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Who said Twitter couldn’t be spammed?

excerpt Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to spam Twitter… erm, I mean “get traffic to your Squidoo lens”. Because wasting other people’s time is useful. Wankers. ...

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    floydbogart 1 month ago with 1 point

    An interesting perspective, but frankly (as the Wanker that wrote the lens) I've gotten a lot of positive feedback from my Twitter buddies on each of my profiles saying that they appreciated my Twits! Those that feel they don't like the nature of my "Twits" can and do opt to stop following me, but that really happens quite infrequently...

    Can't even say though that I was the one that came up with this. It is often called "MicroBlogging" and one version or another of this method is taught in quite a few YouTube vids.

    But thanks for the PR for my lens, as it's gotten me quite a few hits, and several clickouts as well. You know what they say: "There's no such thing as bad publicity!"

    Floyd Bogart
    Floyd's Social Marketing Blog

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    ianbetteridge 1 month ago with 1 point

    Floyd, just because it's taught on YouTube doesn't make it right, and just because the content you produce has value doesn't mean that teaching people to spam is valuable. What's more, the idea that there's no such thing as bad publicity isn't true: ask Gerald Ratner (Google him if you're not familiar with the story).

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    floydbogart 1 month ago with 1 point

    Can't see how this can be qualified as Spamming anything, as every single person that gets my updates has "Opted-In" by clicking that they choose to "Follow" me.

    Likewise, they may "Opt-Out" at any time with a click of the "Remove" button.

    This is the simple action that I have taken anytime I have found the content of another Twitterer objectionable in any way. I would agree that I was spamming if every Twitter member had no choice but to either be exposed to my posts, or leave the service, as would be the case in a forum. Here I gotta say that I disagree.

    Floyd Bogart
    Floyd's Blog

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    ianbetteridge 1 month ago with 1 point

    The spam element is in mass-friending people purely to get them to friend you back. Getting 20+ emails from Twitter telling me that "VIAGRA4FREE" has friended me is irritating. I don't know these people. They aren't friending me because they give a damn about what I have to say. What they - and you - want is a one-way broadcast of your links. There's no interest in friending me for any other purpose than getting my attention, and frankly it's irritating - and, as the number of people doing it (encouraged by you) increases, it becomes more irritating and makes Twitter less valuable.

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    floydbogart 1 month ago with 1 point

    Which would be a valid point except that I do interact with those people that I have "Mass Friended" and I do visit their sites and respond to their comments.

    The fact that I wish to be exposed to a larger Twitter community within a niche doesn't make my view or use of Twitter less valuable than yours. I can and do choose not to follow individuals, and many can and do choose to limit their Twitter experience by making their posts private.

    This is all just MHO of course, and you are free to yours as well.

    I just don't see how you are adversely affected unless you choose to be....

    This will be my last post on the matter.

    Floyd Bogart
    The Offending Lens

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    ianbetteridge 1 month ago with 1 point

    Floyd, in your article - which is baldly and plainly all about using Twitter as a traffic generator - there is nothing about interaction. Let's not beat around the bush here. Your article is about traffic generation.

    And making my posts private would not stop me getting 20 emails a day requesting my attention from people I not only don't know, but who aren't actually interested in what I Twitter.

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