Comments on: Find Potential Customers Tweeting to be Found http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/find-potential-customers-tweeting-to-be-found/2008/09/08/ SEO SEM and the world of search marketing Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:27:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Adam http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/find-potential-customers-tweeting-to-be-found/2008/09/08/#comment-60456 Adam Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:01:32 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/find-potential-customers-tweeting-to-be-found/2008/09/08/#comment-60456 I agree and I'm surprised I haven't received any spam messages on twitter. Would definitely like to know if anyone has and see how they were generated. I agree and I’m surprised I haven’t received any spam messages on twitter. Would definitely like to know if anyone has and see how they were generated.

]]> By: Kenton Newby http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/find-potential-customers-tweeting-to-be-found/2008/09/08/#comment-60324 Kenton Newby Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:25:31 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/find-potential-customers-tweeting-to-be-found/2008/09/08/#comment-60324 The level of "spammy-ness" also has to do with how close a match there is between what the person tweeted and what the offer is. So you say a contest? Okay, sure...why not. But a blatant "come buy my stuff" sales pitch? Ummm...big no-no. And that's regardless of whether it's done manually or with a bot. Case in point: The Internet marketing event I just went to this past weekend was something I didn't even know about until I got a random email from the coordinators. They saw a post I added on another site and sent me an email about it. Unsolicited? Yes. Good match? Yes. So I went, it was cool and I plan to attend more. But if they had kept hounding me about it via email I would have been more than slightly annoyed. The same is true for tweets. If someone keeps talking about "vacation", "need a vacation", etc and keeps getting auto-tweets, that's definitely spammy. Kenton The level of “spammy-ness” also has to do with how close a match there is between what the person tweeted and what the offer is. So you say a contest? Okay, sure…why not. But a blatant “come buy my stuff” sales pitch? Ummm…big no-no. And that’s regardless of whether it’s done manually or with a bot.

Case in point: The Internet marketing event I just went to this past weekend was something I didn’t even know about until I got a random email from the coordinators. They saw a post I added on another site and sent me an email about it. Unsolicited? Yes. Good match? Yes. So I went, it was cool and I plan to attend more.

But if they had kept hounding me about it via email I would have been more than slightly annoyed. The same is true for tweets. If someone keeps talking about “vacation”, “need a vacation”, etc and keeps getting auto-tweets, that’s definitely spammy.

Kenton

]]> By: Jim Kukral http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/find-potential-customers-tweeting-to-be-found/2008/09/08/#comment-60312 Jim Kukral Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:37:05 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/find-potential-customers-tweeting-to-be-found/2008/09/08/#comment-60312 I think when you add the bot to it, yes. Without the bot, no. Big difference in my opinion. I just emailed about 300 of my associates... one at a time with personal emails, but all with the same-ish message. If I would have automated it to people I didn't know, yeah, it would have been spam. But since I did it "manually" and I knew the people already, it's not spam. But your point is good. Business should be doing this in some capacity. I say forget the bots. Get an intern. I think when you add the bot to it, yes. Without the bot, no. Big difference in my opinion.

I just emailed about 300 of my associates… one at a time with personal emails, but all with the same-ish message. If I would have automated it to people I didn’t know, yeah, it would have been spam. But since I did it “manually” and I knew the people already, it’s not spam.

But your point is good. Business should be doing this in some capacity. I say forget the bots. Get an intern.

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