Danny Brown - Latest Comments in 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Brad — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:03:07 -0000

Wow Danny great article!.I agree with everything you said. I think I am guilty of DM spam. I have a script that auto DM's a user after they follow me. Well might take it off soon, but great read. I'm gonna send it to a few friends that are doing the same.

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Danny — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:44:44 -0000

Huh... bizarre. Gotta love that organic SEO ;-)

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Ari Herzog — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:41:57 -0000

For "replyme" -- a Wordpress plugin I'd written about in the past and am considering again. I wondered if you'd written about it, and oddly this page came up -- though don't know why.

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Danny — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:25:41 -0000

Same as 2009 - #4 is less of a bane, but the rest still stand.

What was the keyword search?

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Ari Herzog — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:58:28 -0000

...and now? ;)

(Who would have guessed this posting would be #2 on a google keyword search?)

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Danny — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:49:56 -0000

Probably more "lenient" on the open conversations angle, Ari, but the rest are all still current takes.

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Ari Herzog — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:42:03 -0000

Have any of your thoughts changed in the past year, Danny?
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suzannahscully — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:51:48 -0000

I&#39m just starting to figure out how to use Twitter effectively and have fun with it and really appreciated your blogpost!

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Suzannah Scully — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:51:48 -0000

I'm just starting to figure out how to use Twitter effectively and have fun with it and really appreciated your blogpost!

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

leosaraceni — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:17:57 -0000

Today, there&#39re even more stuff to feel annoyed about: people that think twitter is a new money opportunity and spoil our feeds with affiliate offers.

But hey, social media is still a numbers game for the majority of users. It&#39s all about the number of followers/friends. Until that change and people give focus on stronger relationships instead of quantity.

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

leosaraceni — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:17:57 -0000

Today, there're even more stuff to feel annoyed about: people that think twitter is a new money opportunity and spoil our feeds with affiliate offers.

But hey, social media is still a numbers game for the majority of users. It's all about the number of followers/friends. Until that change and people give focus on stronger relationships instead of quantity.

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Tatyana Gann — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:45:38 -0000

Hey Danny

Great info about twitter tabus. I think people do not understand the concept of engaging, interacting and that purpose of twitter is to create two way message. not one way.
I think people do too much advertising and not interacting and they wonder why nobody responds.. Hello...

I love your suggestion about open conversation.. Very good!

Thank you

Tatyana

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Maggie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:40:48 -0000

The thing I hate most about Twitter is the numbers game--I follow about 150 people and it's all I can do to keep up with all of them; I can't imagine having to follow more. I actually read every tweet from every person I follow, and I pick those people very carefully because I devote a very decent amount of time to following what they're saying and reading the links they share. I admit I sometimes fall into the trap of thinking I need to ramp it up to try to get more followers to get more blog readers to....well, to become exactly what I'm not sure!

It feels a little weird being a social media enthusiast who knows all the right things to do to increase my numbers--and making a choice to not do them. But my life is complicated enough as it is!

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

JanSimpson — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:54:47 -0000

Nice post Danny. I must say that when being new a community, you must find your way, find out who you like and who you don't like. Simple as that. There are relationships that have been built solid and here are conversations that have bee established. Take your time before doing anything rash.

The person who said "if I wanted to watch the game, I would need Twitter" paraphrasing. First of all, it is not all about you - shocking eh? But there are others around the world that do not get coverage or they are away from any communication - and would love to see that - simply unfollow until the game is over - or how about joining in the discussion and get to know others, wow what a concept. Figure this out, if you think the world evolves around, it doesn't, if you think people in a community are going to bow down to you, they want - you have to earn respect and the right to be in the community -no more free passes on any site, especially Twitter.

Nice post Danny - I should read you more often.

JanSimpson

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Nancy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:59:41 -0000

Danny, thanks for the great tips. I am a new tweeter and I am trying to figure out how I fit in it to all the other conversations. I have learned a lot from you.

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Kaneta Alexander — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:15:07 -0000

Great blog post., Nice to meet a genuine community oriented individual.
Your blog gave me something to think about.

Thanks for sharing

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Deeziner — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:22:28 -0000

"what the heck does # mean?”"

I just learned this! It's cool.

When you have a topic of your own that you want people to be able to find easily, then you create your own "#something" - called a hash tag.

Got this from @BianaBabinsky (a very helpful Twitterererer) : " tag ur tips with a hashtag ... that way peeps can search for the tag and see all..."

For example, if you want to post an inspirational quote every Monday, you can use a hash tag like #Monday so people can type it into the Twitter search and see everything you posted with #Monday in your tweets.

