How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup

Re:How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my... by wpietri on Friday May 09, 2014 @10:14AM (#7720938)

That's ridiculous.

People often write about making web stuff here. And their email addresses are often easy to find. Does that mean that we're all asking for outsourcing firms to send us "manual, personal" form emails via a 99.8% automated process, even if a marketroid blesses each one?

Of course not. That's spam. Similarly, if I post a question on Twitter, I'm asking my followers. If some random jackass butts in because it's profitable for them, that's spam too.

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Re:How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my... by bengali3 on Friday May 09, 2014 @11:16AM (#7721305)

There's a difference between holding up a 1x1 foot sign at a gathering of friends and planting a 1x1 foot sign on your lawn.

Are you expecting your tweets to be private or public?

If you publicly announce a problem, (and asking for public comments back.. ) then it is not spam if you get a relevant and appropriate message sent to you.

Scaping usernames here however is not comparable to the blog post's example

edit: misrepresentation as 'just another follower' is what i am against here.

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Re:How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my... by wpietri on Friday May 09, 2014 @06:28PM (#7723592)

My tweets are public. As are my posts here. From both, I am easily contactable. But if you are doing it in bulk to push your product, it is spam.

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Re:How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my... by cinitriqs on Friday May 09, 2014 @11:50AM (#7721499)

we're on a free internet (sort of)... for the good AND the bad ;)

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