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Many people are becoming more immune to advertising in general and when the execution is something as "junky" as Magpie tweets, I'd have to wonder what sort of success they would have in getting exposure for the product. Maybe it has a higher click thru than I assume, but all I have seen on Twitter is people complaining and threatening to unfollow those who who subscribe.
Thanks for posting such a timely issue, nicely done.
Either way whether Magpie lives or dies, others will follow and most likely learn lessons and improve the response.
It will be interesting to see how they deal with this. :O)
By the way, how's your Thanksgiving Day?
Thanksgiving was wonderful. I had 16 people over for dinner. It was a gathering of new and old friends. :O) How was yours?
and thank you so much for the kind words, you made my day. :O) ophelia
and add me if you join twitter. i am "ophelia" on twitter. ;O)
But now I will try it.
Thanks for visiting! :O) Ophelia
I had a question of sorts.I ask, because I want to know if it is just the people who have found me on Twitter or if this applies to more of the masses?
Is it only certain groups on Twitter who do one or all of the following:
1. They follow you, you follow back--they DM you with a generic blurb and have their blog or some other advertisement?
2. They seem like a "human" when they follow you and after looking at some tweets you think, "okay, I 'll follow em' back" (I just am leery of spammers), but then you start to notice many tweets contain their products they are selling?
3. Or all of a sudden they are talking about "giveaways" en masse?
4. Or if you read someone's blog and tell them they start spamming you with signing up as a subscriber regularly?
5. Is there a lot of multi level marketers on there, or is it my imagination?
This is DEFINITELY NOT all of the people I follow/followers, but it seems the ones who fall into those categories tweet the most. And if it is just me, oy! I need help in finding new twitterers :-)
2. you can always unfollow someone if it gets annoying. most of the time i ignore it.
3. it could be the holidays and some PR people get products to send out on Twitter.
4. you can always add them to your "junk mail" list, or ask them politely to stop.
5. there are quite a few multi level marketers, not your imagination :O)
hope this helps. the more you tweet the more you reach. most people are not on it all day/night and might miss the first tweet about a product, blog etc.
I don't mind promotion of some sort when you have established rapport, it's the ones who do it in their first correspondence--just not the warm fuzzies or a conversation starter for me.
And, I have never in my life, in one place, seen so many people who are marketers.
BUT, I am not complaining all that much, cuz I 've met some interesting, funny and really nice people on Twitter .I also can find myself sucked into its vortex for hours some days.
There haven't been any lately, but you know they are refining their "delivery" to be less intrusive, so maybe in a week or two we might be seeing a fresh batch.
We are more likely to "unfollow" someone on Twitter because we really don't have a personal connection other than the microblogs, which is why anyone using Magpie should be aware of, you will loose followers at a very fast pace.
thanks for visiting and commenting! :O) ophelia
:O) thanks for visiting and commenting! ophelia
Let me try and see that how much it can be usefull for my blog traffic and for business purpose too!
thank you!