Posts Tagged ‘Fort Worth Twitter’

If you’ve been using twitter, you may be irritated when people send you auto-DM’s trying to sell stuff. Though most would say this stuff is just garbage, I decided to try to make something useful — a blog post — out of some DM’s I received this week, headlined and with my unsent commentary underneath.

Get followers faster than a speeding bullet:

DM: Thanks for the Follow! Would you Like to Know How to get 16’000 Followers in 90 Days and Make Money doing it?

(Well, at least he didn’t advertise a geometric progression of gaining followers. I still don’t believe this guy.)

Playing on Looking for Lonely Women:

DM: (This was from this cutie-pie-guy type avatar) Hi, Let me get to know you. @Reply me with your favorite RE investing method …

(Not sure what RE investing is or what this guy is after but either way I’m not interested … )

1000′s per day Online

DM: Learn First Hand How to Make $1000′s Per Day Online From Two 26 Year-Old Internet Millionaires!” We Can Teach ANYONE To Succeed

(If they can teach anyone to make 1,000′s a day online money isn’t going to be worth very much, for very long. The only people they’re really planning to help get rich is themselves.)

No Effort Required

DM: Want to know how to make money on Ad clicks with no effort, check this out.

(I’d love to make money with no effort but since I’ve never seen anyone make money without trying, except by inheriting, I don’t believe this one either.)

This one didn’t grate until I received it 4 or 5 times:

DM: Hey, thanks for the follow. I’m looking for four serious entrepreneurs. click here:

(Sorry, I am not an entrepreneur and if I was, I’d be in the garage or on the phone developing stuff, not messing around on Twitter. )

I’m Not Sure What You Mean, But Since You Mentioned Making Money I’m Suspicious

DM: Hello,Tweets is fun if you start getting lots of followers.You could earn some small money while having fun too .Just check this out, it is simple to set up and I can even do it for you

(ah, so it’s a pay-per-tweet scheme.)

Shades of Benjamin Franklin

DM: Thx, Let’s enjoy life & share success the Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Way.

To finish the rhyme: Early to be and early to rise makes a man healthy and wealth and wise. Nothing about Twitter in that rhyme, over 200 years old.

What do you do with these? I deal with these DM’s on Tweetdeck. Tweetdeck has an easy “other actions” button on DM’s. One of the other actions is “unfollow.” Now you know. You can add everyone who adds you, and just unfollow those who send these kinds of DM’s. Save time (but not money.) But you aren’t on twitter for money, are you?

Generally, if I’m following you on Twitter, I stay following you. I’m now following over 1,000 people, and I no longer believe I can read everyone’s tweets, so actually, at this point adding more people doesn’t really cost me anything.  It actually just increases the pool of potential tweets I read on the half hour or so each day that I’m on. However, there are ways you can tweet and DM that can get an “unfollow” response from me. Here are some of the biggest:

1. DM me a message about how I can make $5000 a month with only one hour’s work a day, or how I can be healthy, wealthy, or wise by reading an ebook, or promising to show me how to have over 10,000 followers … forget it. That’s the end of our “relationship.” In fact, if you ever send me an auto-DM it’s over. 

2. Talk too much about your sexual interests that I do not share.

3. That goes for your political views as well.

4. Repeatly send out messages that are just a bunch of technical jargon I don’t understand, so that I finally recognize your avatar as “that one that never makes any sense.” At that point, you’re not gaining anything from being on my thread anyway, so I might as well drop.

5. Make too much use of hashtag threads relating to words on a theme. Once or twice is okay, but when you start doing it incessantly, it starts to grate. Biggest offender this week? #Three hot words.# Ugg. 

6. Brag about prizes your kids won and how, in particular, your kids are actually smarter/stronger/more socially well adjusted than other kids, including, by extension, mine. Friends don’t brag about their kids. And tweeps are supposed to be friends.

Is there any clemency or mercy? Yes, there is. If the rest of your tweets are really good, I might overlook any of these things (except #1). And of course, there are no rules on Twitter. Any of these concepts could be changed or suspended at any moment. Look, I’m sorry, I’m not trying to be a grouch –I’m just saying.

Now you know.