Yes, aren’t those girls gorgeous!

Seriously, I couldn’t agree with you more. Twitter is completely out of control. The Direct messages are a joke. I use DM Whacker to bulk delete them now because it’ 99.9% spam. I used to read them all and met some really nice people but not anymore.

Now what I do is quickly scan them looking for porn and then I make sure I unfollow then block them.

I did go a long time doing everything manually and gained thousands of followers. This way I kept a better handle on the undesirables but it got to the point where I was spending too much time on Twitter.

So against my better judgment I started using software to gain followers. The software did pretty much what I was doing manually and it saved me tons of time so why not?

I’m not stupid, I realize that most of the people following me are only doing so because I followed them first. Most of them could really give a crap about what I have to say.

But it’s still a numbers game. The more followers I get the more nice people I meet even though it’s a really small percentage of the total.

What I do know is that I get a lot of traffic from Twitter so until I find a better way I’ll keep doing what I’m doing. I don’t use this traffic to sell anything but more for my blog and other free stuff.

Later,
Jeff Sargent
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Interesting one Twitter, many advantages, but also disadvantages with Spam, but then I look at my spam filter for email and it’s no different! Talk soon, Sean

great to hear your thoughts, I haven’t really used/exploited Twitter as yet as I started on there and got overwhelmed with the amount of direct sales messages and affiliate links that were swamping it.
I have used Tweetdeck to set up an Alex Jeffreys group of people to follow which has enabled me to keep tabs on the people that I actually want to communicate with.

Its interesting to see a number of marketers pulling back, recently both Alex and Mike Filsaime (and Paul wilson – Paul you keep some illustrious company! lol) dumped all their followers to start again with useful networks only in a bid to avoid the spam.

Think I will be watching this space as Twitter is not high in my priorities at the moment and it seems to be a changing medium.
Speak soon

Tom
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