Comments on: Auto Replies Are Ruining The Direct Message System

By: How the Twitter system could be gamed with @Replies

How the Twitter system could be gamed with @Replies — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:24:34 +0000

[...] have spoke about users are using auto replies to thank people for following them through direct messages, which can make checking for real direct messages a pain. However, this is only a real problem if [...]

By: How Often Do You Check Your Direct Messages?

How Often Do You Check Your Direct Messages? — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:03:20 +0000

[...] AUTHOR : Kevin FILED UNDER: Twittering 21 May, 2009 // Last month I spoke about how Auto Replies Are Ruining The Direct Message System, something which I still believe. I rarely check my direct messages box because I get so many auto [...]

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:48:57 +0000

Yes I agree. At the moment I have the latest posts from my personal blog and from here posting on Twitter though I moved BloggingTips Updates to it’s own Twitter account.

I tried to do that for here too but someone has hijacked the domain (I’ve complained but Twitter never answer help queries!)

I have to agree with you though. There is way too much self promotion on Twitter. For some people, that’s all it is. How many times have you checked someones profile and saw every tweet had a link to some procut they were pushing.

By: Patti Stafford

Patti Stafford — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:52:08 +0000

I don’t like the spammy nature of Twitter, which is part of the reason I don’t promote myself too often. In my opinion, if I promote others instead of myself, it’s looked upon as sharing and I feel better about it.

One thing I have discovered is that maybe direct messages are very useful in keeping some things from Google. I’m just amazed at how quickly Google picks up your Twitter activity. Things I said Sunday are already in Google under my name, and who I replied to.

I realize part of Twitter’s purpose is self promotion, but I think people go overboard. It’s a social network, which to me means, being social. If you went to a party to socialize and all you spoke of was your new venture, your book, your website, your product–how many people at the party are going to want to speak to you? More than likely they’ll go find someone else at the party who is actually fun and lively and I try to use Twitter in that way.

Some of my blogs are set to automatically notify Twitter when I post, but that’s generally the only time I use Twitter for myself. It’s a happy medium for me and I wish a few others would discover that same happy medium for themselves.

Kristen had a very good post on BloggingTips and her welcome video is really nice. She did an excellent job and has a very lovely personality. Maybe she’ll do a video on Twitter etiquette.