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How NOT To Tweet

I haven’t done one of my “Twitter Police” posts for a while. Here goes: another example of a completely useless Twitter account. Automated, broadcasting, annoying, no connecting or interacting. A waste of time!

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They Didn’t Follow You Back? Chances Are, It’s Not Personal

The more I tweet, the more I realize that in the vast majority of cases, people no longer check each and every link in each email notification they receive about a new follower, to decide if they should follow back. I know I don’t! I used to do this in the past – I would go to each Twitter account who had followed me to see if we share the same interests. I even used to go visit people’s websites to make sure we were a good fit. Based on this research, I used to make my decision whether to follow them back or not.

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Twitter Not Very Social

Were you surprised to learn that Twitter users are more into broadcasting and less into networking? Anyone who’s been on Twitter for longer than a week can see that most people use Twitter to share links with others or to report on their activities – Twitter is not a very interactive platform despite built-in tools such as “reply” and “retweet.”

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Why It’s So Difficult To Get Twitter Followers

If you’re not a celebrity, getting people on Twitter to follow you back is notoriously difficult. This is especially true if you look as if you’re trying to sell something, so don’t. It’s funny, really, becuase we all try to sell something on Twitter – if not a product or a service, then we’re trying to sell ourselves, our ideas, our brand. But the unspoken rules of social media say that even though we’re all there to sell, we must pretend as if we’re all there to engage with one another and have conversations.

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8 Twitter Don’ts

When you use Twitter, please DON’T:

1. Create an account that doesn’t tweet except for asking people to follow you.

2. Create an account that doesn’t tweet except for a single tweet with your website URL.

3. Create a Twitter account with unreadable light font on light background that means no one can read your Twitter bio.

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Twitter Reduces Spam to 1% of Tweets – NOT ENOUGH

Twitter has recently boasted on its blog that they have managed to seriously reduce Twitter spam and that spam now account for just 1% of all tweets.

While the supportive folks on Mashable were quick to join Twitter’s little celebration, pointing out that this figure is impressive since 90% of email is spam, I find it a little misleading. Perhaps 90% of email is spam, but – at least when I use Gmail – none of it reaches my Inbox. However, when I use Twitter, I still deal with spammers daily.

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Despite Fighting Spam and Scam, Twitter Scams Still Abound

I came across this tweet and thought to myself that this is exactly the type of work-from-home scams that people need to beware of. Twitter is still filled with people who tweet this type of stuff. Despite all the efforts to clean Twitter out of spam and scams, it’s still pretty much “user beware” when [...]

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Personally, I Wouldn’t Tweet That

Especially not on what seems to be a professional account. Unless his account has been hacked, I can’t really think of a single reason why tweeting this would be a good idea (click on the image to see the original tweet):

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A Safer Twitter

Great news: Twitter is finally stepping up its efforts to protect users against spam and phishing attacks. The company has announced today on its blog that from now on, all links submitted to Twitter will be routed through a service that detects bad links and prevents their spreading. For now, the service will focus on [...]

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How NOT To Tweet

I spend a couple of hours each day on Twitter, tweetering for clients and for myself. Part of my job is to check new Twitter followers, figure out if they’re legitimate and relevant to a particular client, and decide whether to follow them back or not (or, if they’re spammers, whether I should block them and report them).

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