Chad, the value is 1) I get to show a token of appreciation for them following me - even if I can't listen to everyone I am at least willing to give them the opportunity to be discovered, and most importantly, 2) I want them to have the ability to communicate with me via DM if they want to. Note that this does not mean I want Sales or marketing messages from them. I can't tell you the number of people I've heard get mad because someone with x number of followers won't follow them back. I'm just giving them that good feeling inside that at least I'm willing to try.
However, as we've all said, the downside is the marketers and sales people and scammers are all taking advantage of this now. Yes, I unfollow and block the people that do it, but doing so up to hundreds of times daily is a huge waste of time! This is just one way of using Twitter. I chose to use it this way because I can. Apps should take this into consideration, be considerate, and let me (and hundreds of thousands of others) keep using it this way if I want to by providing opt-out on DMs I don't want to receive. @Jesse On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jesse, > > If I may ask (and I promise I'm not trying to make this personal, I > really am just curious), what is the value of following 14,000 people? > Surely you know anyone of them could send you a DM at any time? How > do you keep up with them all? > > Basically, what is your reason for following a large number of people? > (I have heard answers from other people following large volumes, but I > am curious about your use-case). > > -Chad > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Jesse Stay <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Nicole Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Jesse Stay <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> If you don't have the time to do it, then hire somebody to do it. > >>> > >>> Am I really hearing this right? So now *I* have to lose money because > >>> I'm getting spam??? Yeah right. > >> > >> If you do not know how to use the tools, then please use a manual. There > >> are enough > >> basic twitter books around. > > > > What does that have to do with me paying to stop receiving spam? Oh, you > > mean purchase your book. > > > >>> > >>> How do I switch off receiving DMs? I get DMs no matter what. I can > turn > >>> off notifications, but not DMs. > >> > >> Twitter really has not a lot of options. If you do not know how to do > >> that, you obviously never looked. > >> > >> http://twitter.com/account/notifications > > > > I don't see anywhere on there that says "turn off my DMs". I see plenty > of > > "don't send me e-mail or SMS when I receive DM". Nothing turns off my > DMs. > >> > >> May I ask what you do on the _developper_ list if you do not even know > >> this much? > > > > Careful taking this argument personal - see my comment above. > > Jesse >
