence or less.
      Really? You just did.

      It could also be used to tell a group of friends that dinner is at 8 instead of 7 or what movie to meet at.

      See, if used correctly it is great. You know if you have FRIENDS and forward it to your cell.

      I spam the hell out of twitter because I don't expect anyone to read it, but rather because I get lots of back links.
      No. You do because you're a worthless spammer that tries to call himself a marketer.

      Just sayin.

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    • Profile picture of the author paulie888
      Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey View Post

      Yes you get spam on twitter - WOW!!

      Twitter is the kingdom of spam, and if their true figures minus the bots was actually shown, you would find it is pretty deserted.

      You cannot communicate anything meaningful, in any way in a sentence or less.

      If they expanded the tweet character count to 500 characters it would be a whole new game. As it is, its for link dropping.

      I spam the hell out of twitter because I don't expect anyone to read it, but rather because I get lots of back links.

      Before anyone says twitter is "nofollow" don't forget there are thousands of sites that display tweets mentioning certain keywords and they aren't "nofollow"

      Just saying LOL

      Regards,
      Colin
      I'd agree with you that Twitter has become more valuable as a source of backlinks than for product promotion, especially if you're in the IM field...LOL.

      It's devolved into spam central, especially if you're in the IM space, as everyone and his brother is using some kind of Twitter tool to follow others and send out automated spam, and I truly think the majority of people in this niche don't bother to read their Twitter streams and DMs anymore!
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by paulie888 View Post

        I'd agree with you that Twitter has become more valuable as a source of backlinks than for product promotion, especially if you're in the IM field...LOL.

        It's devolved into spam central, especially if you're in the IM space, as everyone and his brother is using some kind of Twitter tool to follow others and send out automated spam, and I truly think the majority of people in this niche don't bother to read their Twitter streams and DMs anymore!
        You'd be surprised once you get rid of the Twitter spammers you're following and just follow people who interest you or blogs that interest you that the spam disappears magically.

        Internet Marketers spam Twitter. I never use automation to follow people anymore after all the work of unfollowing them manually. I never thought that I would enjoy Twitter because all I saw was the spam.

        Now I read Twitter for a bit every night. There's quite a few blogs that covers news that isn't in the mainstream media that is very interesting for a news junkie like myself.
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        • Profile picture of the author paulie888
          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

          You'd be surprised once you get rid of the Twitter spammers you're following and just follow people who interest you or blogs that interest you that the spam disappears magically.

          Internet Marketers spam Twitter. I never use automation to follow people anymore after all the work of unfollowing them manually. I never thought that I would enjoy Twitter because all I saw was the spam.

          Now I read Twitter for a bit every night. There's quite a few blogs that covers news that isn't in the mainstream media that is very interesting for a news junkie like myself.
          True, for news and networking purposes especially, Twitter can be a fun and productive tool.

          As long as you stay away from the IM niche, Twitter can be quite entertaining and informative. I feel that who you follow is the real key to determining how good an experience you have on there.
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  • Profile picture of the author soniia21
    I never check the DM's, I think I have like 800 now that are just there!
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
    Here is an article I wrote up about this not long ago actually... Twitter tips, will you apply them? Do you know what your doing wrong with twitter?

    You can read it and tell me what you think, that's just my two cents for what it's worth...
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  • Profile picture of the author Mohammad Afaq
    Twitter has been spoiled by spammers but still I like it.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    While you are at it you could tell all those that have that twitter software to help you spam and all those that have those ebooks and video junk products that tell you to spam, to stop selling their stuff ....

    Twitter is a spam fest, yep ... it is because that is what most wannabe marketers understand to be marketing. When something hot comes out marketers go running to see how much they can do SpaMarketing on the site and then create ebooks and software to sell to tell everyone else how to do SpaMarketing...

    To some it is useful while others it is useless... If you do not like the spam then start un-following people and block them, its that simple...

    I do not follow anyone without a real name anymore and I do not read DM's at all nor do I send DM's..

    James

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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    Hi guys

    i remember a year ago i was crazy for twitter but with all the time i spend with blocking spammers it has totally lost its spark.

    I have a higher than average following which means spammers target me a lot more than everyone else because they believe using my username will suddenly get them a lot more sales!!!

    However i have found that the list feature on twitter is an amazing tool as it means that all the people you love chatting to on twitter you can put together in one place and the spammers cant get in!!!

    kind regards


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  • Profile picture of the author Colin Palfrey
    I thought the idea was to make money from marketing. My mistake, I now realize the idea is to spend days slowly talking people into each sale over a period of days.

    One sentence at a time.

    Seems like a slow marketing plan to me....but whatever works for you.

    Its funny how I am apparently the only person spamming twitter, as last time I looked on there, there was huge amount of obvious spam....not just from me.

    Go check the tweets from some of the "holier than thee" above me.

