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Still wondering why people follow me on Twitter

January 15, 2010
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Last year, I wrote a couple of posts explor­ing the reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter:

Won­der­ing why people fol­low me on Twit­ter?
The reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter

Well a year has passed since I did that basic research, and Twit­ter has been ‘improved’ in the mean­time — revised ReTweet func­tion, Lists, new desktop […]

Tagged as: Communications, followers, Following, Marketing, PR, Social Media, Spam, twitter

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Getting Twitter Spam? Here’s how I deal with it

November 5, 2009
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This is the second part of a post series I star­ted a few days ago, deal­ing with Twit­ter spam.

How to avoid becom­ing a Twit­ter spam­mer [part one]
How to deal with Twit­ter spam [this article]

What got me think­ing about it was the recent spate of incom­ing DM tweets from trus­ted people I fol­low. I received another one […]

Tagged as: DM, OAuth, password, privacy, Security, Social Media, Spam, twitter, Twitter Spam, Username

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How to avoid becoming a Twitter spammer, the easy way

November 2, 2009
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been receiv­ing spam on Twit­ter from trus­ted people I fol­low.
It’s not that they’ve all been over­come by the need to mon­et­ize their Twit­ter accounts (there, I said mon­et­ize in a blog post, I’m doomed), rather, they’ve fallen vic­tim to diabolically-crafted account phish­ing schemes and their Twit­ter accounts are now […]

Tagged as: OAuth, password, privacy, Security, Social Media, Spam, twitter, Twitter Spam, Username

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The reasons why people follow me on Twitter

March 4, 2009

In the pre­vi­ous post, I star­ted to answer the ques­tion “Why people fol­low me on Twit­ter.” I went through some back­ground, reviewed my tweet his­tory, and wrote a bit about my exper­i­ence using Twit­ter’s Dir­ect Mes­sage (DM) to ask the ques­tion.
This follow-on post gets into the actual reas­ons and num­bers.
Over the three months I conducted […]

Tagged as: Communications, followers, Following, Marketing, PR, Social Media, Spam, twitter

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Wondering why people follow me on Twitter?

February 27, 2009

About 6 months ago I got curi­ous as to why people were fol­low­ing me on Twit­ter. Basic­ally I asked them… and then found out some rather inter­est­ing things, both about why they were fol­low­ing me and also about the evolving etiquette around Twit­ter inter­ac­tions.
This has turned into a two-part post. Ini­tially I was going to […]

Tagged as: Communications, followers, Following, Marketing, PR, Social Media, Spam, twitter

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