(Left Photo Credit to: jakegarn)
I’m going to be honest – the term social media drives me nuts. Maybe it’s that the social media consultants ruined it for me, or just that social media isn’t as special as people think it is, but I think…
The Term Sucks !
Today I want to lay the groundwork for what I believe to be an important business lesson, which is that nothing new will fail to become old, and as an entrepreneur, you have to learn to manage the hype before…
Adopting Any New Strategy
As a Way of Life !
It’s because of the early adopters and their fanatical evangelism that I have to write this anyway, but here’s the deal – these are things they say you should do, or that they’ve enabled you to do through various tools, that you should stop doing…
Like Now !
1. Auto-DM
There’s a lot of back and forth about this. Some say it’s OK and a great way to introduce yourself to people. Others say that it’s annoying and spammy.
I Agree With the Latter !
It started because a tool made it fancy, but Twitter has been trying to stop it, and for good reason – it’s bad business! Save the autoresponders for email, and stop annoying people with your…
Spammy Auto-DM’s !
2. Twitter Chat
These hashtag chats are catching on like wildfire, and though I can see the value from a business getting strategy, the truth is that they are likely to annoy more people than they attract. Save your #blogchat for…
Yammer,
Convore,
or Skype, and
Leave the Rest of Us
Alone !
3. RT’ing Compliments
“‘RT @ AwesomeYou – Thanks so much for being so awesome. You totally rock!’ – Aww, thanks!”
Come on! A compliment should be received with humility, not as a way to brag to the rest of your followers to talk about…
How Awesome
You Are !
4. Ignoring People
I know it’s cool to pretend that you’re too special for your audience, but it makes you look like a jerk. Twitter shouldn’t be…
A Megaphone !
5. Auto-Spam
Nothing worse than Tweeting about an iPhone and getting a hundred tweets from people about getting a free iPad. We know it’s a scam, so…
Just Stop it !
6. Tweeting About Your Post 10 Times
If you Tweeted twice and people didn’t read it, they probably won’t read it after the, 3rd, 4th or 10th tweet. You look pathetic when you do this.
Stop Begging
for Attention !
7. Talking About “My Tribe”
Seth Godin made the Tribe concept a neat thing to talk about, but unfortunately everyone seems to think they now have a tribe. Don’t talk about me like I’m some sort of sheep in your flock just because…
I Happen to Comment
On Your Blog from
Time to Time !
OK, I think I’m done. I shouldn’t have to say these things, but with the social media pushers setting a bad example, I wanted to set you straight.
Stay Clear,
The Bad Blogger
Also Known As “The Tweet Blogger”
Article by Wong Chendong aka The Bad Blogger
This bad boy delivers the oohs, ahhs, and woes of money matters like any man would... rough. He's frank, to the point and likes it raw. There's no sugar coating here, except for the taste of sweet success and the beautiful women who love it just as much. TheBadBlogger.com is a blog pictured and accented with the likes of lovely ladies and while the dames tend to be a delightful distraction, The Bad Blogger always takes care of business first.Find out how you can improve your marketing tactics, money matters and blogging techniques by Subscribing to his RSS Feed to get the latest update of his blog post or go direct to his blog at www.TheBadBlogger.com. You may reprint this post provided you leave the content, links, author, and "about the author" section at the end intact.
has written 255 awesome articles for us at The Bad Blogger
Twitter: @@TheBadBlogger | Facebook
{ 42 comments… read them below or add one }
Hi Wong!
I agree with 6 of the above 100%.
The only one I don’t necessarily agree with is #6, and the only reason I say this, is that you can tweet about a blog post 10 times, within the span of 30 days and it wouldn’t be obnoxious. Tweets are incredibly rapid, especially if you’re following over 1,000 people. I miss a lot of tweets and blog posts and I actually like that people re-tweet their posts.
On another note, I think Twitter should do away with DM’s all together. All they’re used for now is spam. Just get rid of ‘em!
Neat post!
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
June 30, 2011 at 8:39 am
Thanks Morgan for coming by reading and commenting on my blog, anyway as for number 6 I’m actually referring to a single post being tweet multiple times in a day not a month, if it’s a month, that’s okay for me. Sorry if my post did not explain properly about a day or month, hope you understand…
Ooooh! Then yes, that definitely makes sense and I agree! =)
Twitter: themeekwatcher
July 26, 2011 at 7:31 pm
I have the same thoughts as Morgan, but for number 6 I think it’s tolerable to tweet a single post at most twice in a day.
My rationale for this is mostly about time-zone differences. I mean you shouldn’t be damned for tweeting once in the morning and another in the evening for a single post right? Just so that your followers from the other side of the world can see your update easier. Just my two cents here, nothing more.
