Is Twitter Automation a Good Idea?

Ohdoctah
#1. July 3rd, 2009, at 1:49 PM.

Auto anything on Twitter is bad. The spam is already reaching levels that annoy me. Soon I fear it will reach myspace levels. Twitter doesn’t do one thing to curb the mass spammers that sign up. Not even an email verification. Grr I just think anything auto is bad for business. Nice post!

Paul
#3. July 3rd, 2009, at 4:56 PM.

http://www.Tweeterfollow .com had sent me a message so I went to check out its service. It needed me to login and I didn’t think twice. Then it automatically followed 400 people and most were spam accounts. So I had to delete all of the new people I was following… I went to contact the people and the wrote on the form “do not contact us if you want to close your account. You should have read the rules.” I went to my devices under settings and deleted there feed.

Dan
#5. July 3rd, 2009, at 11:11 PM.

I myself don’t utilize any auto twitter on twitter but I can see where some people or business where it would be benefecial everyone’s motivations are different and that is why twitter is so great.

John Sullivan
#6. July 4th, 2009, at 8:38 AM.

Happy 4th Pixel
As far as twitter NO comment LOL

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#7. July 4th, 2009, at 10:34 AM.

It seems that automation might be a big obstacle to ultimate twitter usability, as we found with email spamming, which consumes up to 90% of my mail. I am interested to see how twitter evolves around this.

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#9. July 5th, 2009, at 2:52 PM.

I agree whit “Ohdoctah”. Spam is really starting to annoy me! I don’t think that that automation is very good idea. It is going to make things even worst! Good post!:D

Goran
#10. July 6th, 2009, at 7:56 PM.

Twitter will have to deal with spam, and hopefully nip it in the bub as effectively as possible. Otherwise spam will shut the birdies up!

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#11. July 7th, 2009, at 10:33 PM.

What’s up Pixelhead, These are some good tools for twitter. That’s what I like about Twitter though…. It enables some really neat software. Automation can be great if you use it right, but spammers will always spoil it for all of us anyways, anyhow thanks man!

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#12. July 8th, 2009, at 4:30 AM.

Hi Pixelhead,
Thank you for sharing the information.
Your article about “How to Automate Twitter” is very useful.
I’ll see how it works.
Thank you so much!

Kyle
#13. July 8th, 2009, at 10:41 AM.

Twitter isn’t as much of a draw for spammers as some other sites simply because its hard to get followers for spam accounts but Twitter will have to curtail its automation no doubt.

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#14. July 10th, 2009, at 6:55 AM.

I’m not for automating these things. Alot of people will be just tweating the same thing then. More spam than they currently have.

Ajith Edassery
#15. July 11th, 2009, at 6:19 PM.

People use autofollow tools mainly with the expectation that some of those may actually follow back. This kind of baiting doesn’t work very well for long term. At the end, it is about the kind of tweets that is originating out of you. It’s true that it’s not very easy to select and unfollow later but more than size the quality of followers matter.

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#16. July 12th, 2009, at 3:04 AM.

Yeah, this could get really, really out of hand. The spam I mean. Twitter is bad enough the way it is.

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#17. July 12th, 2009, at 3:08 AM.

Hmmm… I know a few folks who spam twitter on a regular basis. It works for some and not for others. Personally, I hate spam of any kind, be it email, twitter, myspace, facebook etc. I’d rather spend my time writing things that people actually find interesting and useful and I appreciate the same consideration in return. Just my 2 cents.

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#18. July 12th, 2009, at 10:39 PM.

oh yeah, they need to get control over this RIGHT NOW! Twitter is always have a lot of problems like people posing as celebrities (i mean most social networking sites like Facebook and myspace) have that problem as wel anyway. But they better put a tight lid on it. Or Twitter will be no more!

mike
#19. July 14th, 2009, at 12:44 AM.

You stated the most important thing…

Make sure to give your audience real tweets with substance as opposed to all automated updates!!

Nobody likes Twam. They will un-follow you very quickly.

frasi
#20. July 14th, 2009, at 3:34 PM.

For me, twitter automation will defined when I can tweet “bring me a beer” and either a robot or a follower will do so. I bet Calacanis already sees this functionality.

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#21. July 15th, 2009, at 9:00 AM.

Ultimately automated twitter creates problems for us, as all know spamming reached unbearable height in Twitter, many steps taken prevent from spam but still not enough and this automated will create more problems.

Tyrkiet Rejser
#22. July 15th, 2009, at 9:14 AM.

You giver some good examples when automatisation of Twitter is okay.

I guess it depends on the purpose. If you just trying to sell something, it is a bad thing – but i.e. if you are looking for someone to follow based on a keyword, I think it is fine.

Alex
#23. July 15th, 2009, at 12:05 PM.

I have no experience in working with Twitter. What should be my first steps? IDOes it work in accordance with friendfeed?

