Thanks for sharing that with us Anna. It's something I had only recently done myself (auto unfollowing those who don't follow me), so it's good to know.

Daniel

I've been telling people this for awhile now.

Finally, no more twits on twitter

Seriously, come on, basic business principles. Provide great quality service that provides great value (that people want/need) at a great price, you cannot fail with this principle.

Or you could try the equivalent of walking up and down the street shoving flyers in everyone's faces HOPING they buy something???

Whether or not you've been doing this... or agree with it or not... it's better to be informed that suddenly find your account suspended without a clue about why.

Yes, it looks like Twitter is finally going public with what it's already been doing.

Great information thanks for sharing. I am not using that method, so all should be good on the home front for me.


Shannon

Great info - thanks Anna!
funny but - I am now following RWW on twitter - very good blog they have with heaps of good info - Kymmy

Great to hear. Now if they can have it that you cannot send out new stories (every hour on the hour).

Twitter was used 99% for spamming. So no surprise here

Damn, now I have to go out and make real friends

Igor

i have to be honest that i am also really only on twitter to do business.
worse, i like the way it is a sort of live classified.
i do know that a lot of the guys that i originally made friends with in my early days unfollowed me as soon as i started to tweet business.
now here is what i think that twitter should do.
1. i think they should not allow links to be posted. by doing this it would force people that really have an interest in that persons "links", to the website, and then go from there.
or
2. perhaps twitter should have some sort of charge that would then allow that person to tweet that specific link, but he would have paid to tweet it for 30 days or something.
3. maybe have a split system where if you want to tweet links then you are on another timeline.

i personally have made a decision to stop sending links, and only talk about the product or related stuff. if the person reading my tweets then have a vague interest in my product, then they will have to come to my website via my profile.
hopefully this will not only save me from being banned, but also keep my tweeting a happy and plesant experience.
i do agree that sometimes i can wait 5 minutes before i even see a real person tweeting. those of you sending all those same-old-same-old should start to use your noggin a bit

I use a program to go and manually unfollow all the people who dont follow me,and also to follow the people that I have not decided to follow yet.

Do you follow??? LOL

Is that allowed? I was trying to get over the 2000 following limit.

I have built up to around 2000 following me and I am following around 2000 all manually,I am scared of using tools incase I got suspended or something.

But if their are any tools you suggest I use then please suggest them.

cheers

Marcus

All the more reason why you should not use many of those "Auto Follow/NoFollow" sites. Automation has it's place and there are many times when human interaction should be involved.

It is a social site and called that for a reason.... If I follow or unfollow someone it is done manually by my own hands. If I send a DM then it is done manually by my own hands. Many times I will remove someone for sending those "fake auto dm's" because the fact is if you can not take 30 sec to send me a personal message then do not bother to send me a message at all...

James

I'm glad Twitter have finally got their act together on this. There are a number of people who have been using the site like a machine gun in a crowded room, thank god they'll be soon be sorted!

Why not take the time and send me a personal message instead of an auto DM ??? Every single DM I have sent has always been personally typed and sent by myself and not some auto system using the API...

James

Great post!

I dont actually auto follow though as there is way too many spammers around that i wouldnt want associated with me. Secondly there is way too many porn related that again would look bad for me. So please dont do it - spend an extra 10 minutes a day on your twitter account keeping the quality going it is like just having dodgy email addresses on your mailing list.

Treat your followers like your second mailing list and it will make you money!

sam
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I actually think automation is great PROVIDED you use it to add value. I hate spam but if there's a way to automate good tweets on good relevant content to your niche, that's the way to go in my opinion.
I tried it and my followers absolutely LOVE it. 1,000 followers a week, every week, to be precise. I'm actually providing value for them, I just don't sit by the keyboard for hours on end doing so.

I usually just delete these auto DMs without reading them- usually they are either "Thanks for the follow" or some affiliate link.

I also feel put off and don't tend to follow when I visit someone's Twitter page and the whole page is full of Tweets from the last 10 minutes and there are multiple pages of Tweets just from that day alone. It is like some people have nothing else to do all day except continually live every minute of their life through Twitter

Cheers,
Suzanne

That's not even an effective way to connect with the people. People who do it end up whith thousands of followers and flood of tweet spam. Those who auto follow you most likely auto follow thousands of others as well and are in the same situation. Therefore, your link will rarely get clicked