Comments on: Twitter Suspensions Show Need For Social Redundancy

By: vpshosting

vpshosting — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:13:01 +0000

Excellent post. I think this post will definitely helpful for the newbies like me. I really appreciate it! Looking forward to reading your next post…

By: Andy Loverock

Andy Loverock — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:10:01 +0000

There are several things that I like about you Dave, but what stands out is the genuine nature that is conveyed by what you write. ‘value first and self promotion second’ This post is a good example and raises some very useful points. It’s sound advice to recommend building your network with security in mind but I also think people should be able to build their networks however they choose as long as they are not spamming.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:30:53 +0000

Wouldn’t it be better if twitter targeted the right people? You know the ones… they spam practically daily!! It’s annoying enough and just knowing that all their after is to build as many followers as they can in at least amount of time can get you all fired up!!! Again, if twitter just targeted these people I think it’d be a great way of controlling the membership don’t you think?

By: Steve Sherron

Steve Sherron — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:58:46 +0000

I run a local community web site, It would be great if I could set parameters such as geographic limits on those who follow me. I don’t want a housewife on the other side of the country who sells homemade necklaces to follow me. We both waste our time.

If Twitter were like eHarmony it would only match up people who had something in common. It would be great if you had to fill out a questionnaire to join Twitter.

3 months ago, I was very high on Twitter. Now, I have cut back my usage by 90% and started unfollowing people. If I get it down to 25 people and we like each other that will be fine. Too many people think it’s the ultimate sales tool and those people will fail.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:27:50 +0000

I think that Twitter needs to crack down on the following everyone to get more followers. You can’t honestly keep up with that many people, and it defeats the entire purpose of Twitter.

Cheers

By: Noel

Noel — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:40:25 +0000

It’s Twitter now and when that’s cleaned up and all the IM’s have been hyped onto the next big social site it all starts again. And the Internet band wagon rolls on and on.

By: Bill McIntosh

Bill McIntosh — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:59:50 +0000

I think the spam problem has more to do with the context of the messages people are posting to Twitter rather than how many people you follow. As far as I’m concerned… who cares how many people you follow and unfollow. It’s what you send out to your followers is what counts!

By: Don Forrester

Don Forrester — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:24:07 +0000

“Why does it matter if somebody follows you?” You mean, if a spammer follows me? or 2? Or 10 a day?

Because it denies me a useful tool: email alerts. If someone follows me, I get an alert, I check them out, and if they’re interesting people I say hello. Start a dialog. Yay Twitter! If, however, 70% and climbing of those ‘follower’ alerts lead me to spam pages or uber-marketers with 10k+ following/followers list, then my time and attention to my Twitter inbox has now gone from being a good thing to being a bad decision on my part.

‘protecting’ my account is declaring defeat. I.e., if I prevent people I don’t know from following me or seeing my updates, then I may as well go back to IM. If my random comments about Adobe, for example, were hidden, then I wouldn’t get their attention. I have 2 accounts; my own, and I also recently began to manage the online marketing for a product – look hard enough and you’ll find which one, that’s not the point here – and I use twitter to hear about product recommendations from our customers, as well as complaints and just fun wierdness I see all the time. If your advice to all those average, non-marketer people is to lock their accounts, then I would never see their posts and everyone would lose.

On the other hand, if I don’t lock my account, your advice seems to be to just grin and bear the mounting assault on my follow alerts (99% of whom unfollow when I don’t follow them, which also seems a perversion of the system. You don’t follow someone to get their attention, you follow them because they have yours!) Well, fine for you. But I for one cheer Twitter taking out the worst of the folks I consider abusive.

By: Bryan Bliss

Bryan Bliss — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:46:51 +0000

People should go further than just not following but also actually BLOCK the twitter spammers who seem more interested in spamming and “autopilot cash programs”
the blocks do actually add up and accounts do get investigated for spam when they raise enough red flags through blocks.

I’m a marketing consultant. I love good marketing but I disagree with the impulse to take the social out of social media.
thanks and take care
Bryan

By: Mike CJ

Mike CJ — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:42:11 +0000

Don, I don’t know how you can look “askance” at anyone with more than 200 followers, given that at any moment in time, less than 10% of your followers are going to be online and looking at Twitter. That’s instant messaging, not mass communication, and that wasn’t what Twitter was designed to be.
For what it’s worth, I get equally frustrated when I click the links that take me to some lame sales page, but all I do is click off again and I don’t then follow those people.
As David says, we have the tools to make what we want of Twitter, and I for one hope people baying for rules and regulation aren’t heeded.