5 Mistakes You're (Still) Making On Twitter - AllTwitter
Please excuse the rant. It is offered with the best of intentions.
1. You Use TrueTwit
TrueTwit is a ‘validation service’ that sends out an automated direct message anytime somebody follows you, asking them to ‘verify’ their account. Here’s your wake-up call – nobody credible on Twitter uses TrueTwit. The funny part is that it’s almost always the people you want to avoid who use this tool – spammy marketers and affiliate-scheme pushers. What’s funnier still is they use the service to try and avoid other people like them.
And the part that will make you laugh-out-loud is most people will automatically unfollow somebody who asks them to verify their account.
And you wonder why you get bombarded with direct message spam and seem to pick up every XSS exploit and hack that impacts the network. And have to resort to junk products like TrueTwit. If you didn’t auto-follow people back, none of this stuff would be an issue, would it?
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