16 April 2009

If I mention “SEO” on Twitter, within minutes I have some new SEO expert on Twitter following me. Same thing happens for occasions when I mention “CPA” or “reel mower” or whatever. The experts come in hopes of me visiting their website or following their twitters and thus bumping their Twitter Score higher and, well, I guess something good comes of that.

I usually have a hardline policy of blocking the Twitter Trollers, especially when they are following a bazillion other twitters. (How is it possible to read so many Twitters? I barely keep up with a hundred-something.)

On rare occasion, though, they have content that I am actually interested in, and then I don’t mind it so much. But there’s got to be a better way to get my attention on their content rather than act interested in my twitters and not even say hello.

It’d be nice if these folks just sent an email that said something like, “Hey there, I saw your twitters about reel mowers and thought you might be interested in what we’re doing over here.” I would appreciate that tenfold more than a quiet pretentious leeching.