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Deeziner — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:07:22 -0000

"“Should I just tweet links to my blog, my products, my store?”"

As another newbie user, I say a hearty "PLEASE don't!" This fits into the "shameless self-promotion" and "just plain annoying" categories ...

Every blog and forum is already flooded with people over-promoting their products; there is more "junk" out there than real conversations and real exchanges of info. I hope I'm not one of those, they really really annoy me :-)

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Deeziner — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:00:11 -0000

"...I wonder “Am I supposed to DM each new follower and thank them?”"

I'm new too. I noticed that the people who I Followed, who seem to be making a sincere effort to interact and add value, all sent me a "Thank you" for my Follow. I am doing the same to those who Follow me, if it looks like they aren't just "head hunters" - people who follow everyone possible, just to have a large Follower base.

That's not right or wrong, it's just my decision on how to interact with those who I think add value in the areas I am interested in.

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Deeziner — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:54:09 -0000

"How do you find followers when you’re just starting out?"

Good question! I found that as soon as I found a couple people to follow (found their link on their blogs or Facebook page or somewhere) then I started getting people "following" me. So I'd go to their Twitter pages and look through THEIR follows for people I think look interesting.

Also, 2 days ago I signed up at MrTweet.net which compares your twitter profile to others and delivers a list of people you might want to follow. I've found it somewhat useful, finding a few new people to follow.

-- I don't understand why people have thousands of Follows. It takes time to read posts and respond to ones of interest, and I'm already overwhelmed with 30 or so Follows. But some people do, I think, consider it a matter of pride to have thousands of Followers, regardless of their ability to actually interact with even half of them.

Best of luck :-)

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Deeziner — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:50:16 -0000

My #1? The endless "what I ate for dinner" tweets. If you have nothing to say, then don't post. Do you call your "real world" friends every 15 minutes to tell them you just ate an orange, or you just cleaned the cat box, or you're about to go to sleep? I don't think so! So, why post it in Twitter to people you've never met? Why would they care more than your real-time friends? News Flash: they don't.

And, probably along the line of "continuing personal conversations", just saw 10 posts from the same person saying "@someone Thank you." No one else knows what he's thanking them for. So what value is there in making his gratitude public?

I've just joined Twitter a few weeks ago and still don't see value in it. I've found a few resources, but I'd find them anyway if I did a search. I'll probably delete my account in another week, it is a timewaster.

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Danny — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:47:23 -0000

The truth is, Sandi, there are no rules to Twitter. Everyone has their own likes and dislikes - the ones above are just my own personal peeves :)

But I'm sure I do things that people hate as well, which is cool - after all, we'd all be boring if we did the same things.

Honestly, just be yourself, do your thing, and people will either like what you're doing or not. It's the great thing about the UnFollow feature :)

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@sandiballoon — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:36:20 -0000

Thank you for this article. I'm a total newbie and will openly admit that I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to social netwoking. I got the hang of facebook, i guess, but Twitter is still a bit of a mystery. I've found some really interesting people to follow through it, and some links to great posts like this one, but I still don't really get how to become a part of the tworld. How do you find followers when you're just starting out? That's the one thing that I really haven't figured out the answer to... I mean just because I follow someone that I find interesting, and they have 1000's of followers, they don't even know that I exist... and I can't get involved in the conversation, even if I have something to add, unless they're following me.... so that's where I'm really getting a bit lost, lol...

Anyway, once I do have followers, now I know what would annoy them ;-) so thank you very much for that!

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Cee — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:55:12 -0000

Can you add "Sports Play by Plays" to your list?

If I wanted to know anything about the game, I'd be watching it. I don't need 81923749823423 tweets from a user letting me know how the World Series is going.

Re: 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Twitter Relationship

Henie — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:22:56 -0000

Thank you for sharing your insights, Danny!

We are all different and Twitter can accommodate our versatility. And it isn't a matter of "right" or "wrong" as you've mentioned...perhaps another way to see it is "working" or "not working"...it presents a more neutral outlook.

I am very new to Twitter and on the first couple of weeks, all I did was observe silently until I figured out what would work for me...I am still sculpting my needs and sculpting what I can do to offer back to this incredible community!

My general concept is this: If something annoys me, I add it to my list of what not to do. If I like something, I add it to my list of what to do...I guess it all boils down to "tweet unto others as you would like others tweet unto you" :~)

And it is more important to me who I follow...I choose this very carefully because these are the people I can learn valuable insights from...having a zillion unconnecting followers is a waste of everyone's life currency!

Thank you, Danny, for the opportunity to learn from you everyday!

"Authenticity needs no selling just sharing!" ~Henie~

Best Always,
Henie