    Hypocrisy at its finest.

    Just sayin!!
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Parkin
      Yeh its just you dude - you killed Twitter

      Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey View Post

      I thought the idea was to make money from marketing. My mistake, I now realize the idea is to spend days slowly talking people into each sale over a period of days.

      One sentence at a time.

      Seems like a slow marketing plan to me....but whatever works for you.

      Its funny how I am apparently the only person spamming twitter, as last time I looked on there, there was huge amount of obvious spam....not just from me.

      Go check the tweets from some of the "holier than thee" above me.

      Hypocrisy at its finest.

      Just sayin!!
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    • Profile picture of the author mikereisinger
      Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey View Post

      I thought the idea was to make money from marketing. My mistake, I now realize the idea is to spend days slowly talking people into each sale over a period of days.

      One sentence at a time.

      Seems like a slow marketing plan to me....but whatever works for you.

      Its funny how I am apparently the only person spamming twitter, as last time I looked on there, there was huge amount of obvious spam....not just from me.

      Go check the tweets from some of the "holier than thee" above me.

      Hypocrisy at its finest.

      Just sayin!!

      Hey I will admit that I gave spamming the $hit out of Twitter a try. I got a few backlinks and about 14K hops to Clickbank. ZERO sales lol. Could probably take the time to optimize and do it better, but I'd rather use other methods.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheNightOwl
    Hey, sure, jamawebinc, I'll just set up a, um, series of automated tweets about it right now. Y'know the kind that get repeated by my bot at various times throughout the day in case you missed them the first 17 times.

    Then I might just get my other bot to autofollow about 500 people per day and I'll tweet them, too, just to tell them that Twitter isn't for doing the kind of thing you're talking about. Swines! Maybe I could slip in a tiny-url to, uh, Vince James' latest no-doubt-totally-above-board "How-I-made-$77million-in-a-year" promo. Ya think anyone would notice?

    Then if all those folks don't follow me back, I'll, uh, come back and post here asking how to mass unfollow. And then I'll, uh, send the bot off to do it again with 500 new people the next day.

    Heck, I might even write a WSO about "Twitter Crusher Cash Domination Slayer Sniping," say. Whaddayathink? I reckon it'd sell great guns.


    Does this help the cause any?
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    • Profile picture of the author Martin Luxton
      Colin,

      If they followed you, then you are not spamming the hell out of them - you are marketing the hell out of them.

      If you choose to use Twitter that way and Twitter lets you do it, then why not? I wouldn't do that, but I'm not in your shoes. In fact, I have pretty much abandoned my old Twitter account to start afresh just with people I know, and a few interesting-looking people with common interests.

      On Facebook, I deleted all my marketer "friends" a while back and now I enjoy just using it to interact with friends and family.

      For anybody considering Twitter marketing I would recommend a family-and-friends-only account and a separate account for marketing.

      (Yeah, I know, some Twitxperts are thinking, "Only two accounts? You need at least 2,000 to make real money!!").

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  • Profile picture of the author Nick Brighton
    you can't be spammed if you are choosing to receive content from these people. Simple solution = unfollow.
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    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      its a thin line, twitter was not put up so you can post loads of links, it was supposed to be like facebook, to keep in touch with people, etc.

      wont be long though before the foot is put down on all of this and it'll be ruined for everyone.

      it would not surprise me that if they have a problem with the complaints about people who have had their account suspended, that twitter will start to use a filter process based on how many tweets you do and how many of those have links in them, if the tweets with links in them surpass the amount that do not, they wont get posted at all.

      Originally Posted by Nick Brighton View Post

      you can't be spammed if you are choosing to receive content from these people. Simple solution = unfollow.
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  • Profile picture of the author Heidi White
    You guys are all missing the boat - PHITTER.com (a gift from Kirstie Alley) - weight (pun) until her TV show goes live!

    My first post ranked number 2 for a keyword back when it first started. Similar to Twitter but also not. Strong community, not for careless spamming.

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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    dont worry about it, their account will get banned any way cos it's apart of the twitter tos

    Originally Posted by jamawebinc View Post

    Will somebody please spread the word that twitter is not for total strangers to just post link after link after link of products that you hope I will, for some reason, click on?

    It was meant for micro blogging...not micro spamming.

    And, those automatic direct messages that are automatically sent to me when I follow you...Do you really think you are fooling anyone into thinking you wrote me a personal message?

    Especially when it ends with something like...to really start making some profits goto bud.rul/dgtfhr
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  • Profile picture of the author Pacman131
    Well I bet they are getting a few idiots. If there are always idiots, there will always be deceivers.

    Everyones been an idiot once or twice in there life, we can't help it no ones perfect.

    So these spammers will keep doing it as long as they are making a few bucks here and there.

    Originally Posted by jamawebinc View Post

    Will somebody please spread the word that twitter is not for total strangers to just post link after link after link of products that you hope I will, for some reason, click on?

