I don’t know about you guys, but my Twitter inbox is like a writhing pool of serpents – hissing furiously and spitting hot venomous claims of conspiracy, and of hilarious pictures of me that have somehow made it into online circulation.
Dear me, it’s exhausting! I’m kind of afraid to even go in there any more.
And yet there are so many musicians among us that continue to conscript this draconically contaminated vehicle as a means of sharing their content;
- perhaps in the hope that some poor lost soul being held hostage deep in the mirky depths of the Direct Message dungeon will muster his or her last ounce of strength, crawl out of the abyss, and click through to this lucky punter’s Soundcloud.
OK, so perhaps I’m getting a little carried away here. But in all seriousness, Automated DMs have got to be one of the worst and most implausible ways to try and entice potential fans to check out your tunes.
Not only is this the first (and potentially last) chance to win over a new fan, your DMs are reaching them at the absolute height of their suspicion – amidst the thunderous roar of spamming phishermen and marketers.
And in case none of this is setting off alarm bells, simply consider the fact that it takes only a handful of people to flag an account as spam and BAM – you’re in Twitter Jail!!! Detained indefinitely, with little or no chance of bail.
Is it worth it???
Come on people – we’ve all done our part to help clean up the planet, so now it’s time to pitch in and make Twitter a better place.
Say NO to Auto DMs!! 
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If you have a business don’t rely on Twitter. Look what happened to Myspace. Now Justin Timberlake has poured millions into a total rebuild of Myspace to make it much much better.
I was suckered in by a pack of Trolls into responding and in my defense Twitter banned me. I was even defending attacks on media presenters.
I was prior generating genuine content that people found interesting (no it wasn’t porn etc)
Because my interest was primarily politics I did follow hashtag streams for obvious reasons. I wasn’t a business and always had pure intent.
If you are running a business set up a few accounts, one for followers.
One for promotional info but don’t send out a gazillion tweets as people wont read it.
One disposable account for abusing trolls attacking you.
Always lead any potential customer away from Twitter over to your website and other media because Twitter don’t respect any contribution you may make.
When the trolls come switch to another account and let them have it as Twitter just delete their own content drivers
Twitter are listening to trolls Twitter self reporting algorithm because they are too dumb to work out they are cannibalizing their best & brightest contributors.
Have an exit strategy