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Twitter auto welcome messages losing their effectiveness

by Zachary R. Skinner
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howdy warriors!

So lately the auto welcome messages ive been sending out across my different twitter accounts are getting less and less of a response.

I guess this isn't too surprising considering that just about everyone and their brother is sending out welcome messages these days.

My first question is this: are welcome messages even worth sending out on twitter anymore if everyone else is doing it?

Second, if welcome messages are worth doing, what kinds of messages are getting people's attention and actually getting people to click on links?



Would love to hear people's thoughts on this
#auto #effectiveness #losing #messages #twitter
  • Profile picture of the author Marty S
    Nobody who has any kind of purpose reads them. Stop doing it because there is no upside. It is Spatter.
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    I have never sent one and I have never read one.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zachary R. Skinner
    Of course, if welcome messages really are just a total waste of time, then why do the big name types insist on sending them??

    Perhaps they are just stubborn?
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Gram
    I don't send them or read them. 99% of my DM's are automated messages and you can always tell when it's automated. One thing it does though is really makes the legitimate, non automated DM's stick out like a sore thumb and I always reply to those.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    I rarely, rarely ever look through DMs anymore. Too many people doing automated messages has made the DM system largely useless on Twitter.
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  • Profile picture of the author jayanuaria
    DMs are dead. Based on my experience, most messages in DMs are spam so you have very small chance that your message will be read.

    But the @mention or @replies really works for me.
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    I've never read them past the first batch of 50. I only wish Twitter would allow blocking them altogether. Nothing but a bunch of crap spammers.
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    • Profile picture of the author Zachary R. Skinner
      As an experiment, yesterday I followed a bunch of people on one of my accounts and I changed the DM from a welcome message to a "check out this crazy video" on my blog message.

      The response thus far has been MUCH better than my conventional messages

      I'll keep testing and report back periodically
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  • Profile picture of the author GaryG197
    I would be interested to see if anyone had a study or publication of the effectiveness of automatic welcome messages over time. At this point I feel as though too many people use welcome messages as spam so the ones that don't spam and are just using the automatic welcome as an ice breaker to make a new connection are automatically thought of as spam! At this point the only thing I can recommend is a customized Twitter mention or direct response catered at the specific user.
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