Automation: Social Media’s Cardinal Sin Or Saving Grace? (Part 3 of 3)
| Posted in All Things Twitter, Making Money | Posted on 12-08-2009
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So you have a Twitter profile! Congratulations! Now what are you going to do with it? In my opinion Twitter is an amazing tool. A tool that has the potential to drive massive amounts of FREE traffic to something – a website, a blog, a landing page, a webinar/teleseminar, etc. So allow me to ask the question again.
Now that you have a twitter profile what are you doing with it?
Did you know that over 60% of everyone that signs up for a Twitter account today will send only one tweet and then never log back onto Twitter? According to a Nielson Wire study there’s exponential growth with Twitter, but not without it’s challenges:
Check out the full Nielson Wire study here.
When I first read that report a month or two ago the first thought that entered my mind was “They leave because they don’t see the benefit of Twitter to them personally or to their business. To many people just see it as a stupid waste of time.”
That was a sobering thought, because I’ve already demonstrated how I used Twitter exclusively to increase site traffic to this blog by over 3,697.39% in one week alone!
What I find is that most people still don’t see the direct correlation of how to get their Twitter followers to another source of information about them or their business – such as a website or blog.
If that’s where you find yourself I’ve got great news for you! That’s the easy part! The video above demonstrates one of the ways I direct traffic to this blog. It’s my primary method in fact.
It’s 100% automated so all I have to do is put a minimal amount of time and effort to set up the software because once I click start I just forget about it for the week. It’s that simple and that powerful.
For more information about this software including pricing, just click on the yellow Twitter Bird icon to the right of the video above or on the link below. Enjoy!
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Thanks for alerting me which software that was. I’ve been looking for it because I absolutely hate it.
I don’t mind using automation to find people to follow…but to send them messages is Twitter SPAM. Plain and simple.
It worked on me at first, the first couple of times. But now I see this in my timeline ALL the time. Then I look at the profile and sure enough…they have 100 tweets with the @whoever 4 or 5 times.
When I see that in someone’s profile, I never follow back because they aren’t using twitter to communicate. They are using twitter to give the appearance of personal communication when it couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Sure, you may use the software responsibly, but the vast majority of folks don’t.
My prediction is that a lot of other people feel the same way as me about this topic. They are fooled by it a couple of times and then see a trend. Then, when they see it more and more, they just get resentful.
Why resenful??? Well, because people who use that are invading MY timeline. Now I’m weeding through BS tweets instead of the people I CHOSE to follow.
Again…I’ll be surprised if you publish this but I just needed to get that off my chest.
Phew!!! I feel better now. LOL
Jason, thanks for the thought provoking comment. I have a rule that unless something is intentionally obscene I allow the comment. Just because we disagree doesn’t mean I don’t respect the comment.
Most of the comment was just your opinion and you are certainly entitled to it! What I would differ on opinion though is the concept of not using twitter to communicate if you use a software like this. I would say that may be true in some cases, but in my opinion I’m just trying to get out the same message a lot. Unless I have a HUGE following like Oprah I can’t just tweet something one time and have mass exposure.
I have a personal use account that allows me to communicate in a one on one basis with people. What this software does for me is allow me the ability to communicate the same message to a lot of people while relatively having few followers. That’s just leverage – but again I think we will probably just disagree on that point. I wish you luck with your Twitter experience though.
Thanks for being one of the reasons that people leave Twitter.
I don’t believe I’m one of the reasons people leave Twitter Anonymous. According to the actual facts and statistics, people leave because they can’t see how Twitter can benefit them. That normally has to do with the inability of people to get past their perception that Twitter is just a big fat waste of time. I believe the number one reason is that people can’t see how Twitter can impact their business pursuits at all.
In these three videos I just show how I was able to increase traffic to my blog by almost 4000% in one week. Like it or not, it’s effective.
I don’t mind if you don’t agree but let’s get real – I’m not the reason people stay or leave on Twitter. I’m one person with .000000000001% of the tweet traffic (and that’s probably being overly generous in my estimate). I do hope that you enjoy your Twitter experience though. Take care.
Gabe,
Thanks for sharing this information about this software and why you feel it offers value. I can tell from other comments made that the use of this software, or the misuse of this software is causing some real concern. I will be following this more to see what is the best solution. I know for myself, I am concerned with the amount of time required of me to personally answer my social networking followers and frankly, I can’t keep up with it. Take care my friend!
[...] Where I got this method: Part 1: TwitterProdigy.com: Tweet Adder Part 2: TwitterProdigy.com: Mass Twitter Marketing Software [...]
Hey Gabe. I completely agree with using Twitter adder. It is the best and I have bought and tried all of the others and settled on Tweet adder. Because automating the targeting and following function of Twitter saves me 4 hours of hard work every day.
However, Tweep drives me absolutely freaking nuts and I have developed a policy to block people using it. Why, because with multiple accounts over 10,000 followers I get nailed by Tweep users and I am back to wasting valuable time again sorting through my @replies timeline and this is what I was trying to eliminate in the first place.
On another note, you have an awesome blog. Excellent work and I hope it makes you a mint.
Thanks much for this nicely written post.
Teleseminars are really very helpful and i always look for it on the internet.*;.