Comments on: Effective Immediately- No More Auto-Follow

By: Cosmedic Dentistry San Diego

Cosmedic Dentistry San Diego — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:03:28 +0000

I don't blame you making this decision. For one the auto DM levels are crazy and secondly once your Twitter account gets above the 50K level it is hard to keep up with the daily followers that follow you.

Wendy

By: Twitter Adder

Twitter Adder — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:48:59 +0000

If you can get more twitter followers, then you will be in a very good position to use the twitter marketing to get more buyers. By having more followers, you will be able to have a multiplied effect of your marketing efforts. More and more people will be seeing your updates.

By: Mariano

Mariano — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:05:44 +0000

Thanks for posting this Chris. I actually found it because I got a DM from someone this morning about “fun140.com” and I decided to look it up before I followed the link. Thank goodness I did, and thanks for writing about it!

By: Mariano

Mariano — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:05:44 +0000

By: AdNectar Brings its Branded Virtual Goods to Twitter and LiveJournal

AdNectar Brings its Branded Virtual Goods to Twitter and LiveJournal — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:01:26 +0000

[...] that Twitter users have found this action spammy. For more, see what social media consultant Chris Brogan had to say about it earlier this summer. Note: I don’t currently see any of these gifts live, [...]

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:08:21 +0000

I know! I get SO many messages in my DM box and with no bulk delete it's so annoying. I found this tool that lets me bulk delete though and it made such a difference. The only down side is you have to use it in FireFox.

Anyway, it may come in handy if you get too many messages in your DM box and don't have the time to manually delete them. It's called DM Whacker and you can get it here: http://dcortesi.com/tools/dm-deleter/

Hope that helps.

By: Mariela Castro

Mariela Castro — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:56:16 +0000

The Twitter etiquette established that you should follow back who is following you. I don´t agree at all. We should follow people with whom we can establish significant relationships and/or with whom we can learn and grow. Otherwise, this would be a mere competition to get more followers by following no matter who.
The etiquette should be: Follow interesting people who share interesting content. Easy and simple.

By: My new twitter rules | Andy Ghozali

My new twitter rules | Andy Ghozali — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:07:34 +0000

[...] as @chrisbrogan said, enough with the fun140, it does not work well with everyone and so very [...]

By: Dennis Jernberg

Dennis Jernberg — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:59:15 +0000

Oh yeah. Sponsored Tweets are spam, too.

By: Dennis Jernberg

Dennis Jernberg — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:57:39 +0000

I've never autofollowed. I knew it wouldn't be a good idea when I started getting auto-DM spam, from Fun140 it turns out. I unfollowed those accounts, of course. And I routinely get unfollowed by accounts that follow me expecting me to autofollow them (as well as losing spambot accounts).

The day @Scobleizer unfollowed all his followers, I manually culled the accounts I follow. I could do it because I had only 375 follows; it got me down to 350. I'll continue to manually search for and add accounts to follow, but I'll never make the mistake of autofollowing.

Down with Fun140 & spambots!