{"id":1952,"date":"2017-02-15T07:40:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2017-02-28T07:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T07:46:56","slug":"please-dont-be-one-of-the-annoying-twitter-dm-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/please-dont-be-one-of-the-annoying-twitter-dm-spammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Please don’t be one of the annoying twitter DM spammers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I get that having a large following entails a certain amount of spammy DM’s but if you’re one of those trying it please think carefully. I’ll explain why…<\/p>\n

I receive roughly 20-50 spam DM’s a day and maybe 3 or 4 real DM’s a month. The ratio of spam to legit is ginormous!<\/p>\n

I grew up in the age where filtering spam emails from real emails was once a real struggle and it wasn’t uncommon for me to receive a hundred or more spam emails per day. I loathed that part of the internet.<\/p>\n

Thankfully that’s all moved on and my email inbox is clear of spam pretty much all the time. It seems that Twitter DM’s are now the part of being online I loathe.<\/p>\n

\"You<\/p>\n

I have never and will never click on any link or business that sends me a spam DM. I don’t care if you’re offering even 100% off, I refuse to ever be a reason why DM spammers seem to think it works. It will NEVER work on me and you do your business harm by sending me them.<\/p>\n

Many people will unfollow and even block a spam DM account. Reaching out is good, that’s what hashtags are for. Sending a spammy DM is the worst way possible to reach your audience.<\/p>\n

It’s sad when I see local companies like\u00a0Old Bridge Antiques<\/a>\u00a0sending me a spam DM within seconds of following them. Why? Why risk your account being blocked or unfollowed? I just unfollowed you with 8 accounts. Not a lot I know but it makes me feel better \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

If you have very few followers then this isn’t really much of an issue but as your follower count grows it becomes a bigger and bigger problem.<\/p>\n

Please, think before you set up an automated DM script!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I get that having a large following entails a certain amount of spammy DM’s but if you’re one of those trying it please think carefully. I’ll explain why…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}