Comments on: Proper Twitter Etiquette, What is it?

By: Chris Abraham

Chris Abraham — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:41:15 +0000

Andrew, I want you to know that I, indeed, did turn off that Auto Flickr tweet feature a long time ago, primarily because of the Tweetback from my Tweeps!

By: Chris Abraham

Chris Abraham — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:41:15 +0000

Andrew, I want you to know that I, indeed, did turn off that Auto Flickr tweet feature a long time ago, primarily because of the Tweetback from my Tweeps!

By: My Blog Needs Twitter - Covering All That's Social All the Web

My Blog Needs Twitter - Covering All That's Social All the Web — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:28:26 +0000

[...] case, Twitter has been driving an increasing amount of traffic to my site. I previously wrote about Twitter etiquette and some people said that linking to yourself in Twitter is annoying and not proper etiquette. In a [...]

By: jer979

jer979 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:51:18 +0000

The market will determine what is Twitter etiquette. If you post crap, people will start to un-follow (particularly as Twitter gains more users).

Can you deliver value through status updates/Tweets (see http://www.jer979.com/igniting-the-revolution/outlook-twitter-facebook-starting-a-conversation/

As for my approach, when someone starts to follow me, I look at his/her profile and last few tweets…if it is what I am looking for, i’ll sign up, but I also prune the network to reduce noise.

By: jer979

jer979 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:51:18 +0000

The market will determine what is Twitter etiquette. If you post crap, people will start to un-follow (particularly as Twitter gains more users).

Can you deliver value through status updates/Tweets (see http://www.jer979.com/igniting-the-revolution/o...

As for my approach, when someone starts to follow me, I look at his/her profile and last few tweets…if it is what I am looking for, i'll sign up, but I also prune the network to reduce noise.

By: jer979

jer979 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:51:18 +0000

The market will determine what is Twitter etiquette. If you post crap, people will start to un-follow (particularly as Twitter gains more users).

Can you deliver value through status updates/Tweets (see http://www.jer979.com/igniting-the-revolution/o...

As for my approach, when someone starts to follow me, I look at his/her profile and last few tweets…if it is what I am looking for, i'll sign up, but I also prune the network to reduce noise.

By: Jesse Thomas - JESS3

Jesse Thomas - JESS3 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:54:11 +0000

@brian, great point – “try to contribute at least 10% of what you consume.”

By: Jesse Thomas - JESS3

Jesse Thomas - JESS3 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:54:11 +0000

@brian, great point – “try to contribute at least 10% of what you consume.”

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:23:15 +0000

I like the 10 commandments approach – although I’d boil it down to “Do unto others as you have done unto yourself” – and of course the beauty is that if you don’t dig what you’re getting from individuals – then un-follow or block – like will tend to go with like and everybody’s happy – yeah – I’m an optimist!

By: Nick O'Neill

Nick O'Neill — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:52:03 +0000

@Doug, I definitely don’t think that’s (twitter spammers) a viable choice. Following 2,000 people for no reason won’t work. What you are calling twitter “whores” are really Twitter spammers. They simply have no idea how to build a community and real relationships with other people.

You need to be “real” and you need to be part of the conversation. Ultimately, “New Blog Post: XYZ” is not a great conversation starter but if I posted it with a question, I think it would be acceptable.

The real question is if there is any effectiveness in twitter spam. If there is, then I think we will see more spam. I don’t consider what I’m doing necessarily spam but as I just said, “New Blog Post:” probably isn’t the best way to do it.

None of the people reading this blog are typically the spammers that you speak of. I think there is a big distinction between the self-promoters and Twitter spammers though.

In regular marketing don’t a lot promotions end up pissing a few people off? Is that really a horrendous thing?