Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Jason Ross <algorythm () gmail com>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 13:26, Gary Warner <gar () askgar com> wrote:

> On one of the Black SEO websites there is a thread about how you can use
> Twitter to drive traffic to your ads on websites.  The fact that
> everyone uses "tinyurl" or equivalent means people are accustomed to
> going to any crap you send them, and the fact that its considered "rude"
> by some people not to "follow back", means that the SEO crowd makes
> money by having large followings.

see also: tweepme.com (which recently [read: since last night] upped the
number of 'free' accounts from 1K to 5K).

> My general rule of thumb with "follows" is to visit their page - see if
> they post things I'm interested in, or just recite their lunch menu and
> plane schedule - and then whether they are following dozens or
> thousands.

That's been how I've been processing them also, it seemed to make
the most sense.

--
jason

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