Ramcel recently posted..Are Your CommentLuv Backlinks Being Stolen by Google?
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
July 26, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Yes, I do agree tweeting twice a day but more then that could be not tolerable…
Wong Chendong aka The Bad Blogger recently posted..7 Questions to Answer in Your Sales Copy!
#3 drives me crazy too! No one cares! I wouldn’t be surprised if those comments are actually sent from a secondary account the person has made solely for the purpose of creating such crap tweets.
Quo recently posted..Build Muscle Fast: Workout plan to Accelerate Your Muscle Gain
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
June 30, 2011 at 8:43 am
Ya, I thought so sometime, thinking someone might just have multiple accounts and create crap tweet just to promote something. And this is something I didn’t like, I mean crap tweet has no value…
Any way, thanks for coming by reading and commenting. Talk soon…
Are you secretly trying to destroy it? This is what Twitter is all about. Spam.
Cristian recently posted..Glorious Tip of the Week #1
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
June 30, 2011 at 4:15 pm
No, I’m not destroying it, I’m trying to build it to a better media rather then spam media. You don’t agree with my points?
Yes, I agree with most of your points, I was just messing with you. I really get bothered by people how use auto direct messages. On the other hand retweeting your older posts once in a while it’s fine as far as I’m concerned.
Cristian recently posted..Glorious Tip of the Week #1
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
June 30, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Retweeting is fine for me too, but retweet several time in an hour that’s almost call “SPAM”
I only spotted this post because you asked to make sure it was ok to use my picture (thank you for asking) and I love all of them – except I have a bit of an issue with number 4… I frequently ignore people not as a ego-building choice but just because there are so many other presses on my time that ‘social media’ contact from strangers easily takes a back seat to. Thus I ignore out of necessity… your list should acknowledge that reality for many as well and not just throwing a bunch of innocent tweeters under the bus. Love the pic by the way.
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
June 30, 2011 at 4:23 pm
I was searching for a photo using the keyword Dumpster and your photo came out on the first page of the search in deviantart. And it immediately took my attention most probably because there was a sexy girl in the middle of the dumpster, but thanks for approving me for using your photo, though I do like it very much.
Anyway, #4 is just my personal view to what I had experience in twitter, but I think… either way, there is always a reason for it. But still I prefer to reply rather then ignore….
Oh and thanks for visiting my blog, reading and commenting, it’s nice to know you.
Don’t just promote blog post or products but communicate with your followers and yes you are right that we must always thanks our followers for retweeting our tweets too. By this you can get good friends with long term relations ..
Atulperx recently posted..Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials : 10 Tutorials For Making Pictures Better With Photoshop
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
June 30, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Ya, ur right, though to be honest I don’t really communicate much in twitter nowadays because of too much stupid tweet that actually bores me out, but still I do reply and comment on certain tweet, and hopefully this post will be retweet to as many tweeter user as possible.
Anyway, I’m still looking for something that could actually see who had retweet my post, if you have any solution to that, it will be great to know…
Twitter: earningdiary
July 1, 2011 at 2:27 pm
I will try to avoid those mistakes you have mentioned in your post.Thanks for sharing such a wonderful post.
Lakhyajyoti recently posted..EarningDiary Monthly Income Report June 2011
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
July 2, 2011 at 12:04 am
No problem and thanks for coming by reading my post and commenting…
Twitter: ExtremeJohn
July 1, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Thanks for sharing this informative post. I’ll try to keep this in mind whenever I’m tweeting. Your post makes sense.
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
July 2, 2011 at 12:06 am
No problem, and thanks for letting me know I did pass the “sense” test
Sometime I thought my post was out of nowhere, glad that you tell me it make sense….
Hi Wong,
Or use my number one twitter rule: Do not have Twitter, and I will probably not get me one. I don’t have time, patience or inclination.
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
July 2, 2011 at 12:07 am
Well, if that’s you, consider it done because you don’t have time patient or inclination.
Twitter: sanjaykhemlani
July 3, 2011 at 7:27 pm
You’re right! We know it’s a spam if you tweet 100 times. We know its spam if your selling your followers. SO please be real, glad you posted this. Now I have to share this with my friends.
Btw, what kind of image plugin do you use? Image loads when I scrolls down..pretty cool.
sanji recently posted..How to create a Push Button Effect in Photoshop and CSS
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
July 7, 2011 at 2:48 am
That’s call lazy load, it comes with the theme of this blog, if you want to know more about what this theme can do, just click the top header banner and you will learn more… hey sorry if this reply came late as I’m now in a small village in Thailand and I hardly get a good internet connection… hope you don’t mind…
I think got many followers from following is not meaning at all !
