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This post might help you realize sometimes money isn’t everything! Not even if you are popular on Twitter as Problogger . Many Spammers now days are hitting high profiles on Twitter to do some dirty money-favor exchange.
There is two parts to this topic
- It can hurt your reputation
- You make money and live happily ever after
It Can Hurt Your Reputation
If you are somebody who has high profile on Twitter let say 5.000 followers and more, you probably are going to be targeted person by spammers. They will ask you to advertise for them via tweets and in exchange you will get money. First of all ask your self, is this something I would tweet if “spammer” wouldn’t ask me? Is tweet you are asked to write too spamish ? If your answer to all questions is Yes just skip the whole BS and read “You Make Money And Live Happily Ever After”.
If your answer is NO, my advise to you is to stop look like Pig with $ $ sign eyes. Remember that sooner or later one of your followers will find out who the spammer is, they might even write about it and then what? Your twitter reputation is over, your blog reputation is over. Ok maybe not over, but many of people will un-follow you and think of you as somebody that has money and is just greedy. Oh and such people are most likely banned from Twitter or their accounts are suspended.
You Make Money and Live Happily Ever After
If you chose to make money you better hide that very good. That’s all I can say. I would feel guilty and considered my self spammer. Well at least you make money and live happily ever after….
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Horaayy..there are 13 comment(s) for me so far ;)
Yes i can see how spam can hurt the reputation on Twitter; how indeed it is in no ones’ interest to be viewed as a spammer or to be in anyway connected to spam because spam is really a four letter word now isnt it?
Useful tips, thanks for sharing, I have just set up my twitter acc. Let’s see,
Oh I was never aware of that thing. Well sometimes 3000 USD is big enough to do that simple thing..
I join tweeter but never really active, but people seem to keep on adding me as friends … not sure whether it’s spam or not.
Twittering is something that has been doing for a long time.
I think spams are one of the worst thing that has happened to Twitter and the sooner it is stopped the better.
Yup I agree. But twitter does attract a lot of spam though and trying to keep it clean is a nightmare. Just don’t accept anyone you don’t know to follow you on twitter. Keep it clean.
I am on twitter and stay in touch with a few there however it has not become a main stay in my online activities. That might change as my activities and focus changes.
Spam is always a nuisance no matter where it is, I have decided along time ago that it is there and I move past it with ease now. There are more important items that deserve my attention.
I agree with Marketing Man that you need not accept any one on twitter that you dont know, that way you have some control over the spam that can inundate.
Thanks for the information, I didn’t even know that and I’m tired of spam, I won’t accept whom I don’t know
And especially considering the fact that Twitter is all about relationship-building rather than direct sales, I can’t see why anyone would think to accept money for spamming on Twitter. Anyone who’s built up thousands of followers ought to be savvier than that.
I joined twitter a long time ago. I just never could get into it. Don’t have time, I guess.
I could see how it would be easy to spam though.
I can see how that would be bad – spamming on twitter is not cool.
Btw twitter is just Tweetwaster these days, all because making money.