Twitter Spam, we all hate it and want it to go away … but what is IT?
The general population of Twitter tends to classify spam as unsolicited promotional material that provides little to no value to the community.
Some (possible) examples of this are:
- Bots that RT specific users
- TwitterFeeds of blog posts
- Affiliate link feeds
- Software that forces you to Tweet a standard message
- Anything repetitive
I’m sure there are a lot of other spammy uses of Twitter but my main focus here is to explain how you can avoid being classified as a spammer.
First off, we need to remember that Twitter is an opt-in service. Basically you need to subscribe to someones Twitter feed before you start receiving their Tweets. Whenever you subscribe to someones Twitter account, they are most likely notified by email of your follow. This is where it is important that your public timeline is filled with conversations and quality links that people might find beneficial. If that user decides, in the split second they may view your page, that you are not contributing to the greater good of the Twitter community, they may write you off as spam and not follow you back.
Everyone has their own classification of what spam is on Twitter. Some other contributing factors to spammy accounts might be:
- You’re following too many people
- You never filled out your profile
- You never post anything
- You only post things from your blog
- You’re too good looking to be real
- You sound like a robot
So my advice?
- Avoid using services that promise mass amounts of followers.
- Don’t set up a TwitterFeed and instead manually post interesting content
- Complete your profile with as much information about yourself as possible
- TALK TO PEOPLE
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