Comments on: In Defense Of Twitter Automation

By: Allan Douglas

Allan Douglas — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:10:11 +0000

I love the video! That is exactly why I have been so slow to embrace twitter at all. I simply do not spend my entire day sitting in front of a computer screen, and when I am, I’m WORKING. The last thing I need is to be constantly distracted by having to watch tweets roll down the screen to see if it’s anything that is of a concern to me. TweetDeck would probably make this more useful. I check my e-mail periodically through the day, I could check tweets too. But if folks are expecting an immediate response I’ll still be “irking” people, as Mitch put it.

All of the Twitter originated materials I’ve seen to date indicate to me that Twitter was intended to be used in exactly that way; by addicted tweet-heads who connect with a circle of other tweet-heads to tell one another about their every move and notion.

But of course, the marketing guru’s have come on the scene and found a way to make it into a piece of the marketing machine. From what I read, it works too!

Until someone invents a hover-cam that follows its owner around, shooting pictures every 37 seconds and posting them to Twitter (PLEASE turn it off when you go in the bathroom!), I find no great fault with automating Twitter posts. Like anything, if taken to an extreme it will be counter productive because it will annoy people enough that they will unfollow you or find a way to block spam-tweets. Where we draw the line on what we deem to be acceptable use of automation will vary from person to person and what they are trying to accomplish.
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By: Jannie Funster

Jannie Funster — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:47:53 +0000

Again, with real URL feeling!
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By: Jannie Funster

Jannie Funster — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:46:38 +0000

Trey, I really like your new site design, the white background really pops out the rest.

Been too long since I was here, please forgive me. You know how life can be. But it’s good to be here in Trey Land once more.

Those who judge how you use Twitter tell me they are going through life struggles they are not fully addressing. How are you hurting them with how YOU use Twitter?

Keepping doing what works for what you love to do.

I suppose at some point I will link my Twitter to my blog and FB, to announce new blog posts automatically. I feel no remorse at the prospect of that.

And there you have it, as you say 6 billion peeps, 6 billion ways. Or are we 7 billion now?

By: J

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:17:37 +0000

Trey, have you heard from Don lately? I havent heard from him in months, anyway to get ahold of him? His old Myspace account is inactive. Thanks

By: O2O - Ordinary to Outstanding

O2O - Ordinary to Outstanding — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:02:31 +0000

Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with twitter automation. There are always going to be situations where you don’t have access to a computer, are out with friends, busy with work or other things, etc… the list goes on and on. Just because someone doesn’t live on their twitter account or forgets to check it, doesn’t mean they should be looked down upon.

I think those people that write things such as the “proper way to use twitter” really need to loosen up haha. Life’s too short, there’s no proper way to do anything lol just live.
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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:13:11 +0000

I’ll admit that I’m one of those folks who hates most Twitter automation. The only thing I have automated is having my blog posts show up whenever they go live, mainly because I tend to write most of my blog posts ahead of time. And if people see it, they know it’s a blog post because it comes with its own mini-preamble.

The thing is that if there’s no preamble then sometimes I will respond to a person’s post, thinking they’re live because I happen to be live, and if I don’t get a response I get irked. Every once in awhile I check someone’s profile, and if I see they haven’t been what I consider “social”, as in haven’t responded to anyone in their last 20 posts or so, I delete them. Now, maybe you intersperse your hourly posts with comments back to people, but if you haven’t done so within 20 posts, and it happens to be one of those times when I’m checking, I would probably delete you and move on, especially if I don’t know you that well already.

So, that’s one of those risks of automation if you ask me.
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