DISQUS

617patrick · 2 months ago

In my opinion, Twitter has really become overrun with spammer, but Twitter made a huge move to fight it this week because you can now flag people as spam. I wrote about it in a blog post at http://www.the-linkedin-speaker.com/blog/2009/1...

Niland Mortimer · 2 months ago

Two of my college/grad school sons, ages 20 and 23, recently dropped out of Facebook, because its commercial aspects were taking too much time and they felt besieged with non-essential information. They felt their time was better spent "really" communicating with a few friends rather "virtually" communicating with many. Is this a trend?

Kari Korkiakoski · 2 months ago

I think that all great services will be finally overtaken by marketers. If not even created by them. And that leads to the new ideas by the ones that wants to run away from that. Evolution through escaping marketers:)

nealschaffer · 2 months ago

The internet marketing crowd are swooning over the social networking sites, and we are all being preyed upon. What differentiates how we feel about the spam is how they can communicate their spam using the functionalities of each site. For Twitter, I use a Direct Message spam filter and don't forward messages to my phone, so the spam doesn't even bother me anymore. For Facebook, I agree about the "Events" spam, but other than that I don't mind it. For me, I see an increase on spam on LinkedIn, and I think it is happening because of the wealthy demographic that is LinkedIn. The good thing is that LinkedIn, as well as Twitter, are serious about stopping spam. The problem now is Facebook: I don't see them doing anything about it, so I do see the situation there getting worse.

- Neal Schaffer

Brendan Tripp · 2 months ago

I don't know about you, but I don't follow anybody that I don't want to read ... the only "marketing" that I see on Twitter is the occasional pitch from somebody who typically is interesting. I have NEVER understood the "auto follow" approach.

Nancy Hinchliff · 2 months ago

Interesting question. As I was reading your rationale for whether or not twitter is overrun with markerters, I kept coming back to my question: "Isn't Social Media a marketing tool.?" I know what you mean about faceless avatars and "in you face" advertisers; I just click them all away. But, even if the person smiles back at you and doesn't push their product down your throat, aren't they still marketing? themselves, I mean. Building relationships is one of the best ways to market nowadays isn't it?

hardaway · 2 months ago

Yes. It's a very blurry line, because we are all developing a personal
brand. I don't mind the personal brands, although @guykawaski seems to have
gone over the line for me, but I do mind the corporate brands; I have no
wish to hear from @carlsjr.