    It was meant for micro blogging...not micro spamming.

    And, those automatic direct messages that are automatically sent to me when I follow you...Do you really think you are fooling anyone into thinking you wrote me a personal message?

    Especially when it ends with something like...to really start making some profits goto bud.rul/dgtfhr
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Wired magazine ran a story a few months ago about a guy who wanted to see if he could just drop off the grid, or if people could use the Internet to track him down.

      One of the things he did was create a Twitter account and use it to join the group using Twitter to communicate and coordinate their efforts to track the writer down. He made the account look "real" by following a few hundred marketers, so his account always had a steady stream of new links and tweets.

      I check my Twitter account once in a while, but the stream is almost always the same - an automated progression of affiliate links, promos for "how to make money on Twitter" products and "inspirational" quotes to try and fool the spam police.

      Bo-ring...
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      • Profile picture of the author socialmediawarrior
        When you receive spam tweets, note that you chose to follow them. Twitter is just like any other medium for communication and marketing with a combination of info, news, ads, spam, etc. Even online websites, emails, and all of the social networks are composed of all of these elements. The issue with Twitter right now is that it has a lot of noise compared to other media. Simply unfollow the spammers just as you would unsubscribe to someone's email subscription.

        I am sure Twitter is working on this problem and will figure out ways of containing spam within their network in the same way that Google has dealt with spammy websites. If you read their TOS carefully, you will see some hints on their progress on all this.
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  • Profile picture of the author lizashaw
    I only post links to my blog to articles that I have written on twitter, never link direct to a product, (well maybe one or two if i wanna recommend a good book on amazon) does that count as spamming too?
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Originally Posted by jamawebinc View Post

    Will somebody please spread the word that twitter is not for total strangers to just post link after link after link of products that you hope I will, for some reason, click on?

    It was meant for micro blogging...not micro spamming.

    And, those automatic direct messages that are automatically sent to me when I follow you...Do you really think you are fooling anyone into thinking you wrote me a personal message?

    Especially when it ends with something like...to really start making some profits goto bud.rul/dgtfhr
    unfollow. Works wonders if you actually want to enjoy Twitter for what it was meant to be. I unfollowed everyone and then started following a handful of interesting people and now I love to read Twitter.
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  • Profile picture of the author sdentrepreneur
    I love Twitter, I provide fun good content, a few Foursquare check in's and repost other peoples content. The way I monetize my 60,000+ followers is by driving them to a Video, Article or Blog I created. People don't jump on Twitter or Facebook to buy anything. They are looking for information and wanting to have real time updates on news and friends.
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    • Profile picture of the author MichaelHiles
      Originally Posted by sdentrepreneur View Post

      I love Twitter, I provide fun good content, a few Foursquare check in's and repost other peoples content. The way I monetize my 60,000+ followers is by driving them to a Video, Article or Blog I created. People don't jump on Twitter or Facebook to buy anything. They are looking for information and wanting to have real time updates on news and friends.
      Bingo... the one-dimensional, "in your face" promotional selling tactic simply doesn't work with social media.

      People are wise to it, and can ignore it (and do).

      Savvy marketers realize this and build better systems.
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  • Profile picture of the author Colin Palfrey
    Classic....
    Don't you just hate it when you read something that was obviously written by a complete tool...then realize it was something you wrote yourself in the past lol
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    • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
      Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey View Post

      Classic....
      Don't you just hate it when you read something that was obviously written by a complete tool...then realize it was something you wrote yourself in the past lol
      I started looking at the poster before I read the comments because of that. This way, when I see my name, my brain goes in the "gotta be right mode"
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  • Profile picture of the author H.Miller
    Most people have no clue how to use twitter or any other social media platform. They just spam, spam, spam thinking they will get a ton of traffic. All social media tools should be used to build relationships. That's how you make sales. People buy from those they know and trust. By throwing out a bunch a spam links you will never see any long term success.
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  • Profile picture of the author gskesavan
    I dont use automated program. I like twitter not because it is for marketing alone. It's fun to blurt out anything to your list. The reach is pretty amazing and you get the maximum exposure ever for a 50 word text.
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  • Profile picture of the author Easy Marketer
    It's hard to get a reply from posts but I have fairly proven I get clicks to my articles on my blog. So it is doing something for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Claire Sharp
    The best thing you can do is to unfollow that person to stop receiving spam messages. Sometimes (not just sometimes), it is annoying. And I think everyone here agree with me.
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    • Profile picture of the author dbarnum
      Not only forget about following them, send them a direct message and tell them once they stop spamming, you'd be happy to follow them.

      I've sent messages to people wearing practically nothing and cursing, saying if they clean up their account, I'd be happy to give them a change again. And some do clean it up.

      So you never know....maybe you could make an impact and positive difference at Twitter
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