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Dear Etsy-Twitterers
To me it seems there are lots of 'good guides' out there, to help your little etsy business grow. These guides mention twitter to create attention on what you are doing. This is, first, a good thing.
Twitter is a great tool to give you a face, give information to actual or future customers. People, who are interested in your work, can follow your progress, your pains, your fun in what you are doing.
But twitter is also bad. It's a bad tool for you and your reputation, if you are trying to get people's attention in a pestering and aggressive way. For instance: To follow a lot of twitterers you don't know, you obvisiously don't want to read. (Because no normal person can read the tweets of 2000 and more twitterers, because they twitter in a language you didn't speak, because you've never heard of them before and they didn't have heard of you before.)
Most twitterers get mailed about new followers. One thing you know about!
This is what you are hoping for: "Hey, this guy is following me. Let's look who it is. Do I know him? Ah no. But there's a link in his profile. Let's see. Maybe there's more about this guy on his website. A maybe he is even a nice guy. Let me follow him to see what he is writing about."
THIS. IS. SPAM!
Please read Olivers Page about social spamming before you are following the 'good advice' of some 'helpful guys'.
I really like(d) etsy and handmade things a lot. But I hate being spammend, even when spam comes from a small, friendly business.
After having got spammed from a couple of etsy-sellers in a few days, I'm now blocking every new follower with an etsy-association without a second look. And others do so, too. If you don't want to ruin the reputation of every single etsy seller on twitter, stop following twitteres aggressivly to gain attention.
And if your business is 'helping people to make money', your 'good deed' makes your spam not less spammy!
From: CraftyCoach
From: CraftyCoach
Twitter is a great tool to give you a face, give information to actual or future customers. People, who are interested in your work, can follow your progress, your pains, your fun in what you are doing.
But twitter is also bad. It's a bad tool for you and your reputation, if you are trying to get people's attention in a pestering and aggressive way. For instance: To follow a lot of twitterers you don't know, you obvisiously don't want to read. (Because no normal person can read the tweets of 2000 and more twitterers, because they twitter in a language you didn't speak, because you've never heard of them before and they didn't have heard of you before.)
Most twitterers get mailed about new followers. One thing you know about!
This is what you are hoping for: "Hey, this guy is following me. Let's look who it is. Do I know him? Ah no. But there's a link in his profile. Let's see. Maybe there's more about this guy on his website. A maybe he is even a nice guy. Let me follow him to see what he is writing about."
THIS. IS. SPAM!
Please read Olivers Page about social spamming before you are following the 'good advice' of some 'helpful guys'.
I really like(d) etsy and handmade things a lot. But I hate being spammend, even when spam comes from a small, friendly business.
After having got spammed from a couple of etsy-sellers in a few days, I'm now blocking every new follower with an etsy-association without a second look. And others do so, too. If you don't want to ruin the reputation of every single etsy seller on twitter, stop following twitteres aggressivly to gain attention.
And if your business is 'helping people to make money', your 'good deed' makes your spam not less spammy!
@CraftyCoach ah. seems I've found the source of the etsy-spam followers. stop this damn spam. you're blocked!
From: CraftyCoach
@Felicea Apparently Felicia thinks because I followed her that I'm a spammer. Anyone EVER receive any spam from me?
@CraftyCoach if lots of etsy users start following others without any reason, yes this is spam. Read: http://tinyurl.com/5pgq7s
From: CraftyCoach
@Felicea I guess that doesn't apply to me because I have a reason, I like to help other crafters sell more. Any1 ever benefited from my help
@CraftyCoach ah, then your reason is .. business? yours? well.. sounds like - surprise - spam. bye.
