Social Media
Top 10 Signs You ARE Worth Following On Twitter
It was suggested by a few of my readers that I do a counterpart to my post on the Top 10 Signs You’re Not Worth Following on Twitter. It seems it is only fair. After all, I’ve done enough complaining. 
So, without further ado, why would I follow you on Twitter?
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Stupidest DMs From The Last Month on Twitter
As you can probably tell if you follow me on Twitter, I’m on a rampage about Twitter spam. Right now, I’m rather fed up with it.
Today, I thought I would highlight some of the lamest DMs I have gotten in the last 30 days on Twitter. I have removed the links so as not to give them any free promotion on my blog.
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Top 10 Signs You’re Not Worth Following on Twitter
Since I stopped auto-following people on Twitter, I’ve really been trying to weed out all the spammers from my follow list.
I’m still pondering whether I should do a big mass-unfollow and then re-build my list. I still might do so. I was ready to do it on Friday, but then Twitter got hit with that big DDOS attack and I couldn’t pull it off.
As I (at this point) gradually remove people from my follow list, I am beginning to arrive at common traits that I personally find either annoying or classic signs of a spammer. I thought I’d share.
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I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]
We all know that Twitter is an awesome social networking platform. The one-to-many communication, the ease of tweeting from anywhere – it is cool and the growth rate proves it.
However, that growth rate has been so high that there are negative side effects. Spam, for one. But, when you couple the tweet spam with the ego-centric need to have high follower counts, Twitter itself starts to lose it’s usefulness.
For this reason, I have completely done a reverse course on my approach to Twitter.
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Are Marketers Ruining Twitter?
There has absolutely been a rapid increase in spam on Twitter lately.
It was a problem beforehand. But, then some celebrities brought more attention to Twitter and, all of a sudden, the rest of the world is catching onto Twitter. And where the people are, marketers follow.
Is it a bad thing? What should be done about it?
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Twitter Suspensions Show Need For Social Redundancy
It might go without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway: You don’t actually own your social media profiles. So, don’t depend on them.
Last week, a couple of friends of mine got suspended on Twitter. Neither one of them did anything shady in the slightest. My guess is that Twitter will eventually reinstate their accounts and that this was a result of fitting some kind of broad pattern.
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The Social Media Give-and-Take
This is a guest post by Lisa Morosky, whom many of my readers probably know as my virtual assistant.
A few weeks ago, I spoke to some of the senior staff at a company where I used to work (I only work for myself and my clients nowadays, with much thanks to Dave for the push to follow my dreams!). The topic of my presentation was social media and how this particular company could effectively implement a strategy that would create online buzz, push website traffic, and further brand themselves as experts with a good reputation. Click Here To Continue Reading »
The Big Secret To Lots of Followers on Twitter Is…
Follow lots of people.
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Book Review: Twitter Revolution
When I was both in Las Vegas and here in Tampa recently, I had an opportunity to meet and talk to Warren Whitlock. Warren is an author and speaker. He is also a player in the social media space. He and Deborah Micek (also known as CoachDeb) cowrote Twitter Revolution. Warren sent me a copy to check out.
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The Case Against Auto-DM’s On Twitter
The Twitter footprint into our society has been growing like crazy. Celebrities and news organizations are now parading the word “Twitter” around as part of our normal lexicon. Of course, this means Twitter is a huge communication platform now…for everybody….not just for the early adopters.
I'm David Risley. I've been making my living as a blogger for over a decade. Blogging is my business and how I support my family. With this blog, I'm just gettin' REAL and telling you how this business works. 