Ryan Jones
#25. July 16th, 2009, at 4:08 AM.

I am not so fond of auto twitter just because of the spammers out there. I cant even see relevant twitters right now because the spammer has my whole screen filled with his messages. If used appropriately i could dig it. Sacramento Property management

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#26. July 16th, 2009, at 8:18 AM.

So many people are using these auto tweeting websites! Mainly the teenage girls who want you to check out their online dating pictures! They are so annoying.

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#27. July 16th, 2009, at 3:00 PM.

Soon all the twittering will be done for us by machines. And suddenly it’ll be applications interacting with each other instead of people. Sound like the end of twitter to me.

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#28. July 17th, 2009, at 6:17 AM.

Yes it is a good thing. Tweetlater is a website that helps you automate your tweets so you can send them in a specific time of a specific day.
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Hotelier
#29. July 19th, 2009, at 4:10 PM.

This solution might be pretty handy in order to use twitter as a SEO platform, otherwise it is completely useless for an ordinary user…

ASHLEY
#30. July 19th, 2009, at 4:19 PM.

All media like this will be abused if possible tho twitter was designed to be only simple text like “i am on holiday” or “i am working in oman” or something simple.it will probably depend on how much money and how much trade twitter gets from it

Discon
#31. July 20th, 2009, at 1:05 PM.

Then visit the other Twitter posts on this site and drop your Twitter profile url in blog posts that pertain to Twitter, At the end, it is about the kind of tweets that is originating out of you. Twitter is bad enough the way it is.

John Peter
#32. July 21st, 2009, at 4:55 AM.

Hi Pixel Head,

I really enjoyed reading this post. and i got some sound knowledge about twitter automation with the help of your post. Thanks for sharing such a good idea. Keep Rocking!!!!!!!!!!

dcs
#33. July 21st, 2009, at 8:12 AM.

I’m trying out Twitter in these days. I know, I’m late! I think it will be / is / bigger than some of the biggest current social networks (myspace for example). Automation tools and spam can do some damage but I don’t believe they can kill it, since I haven’t heard about a social network that would fail completely just becouse of spam.

aditya
#34. July 21st, 2009, at 8:12 AM.

I’m newbie to these automation tools. But I must say that we’ve to be very careful before using these tools.

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#35. July 21st, 2009, at 1:18 PM.

I use it extensively. although I supply real value tweets, I’m not sure who is following it. I mean so many tweets, so many profiles to follow – I really wonder when it will all explode. and now all the tweets are going automatically to Facebook and other social applications. To tell the truth is a “strange new world” but who cares if you can’t beat them, join them

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#36. July 22nd, 2009, at 10:24 AM.

I use pingfm to automate the postings to all my social network. But main problem is that site do a internal page with link to Twitter and followers will read a pingfm page instead my blog.

KK
#37. July 23rd, 2009, at 7:33 AM.

TwitterFeed is a good automation service.

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#38. July 24th, 2009, at 3:27 PM.

I’ve used some of these automated system my self. I think it depends on what you automating as to if it’s a good idea or not. I’m only automating a weekly top pick from user submitted content each week, which has been pretty successful. Most of the users don’t know it’s automated nor would thy really care, they just want to see what the top pick was for that week.

Jim
#39. July 24th, 2009, at 8:15 PM.

I’ve been using Twuffer to promote local businesses that have supported my kart racing. Will it make a difference? I don’t know, but at least it’s free and does get attention.

Simon Wilby
#40. July 25th, 2009, at 8:33 AM.

Twitter automation sometimes really need to be automated. For example, a busy people can post to his blog about his/her updates then it will automatically posted to twitter and alike.

Moni
#41. July 25th, 2009, at 4:46 PM.

I agree with u that Twitter is becoming a big place for spamming.

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#42. July 28th, 2009, at 2:22 AM.

I think it’s dangerous to use those type of automation programmes. Once caught, we are likely to lose everything…

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#43. July 29th, 2009, at 2:46 PM.

Depending on the application, it can be useful. However, the problem with automation is that it takes away the social element of a site that relies on being social.

I don’t think it’s a black or white, right or wrong thing though. I think automated friend adding can be a problem, but automated posting from RSS or similar, can be handy for the end user sometimes.

Firany
#44. July 30th, 2009, at 6:58 AM.

I have some problems with Twitter. I don’t mean technical problems but the more
I think of it as a money-make-machine and a tool I’m starting to dislike this website.
There is something about blogging that makes it unique. There are blogs about almost
anything and many about nothing at all. Those blogs are just being promoted, so the
largest amount of people would generate traffic. From that traffic the creators are
being paid. And Twitter is just another tool of web marketing, making bad sites more
popular. That is why I don’t tweet.

Aamirz
#45. July 30th, 2009, at 7:49 AM.

I’ve used some of these automated system my self. I think it depends on what you do on you tweeter web. here you can make profile and add friends and can share you thoughts with each of them..

