Monthly Archives: May 2009

Dealing with twitter Auto Dms and Spam

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There are two things that really annoy me on twitter.

Twitter Spam and Auto Direct Messages (Auto Dm)

Spam being the big number 1 and a close second, the Auto DM.

The first one needs no explanation, spam is spam, even on twitter and it can come in many shapes and forms. The second is just downright rude and makes me grind my teeth.

I mean seriously, how hard can it be to write a message in less than 140 characters to say hello to someone that you have followed or who has just followed you back. Auto DM’s just stink of pure laziness and for me , a lack of respect.I hate being treated as a number on someones account, never mind the fact that an auto DM inevitably leads to a nice dose of the afore mentioned twitter spam trying to sell me something for 1 dollar.

I also don’t have the time to reply to these people, a lot of the time they are not even there, to explain that one or the other of these things is not doing them any favours, so I decided to address the problem directly.

I have started to simply send them one or other of the tiny URLs below before I quite happily hit the unfollow button and get on with more productive matters. I thought it was about time I shared.

Feel free to use them at your leisure or pleasure, just keep the hashtag in there as well.

Twitter Spam URL :

http://bit.ly/18dGgW #SPAM

Dealing with twitter Auto Dms and Spam

Twitter Auto DM URL:

http://bit.ly/vkDys #ADM

Dealing with twitter Auto Dms and Spam

Twitter No Avatar URL:

http://bit.ly/u3WG7 #AVATAR

Dealing with twitter Auto Dms and Spam

Twitter Mafia Family Crap

http://bit.ly/iWjW1 #MFCRAP

Dealing with twitter Auto Dms and Spam

Social Media – Who takes responsibility in the corporate environment

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I have been involved in LinkedIn Groups (if your not on LinkedIn get signed up) for a while now and make a point of contributing where I can when I feel I have something useful to add.  Just recently Reginald Bautista asked the question:

Who’s responsible for Social Media Activities? Marketing or PR?

This question has provoked quite a debate among the members of the Pro Marketers – For Marketing Professionals Group with various views and opinions.

Most are of the opinion that it is a duel responsibility between the respective departments, while personally I am of the opinion that a complete “mental overhaul” is required regarding social media and corporations, its practices and application, its inherent value, and the implications of social media in business, separating it completely from the traditional practices by departments of Marketing and PR (but that’s a whole over post for another day).

One person in particular has obviously thought long and hard about what Social Media can bring to the table and has quite rightly pointed out that by trying to focus on it as a Marketing or PR tool is actually a mistake and the bias that exists within companies as they struggle to understand the reach and implications of social media outside of these two areas.

I hope that Dean Guadagni, Business Director for Inner Architect, will not mind me quoting him directly. I feel he has an essential understanding of what social media is, can be and will become when its full application is properly considered;

Social Media functionality is so MUCH more than marketing or public relations. Yet, most corporations limit their belief of the functionality of social media to marketing or public relations.

Savvy companies understand the multiple opportunities within social media. They create leaders for each department, with strategic goals, and the ability to collaborate with their counterparts in each department.

Whether they use a wiki or an internal, password protected, blog the idea is to “crowdsource” your own human capital. Prior to launching that type of effort, guidelines are created so that everyone is on the same page.

Corporations are beginning to understand the multiple business applications of social media:

1. Project Management
2. Crowdsourcing (http://ideastorm.com) Dell
3. Breaking News
4. Customer Service
5. Internal Communications
6. Internal Monitoring
7. Product Development
8. Recruiting
9. Reputation Management
10.Policy Notification ( Britain’s Social Media Move http://innerarchitect.com/2009/05/22/britain-appoints-social-media-czar-turning-point-in-social-media-adoption/ )

An excellent, concise list of where Social Media could be utilized in a variety of different functions within the corporate environment  when the social media bigger picture is analysed properly. Well said Mr. Guadagni.

twttrlist – creating and sharing a list of your favourite Tweets

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Favourite Tweets seem to be the flavour of the month for me at the moment with a few articles blogged this week regarding Twitter Favourites.

Coincidently Mashable today released a review of Squidoo who have decided to launched twttrlist, a way of organising and deploying your favourite tweets to friends and followers alike in categories, groups and under hashtags.

As Ben Parr says:

Although really simple, it’s a great way to create a mosaic of Tweets, to promote a hashtag, compile the best tweets about an event, or even promote yourself on Twitter. It also comes with the ability to reply or retweet individual tweets, as well as share the entire Twttrlist page.

It looks like cataloging and adding tweets to favourites might become very useful as a record of important information in the ongoing devleopment of twitter and I have now have ANOTHER app on my list to organise and maintain. Great!