Comments on: Stop Twitter Spam PLEASE!

By: Use Twitter As A Tool - Don''t Be One | SEOAly

Use Twitter As A Tool - Don''t Be One | SEOAly — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:54:04 +0000

[...] I’m not picking on people who are new to Twitter. Twitter is so new that it hasn’t been long since EVERYONE was a rookie. That said, there are some who navigate the learning curve really quickly and others that don’t. There’s nothing wrong with being among the latter, provided that you recognize you’re still learning and don’t make the mistake of pretending that you’re not. The blog post that amused, as well as sincerely disappointed me, was entitled “Stop Twitter Spam PLEASE!“. [...]

By: Diana Freedman

Diana Freedman — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:37:28 +0000

I definitely wouldn’t consider “You’re welcome!” as spam. One of the main points of Twitter is to share interesting content with your followers, and that’s exactly what the_gman does. I’ve been following him for a very long time on Twitter, and I’ve never considered him a spammer. I consider a spammer someone who continually tweets the same links to the same products repeatedly without contributing RT’s, @ replies, or any valuable interaction. I recently covered the topic of spammers on my blog: http://ustandout.com/twitter/top-10-signs-not-follow-back-twitter. Then you can learn the true definition of a spammer. :-)

By: Melanie Phung

Melanie Phung — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:07:22 +0000

I hate spam as much as the next person, but what you’re describing isn’t spam. It’s how Twitter is supposed to be used (which is to say that each individual can choose how to engage his followers however he wants to). I think @the_gman understands the @username-command just fine; if he’s spamming, then so is nearly EVERYONE who uses Twitter (except those who don’t engage their followers at all). If you don’t like seeing @replies, simply go into your settings and turn them off or limit them to just people you’re also following; or unfollow people who you find to be too “chatty”.

To turn off @replies to people you aren’t following, go to: Setting > Notices > @replies and select “Show me @replies to the people I’m following”. This will limit responses only to mutual friends.

By: Alysson

Alysson — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:06:34 +0000

First of all, there are no “rules” to using Twitter, so I’d encourage you to hop down off your high horse and refrain from stating that someone doesn’t understand the use of the @reply command. I’d also discourage you from making an accusation of “spamming” when you’re clearly not familiar with what constitutes genuine “Twitter spam”.

As Derek pointed out above, you only see an @reply if you are following both the person sending the reply and the one receiving it. You also have complete control over which @replies appear within your Twitterstream in the “Notices” section of your Twitter settings. You can eliminate @replies from your Twitterstream entirely, if you so desire.

I would submit to you that @replies are NOT “Twitter spam” and referring to it as such speaks a great deal to your lack of experience using Twitter.

By: Matt | Small Biz Bee

Matt | Small Biz Bee — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:48:24 +0000

I’m not sure why everyone get’s all worked up about “Twitter Spam”…if somebody is tweeting something that you don’t want in your timeline, and they are doing it so often you consider it spam, just click that “unfollow” button and move on. Trying to get the_gman to twitter the way you’d like him too just isn’t going to work, and is not the way Twitter is designed. If the_gman spams too much (based on your interpretation), just don’t follow.

That’s the cool part of Twitter, we control the messages we want to receive nothing is mandatory.

Just my two cents,

Matt

By: mizdi

mizdi — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:28:54 +0000

The the_gman is no spam. he maybe a super freak but a spam… definitely no.

He chose to use Twitter as he likes it and there is nothing wrong with that.

Twitter has no rules that say u cannot use @replies to thank someone or chat with a specific person or post links every other tweet or welcome a new follower.

That is the magic of Twitter…. its an open game for everyone.. no holds barred..

You dont like his tweets cluttering your public timeline.. unfollow him… and also others whom u don’t fancy reading their tweets. I myself had found out that not all people i followed are ”cool” so i had unfollowed many. Its not forbidden….promise.

I’m not the ”u follow me, i follow u” or “i follow back when u follow me” kind.

Í go for quality tweeps not quantity, but …that is me….that is how i like to use Twitter..and that is why I enjoy it. I can set my own standards.. so can you….. so can the_gman. To each his own..no dictation..no copying…..everyone’s happy.

By: Brian Horn

Brian Horn — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:30:12 +0000

Twitter is just about done in my opinion. Too easy for anyone to get thousands of followers using Twollow or a number of autofollow tools.

But if the_Gman wants to retweet blog posts all day, or @reply everything, let him…just unfollow him if you don’t like it. I’ve known him for years, and he’s not a spammer. That’s Just his style…he’s a good guy.