Neo
#46. July 30th, 2009, at 10:17 AM.

Automation will making a social networking tool like twitter like a machine which means it will make twitter useless.

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#47. July 31st, 2009, at 9:48 AM.

In my opinion, this would not be good. As Twitter increases spam.

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#49. August 1st, 2009, at 12:37 PM.

It’s no secret that Twitter is wildly popular these days. People all over the world are using Twitter to stay in touch with dozens/hundreds/thousands of people at a time. But the social aspect of Twitter is only one aspect of it’s power.

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#50. August 1st, 2009, at 11:22 PM.

Good article. After reading this article, I understood that twitter can be automated. But.. But.. automated twitter will miss that personal touch and feel ! So sorry guys i am not going to use it in my twitter!

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#51. August 2nd, 2009, at 3:56 AM.

This site is a great way to eliminate friends who aren’t following you or otherwise manage your friends: http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/

alex
#52. August 2nd, 2009, at 2:12 PM.

I don’t think that that automation is very good idea.

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#53. August 3rd, 2009, at 5:11 PM.

It’s important to keep personality in mind I’ve been softening a bit, and including personal antic dotes, this has created more conversation with followers. Humans are still reading your messages, helps to act human

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#54. August 3rd, 2009, at 7:46 PM.

We were automating our tweets – we use Compendium, but because of the approval process our followers were getting blasted with several tweets at a time – that’s no good. I HATE IT when companies (or other tweeps for that matter) fill up my entire feed. In my book (and I know many others – which is why you have “experts” saying not to do it) it gets you unfollowed in an instant.

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#55. August 4th, 2009, at 1:22 PM.

I personally think, automating your tweets will defeat the purpose of social networking. As you see, the entire site is now saturated with IM’ers, spammers, and scammers. That’s because of automation.

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#56. August 5th, 2009, at 8:51 AM.

Twitter is getting full of spam now! Loads of people just trying to make some quick cash of it and ruining it for all the people who want to use Twitter properly!

Paul
#57. August 5th, 2009, at 8:46 PM.

They just introduced a get paid per tweet program that anyone can sign up for. Have to say that the community of people I follow are all in my industry and I believe they don’t spam.

Gola
#59. August 6th, 2009, at 9:10 PM.

Anything which works and easy to access is good for me

Sam
#60. August 6th, 2009, at 9:37 PM.

Although FollowTwitter isn’t automated, it’s a great way to get followers once you’ve spent 5 minutes or so getting credits. It’s very user-friendly. I recommend you add it to your list.

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#61. August 13th, 2009, at 11:09 AM.

Nice post, I agree with u. TwitterFeed is a good automation service.

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#62. August 26th, 2009, at 12:40 PM.

this sounds interesting, coz now a days Twitter name has become synonymous with SMO. and optimizing it in ways so that you can get maximum advantage out f it is really wonderful

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#63. August 28th, 2009, at 8:03 PM.

Indeed Twitter isn’t as much of a draw for spammers as some other sites simply because its hard to get followers for spam accounts but Twitter will have to curtail its automation no doubt.

Paul
#64. August 28th, 2009, at 11:05 PM.

Here is the link though it seems it might be a little late http://sponsoredtweets.com/

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#65. September 1st, 2009, at 11:36 AM.

It’s quite obvious when people have automated their tweets and I, personally, usually stop following those people unless I find their links very useful/interesting. I know some people enjoy reading automated tweets though.

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#66. September 2nd, 2009, at 5:37 AM.

While i do not know the actual method Brute Force Twitter uses, i have a feeling that it could be kind of similar to the method that i use. While i have not really pushed to hard for extreme growth, when i put the effort in i can easily add 200+ new followers in a day. Consistently day after day.Thanks for the information on how you grew your twitter account

Yaroslav
#67. September 2nd, 2009, at 8:35 AM.

Automated twitter isn’t good idea because people are not interested in reading robot-written text without human touch.

marcus
#68. September 7th, 2009, at 2:31 PM.

I use twitterfeed and tweetlater. I also found that it’s very impportant to continue to tweet manually to give your followers some original content.

Ian Brodie
#69. September 16th, 2009, at 12:32 AM.

Automation of sorts is OK with me.

Scheduling tweets to go out when your followers are more likely to be on line.
Finding good people to follow based on interests etc.
Tweeting your blog posts (although I prefer to tweet directly with better copy on the tweet than just a generic message)

But spam is getting out of control. It seems unstoppable – even blocking doesn’t deter them.

Ian

Kyle
#70. October 15th, 2009, at 2:31 PM.

Don’t use twollow, they usually suggest spam followers even though they’re style of delivering followers is good compared to others. They mostly recommend bad followers… use manual way of adding instead

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#71. December 5th, 2009, at 4:07 PM.

may be good but if you post more content in a day it can flagged with spam.