TechSkyer recently posted..Top Iphone Apps for Productivity
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
July 7, 2011 at 2:50 am
Yes… sometime I had so many followers… but believe me… only one quarter is truly following…
How about auto-follow.. Many people use this feature and you can always spot them of having a very high number of people they follow… I don’t think it has any value…
SEO Canada recently posted..Google Reaches the Billion Monthly Unique Visitors
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
July 7, 2011 at 2:54 am
That’s right… I mean Auto-Follow… do you know who follow who? That’s just another stupid thing to do seriously…
#4 annoys me the most. If you tweet or send DM to somebody and don’t get reply, I think that is quite irritating. #3 is also annoying. Re-tweeting your own compliments shows how crazy you are to get attention, but in reality it causes people to avoid you.
Shree recently posted..Google Plus or FaceBook- Which is better?
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
July 9, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Haha… nice one… and ya in reality people will avoid if you try to get attention by re-tweeting it…
Wong, I’ve gotta ask, how is a hashtag chat or #blogchat any different from chats in your stream that don’t include you. I mean twitter is where you socialize in real-time. People chat. Is the fact that there’s a hashtag within the tweet that makes it annoying? I sat in on my first #chat a few nights ago. (My twitter account is almost a year old) Within that hour, I tweeted about 10 times. If I weren’t in the chat I may have tweeted more or less depending on the conversations I got involved in. How are hashtag chats and just chatting different? And if we shouldn’t be chatting at all, then what are we suppose to be doing?
Vanita
Vanita recently posted..Who Else Wants to Tweet from an RSS Feed?
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
July 10, 2011 at 9:39 pm
In the marketing world there’s a way to socialize in twitter and what you have say is for personal usage which to me is all normal, but if you are trying to use your twitter account to do marketing then you should be doing marketing rather then chatting…
I guess it all depends on who you’re marketing to. I appreciate what you’re saying from a corporate standpoint though. I personally don’t follow corporations. It’s the small business owners that hire me, people who are just like me, and so I use twitter to build relationships. Building relationships, for me, is chatting with those in my network. Those in my network have referred me to many local clients, though I never mention my services. (I don’t even have a services page.) I haven’t had downtime in 6 months.
BTW, installing the tweetmeme button will show you who’s re-tweeted your posts. I’ve found that clicking the tweet count bubble will take me to tweetmeme and show me a list.
Vanita recently posted..Who Else Wants to Tweet from an RSS Feed?
i have kept twitter just to monitor breaking news . still strictly follow facebook to connect with my readers …
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
July 11, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Well… if you ask me I still prefer to use facebook to connect because there is more option then just tweet…
Hi…Thanks for sharing this information about twitter mistakes…Thanks too for making me aware of it…
I dont mind the #3, because it is “other” people that are saying something about you. It is just my opinion but that is a little bit different than you talking about yourself. Its similar to a testimonial! I do agree with your other points.
-Jean
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
July 14, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Well… too many awesome testimonial will alert “strange” in other people’s mind… I mean there are so many fake testimonial out there… so are this one real…?
There are alot of fake testimonials you are right, and you would be correct that too much is a bad thing.
-Jean
Twitter: WebTrafficCafe
October 24, 2011 at 11:28 am
I see the point, Wong.
However, Twitter is my largest referral traffic generation source and all thanks to an auto DM I send to my new followers.
It just depends on what the message says… Is it about you or them?
Ana
PS Wanted to make sure you saw your blog on my CommentLuv enabled blog list!
Increase Web Traffic recently posted..Free SEO Report
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
October 24, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Well, the message itself does makes the difference. but who was it send to is another story, I do not count on DM, it is almost a numbers game which is a 50/50 kind of thing.
I rather use a social medium that focus on certain niche to get traffic rather then using a 50/50 method, though you might have a way to do it, may be you can direct me on how you do it using DM…
Wong Chendong aka The Bad Blogger recently posted..Angela Yeung Wing aka Angelababy – Can You Resist Her, She Is So Sexy, Beautiful, Gorgeous, Cute and Adoring, I Bet You Won’t Even Blink Your Eyes!
Twitter: ajnabiicom
March 2, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Hi wong,
Great points in your post, i was confused when i saw a blogger post tweeted 100 times i was shocked how they did ? Then i check their twitter accounts and i got my answer lol. Its called spam! manual is good that our readers retweet our posts
this post Indicated at the top tweet 3 times thats fair 
Thanks.
Ajnabii recently posted..3 Efficient Offline Marketing Tactics
Twitter: TheBadBlogger
March 4, 2012 at 12:01 am
Well, I only twit twice a day at most… and thanks for checking out my content
Wong Chendong aka The Bad Blogger recently posted..8 Types of Facebook Hoaxes You Must Avoid At All Cost!
{ 8 trackbacks }