Ahhhh viral would mean that an app catches and and becomes "infectious" and typically does so in a non-obvious, non-pushy-marketing fashion -- if you're doing something to cause users to drop you, to engender dislike, that's the exact OPPOSITE of "going viral." Just because you experience a burst of success doesn't qualify you as going viral, especially not if the immediately trailing effect is to erode any success and in fact kill off your userbase.
Either way, automatic posting is poor form. Look at Be-A-Magpie -- even with tweet approval, people still seem to hate it. Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us - (518) 641-1280 - Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Nicole Simon <nee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Even with the permission it is bad. > > Automatic posting to promote an app are the surest way to go viral - and > as resulting action to make users unfollow. Unless you provide a benefit > for me the reader, this *is* blatant advertisement. Same goes for > advertisement via DM, I have set up filters to automatically delete > those DM without seeing them. > > Provide an easy way for me to post from the app and I will do it if > encouraged, see twtpoll for this, i have used this and seen this > used several time and dont mind it - because it was the user > who chose to post, not the app. > > hth > Nicole > > -- > http://twitter.com/NicoleSimon // http://mit140zeichen.de/ > http://crueltobekind.org // http://beissholz.de > > skype: nicole.simon / mailto:nee...@gmail.com > phone: +49 451 899 75 03 / mobile: +49 179 499 7076 > > >
