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Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

Aaron — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:41:15 -0000

Question for you all then. Using Twitter for a corporate account @maestroFM, I auto-DM followers with a personal introduction, basically just telling them my name and what I Twitter about for the company, www.maestro.fm. Should I remove this completely because it ticks more people off then it does give them a friendly hello?

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

sass — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:01:10 -0000

Yep, those auto DM's are deadly... Thanks for your comment!

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

sass — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:59:56 -0000

Experts, Gurus and Mavens, oh my!

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

sass — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:59:02 -0000

Thanks! That is one of the flaws of URL shorteners - you can't guess where it's going. If you use FireFox, try the Power Twitter plugin. It shows you the full link location before you click on it.

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

sass — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:56:37 -0000

Thanks Randy! Better to laugh than be annoyed. ;-)

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

sass — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:54:44 -0000

Thanks Asha, down with fake Tweeple!

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sass — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:53:49 -0000

Good point! The only thing worse than spam is spambots! ;-)

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sass — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:39:43 -0000

Thanks Todd! Yes the follow/unfollow game is annoying!

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mulch — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:03:55 -0000

#9 bums me out. just happened to me. 1,000 free ringtones. I just unfollow&block

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

AngelaW — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:23:13 -0000

Their bio contains a claim about being a social media expert.

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

pastachick — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:09:07 -0000

I found folks who had an interesting-sounding link about something supposedly funny; when clicking on, it was just a spam scam! All of their links were like that. Also got some porno girls following me-- their links turned out to be very hard-core. I blocked them immediately. I also beware those followers w/ almost no updates and oodles of followers. I just un-followed several folks last night...

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

Randy — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:05:36 -0000

Thanks for posting this. I just crossed the line of being annoyed with these fake followers.

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

Asha McGarrell — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:12:51 -0000

I hate fake tweeple! I don't need 1000 followers or more money and I don't want porn! This is a great list of how to identify them.

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

lightningjim — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:46:16 -0000

I have 2. If you get followers not soon after you tweet something, example "social media", odds are they are autofollowing spambots.

Also they end up here: http://twitspam.org/

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

TheDudeDean — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:13:51 -0000

They tend not to understand "More Cowbell"

Re: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

tojosan — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:55:23 -0000

Great list. #10 is my most nit picking one.
Good share. Reblogged a quote.

Another check - they follow/unfollow/follow/unfollow in an attempt to get you to follow them back.