You really need to take a look at Twitter’s updated TOS to make sure you don’t hose yourself and get your account(s) all cancelled for violating their definitions of Spamming.

Too many aggressive and/or naive marketers are guilty of at least one of these tactics – don’t you be one of them.

Read it all here: Twitter Rules

Here’s a summary list:

*Spam: You may not use the Twitter service for the purpose of spamming anyone. What constitutes “spamming” will evolve as we respond to new tricks and tactics by spammers. Some of the factors that we take into account when determining what conduct is considered to be spamming are:

• If you have followed a large amount of users in a short amount of time;
• If you have followed and unfollowed people in a short time period, particularly by automated means (aggressive follower churn);
• If you repeatedly follow and unfollow people, whether to build followers or to garner more attention for your profile;
  
• If you have a small number of followers compared to the amount of people you are following;
• If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates;
• If a large number of people are blocking you;
• The number of spam complaints that have been filed against you;
• If you post duplicate content over multiple accounts or multiple duplicate updates on one account
• If you post multiple unrelated updates to a topic using #
• If you post multiple unrelated updates to a trending or popular topic
• If you send large numbers of duplicate @replies
• If you send large numbers of unsolicited @replies in an attempt to spam a service or link
  
• If you repost other user’s content without attribution.
• If you have attempted to “sell” followers, particularly through tactics considered aggressive following or follower churn.
  

Your account may be suspended for Terms of Service violations if any of the above is true; accounts created to replace suspended accounts will be permanently suspended.

*Pornography: You may not use obscene or pornographic images in either your profile picture or user background. – well, that just goes without saying.

He’s giving away up to $500 to the top people who show they have some serious Twitter muscle.

Check it out here: Twitter Contest

I wanted to share this with everyone as a fun little experiment in the whole bizarre Twitter phenomenon – see my previous post for a more detailed explanation (and hilarious video). I guess Twitter is going to be around for a little while, you think?

Have you ever wondered how people send those personal direct messages after you follow them?

Well, here’s the answer. Most likely they’re using TweetLater to do the heavy lifting for them.

Tweet Later is a killer 3rd party Twitter application that has both free and paid versions.

Serious internet marketers who are using Twitter should utilize this immediately.

Twitter is fast becoming a powerful force in the social media world along with Facebook.

A word to the wise.  Use good judgement in your auto response message. I see too many
ignorant marketers pitching their sales page, breaking a fundamental rule of attraction internet marketing:

Building relationships and offering  something of value.

Invite them to check your YouTube channel, Facebook profile or blog for example.

Go sign up and manage all your twitter profiles today:

http://TweetLater.SimpleAndAutomated.com

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Cheers!

Terry