Comments on: In trouble on twitter

By: Twitter made me sick — TUI's Voice

Twitter made me sick — TUI's Voice — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:41:47 +0000

[...] I used Twitter started to change the day I found myself in trouble as I started to think more consciously about twitter spam, follower ego and how much noise there [...]

By: TUI

TUI — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:05:40 +0000

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Since posting this, @juhasaarinen and I have exchanged a few tweets. I said sorry and all’s cool.

He did point out one additional thing I hadn’t considered and that is #DM messages are meant to be for urgent communication and where the user has SMS #DM turned on, each of these would go instantly to their phone. Obviously a complete pain.

This post is getting alot of traffic from twitter, Thank you. If you like it how about “re-tweeting”, or sharing on one of your other sites like digg or stumbleupon so that we might get a few more people supporting the No Auto Follow idea.

Thanks again for your continued support x

By: cbemerine

cbemerine — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:27:57 +0000

I like many do not auto follow and I never auto send out any Direct Messages. Seems like many will un follow some if they get a direct message immediately when they follow someone.

I agree with you, I try to check out a person’s tweets before I follow, as the numbers grow, I can see why many just auto follow however.

By: Todd Smith

Todd Smith — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:35:54 +0000

I started using Twitter earnestly last November and I almost made the same mistake. I agree. Twitter, and social media in general is about building relationships and having fun with real people. It’s not a broadcast environment; it’s a conversation.

I don’t always follow people back quickly, but I still do it by hand, always trying to check out their site, make a comment, or ask a question. My only problem is that I have to limit my time on Twitter… ’cause the nicer you are, the more people keep following you! :)

By: angelique

angelique — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:56:27 +0000

This is great Stephen! The auto replies to my follows always kind of bugged me since the person never took the time to actually check out my stuff and if they did not follow me back, I was unable to DM them. It really does take something away from the Twitter experience.

Love reading your posts!