Social Media has gone to the dog’s…….
And the cat’s and the bears….
What?
The title has two meanings;
Yes I think we can all agree Social Media is ‘partly’ being ruined by spammers, marketers & gurus all climbing on top of each other to take some dollars from you.
How can we stop it?
One way, Don’t auto follow! Follow people not bots!
Don’t want to check all your followers everyday to see who to follow back? Ok try something else like Twollow set up a free account and follow back (automatically) people who talk to you or retweet you…
OK but the real point of this post if you want to be an expert in Social Media take some tips from Dogs, Cats and Bears!
Why?
Because these people who tweet as their Dogs and Cats and Bears and Racoons want nothing except to be friendly and chat with new people!
Viola REAL SOCIAL MEDIA….
Yes their updates may be silly and you may ridicule that Poofy the Wonder Dog is tweeting about how he got a nice juicy bone for dinner ;)
I’m not talking about the way they talk but WHY they talk.
Back to basics, Get real and Twitter can be a great place!
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- July 11th, 2009
- Posted in Social Media
Whenever I get a new follower on Twitter, I take time to see their updates before I even think about following back. What is really annoying me right now is the people who have;
1 update (Spam)
2 followers
342 following.
It’s a tell-tale sign of someone trying to make money out of twitter.
Nice post, we need to go back to basics.
Keith´s last blog ..Cya in 3 weeks ;)
You wrote:
“One way, Don’t auto follow! ”
And this seemed to be the thrust of your post. Yet in the very next paragraph you encourage pepole to auto follow and give a link to a service that will allow this.
Huh?!
Roger Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Hey Max
Don’t auto follow all the people who follow you just because they follow you, but you can use that tool to follow people based on keywords, I use it to follow people who talk to me as I don’t always have time to check out all new followers especially with the huge influx of spammers lately it seems like a 10 to 1 spammer to real ratio at the moment.
This tool gives a courtesy (auto) follow to anyone that engages you.
And no this wasn’t the thrust of the post the thrust of the post was ‘Get Social’ and interact which some people including myself had let slip away.
Thanks for taking the time to comment!
With Twitter follows I use Topify to screen out spammers and self promotionalists – new word :). But I also go through my stream every so often and click on avatars I don't recongise “noticing” for a while. See their latest 20 or so tweets and unfollow those that I don't find useful. Tweetie on the Mac so easy and quick to do that.
I find it disappointing when you follow someone in their (relatively) early Twitter times and then with some spammy sign ups they turn into follow-fiends, rather than giving value and wanting to interact.
I can follow around 250 people who are good tweeters, then the rest are either family and friends who aren't prolific or feeds etc. If I feel it's getting too much I go back and unfollow a few people to keep it manageable.
I love this – sometimes I wonder why I do this and then I remember – I LOVE PEOPLE! I LOVE HELPING and bringing people together. I want to stay away from people that use “AUTO-FOLLOW” scripts and sell me stuff with a DM. They seem to be the same “playground bullies” we all didnt like in grade school.
I love this – sometimes I wonder why I do this and then I remember – I LOVE PEOPLE! I LOVE HELPING and bringing people together. I want to stay away from people that use “AUTO-FOLLOW” scripts and sell me stuff with a DM. They seem to be the same “playground bullies” we all didnt like in grade school.