Comments on: SocialToo Now Policing Twitter

By: Raul Ramos y Sanchez

Raul Ramos y Sanchez — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:12:20 +0000

I looked this list over too, although I did not contact the folks.

Socialtoo reminds me of the crooked sheriff who makes a big show of rounding up the town drunks at election time but looks the other way when the big-time crooks are at work.

By: LGR

LGR — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:07:43 +0000

I have followed some of the people on the endautodms list and they are pretty nice folks. Not the evil spammers that SocialToo seems to want to make them into. I DM a couple of them and the reality is they did not even notice what SocialToo had done. They even picked up new followers because of it. Perhaps SocialToo should focus on their business instead of trying to dictate what Twitter users do.

By: LGR

LGR — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:04:18 +0000

You are probably right, it is an attempt from SocialToo to grab some attention. There certainly are a lot more worthy causes that people on Twitter could be campaigning against and in the grand scheme of things autoDM’s are pretty minor. I do have to wonder why SocialToo feels the need to shame people into changing their behaviour. SocialToo is welcome to do what it wants with its company and not provide an autoDM service, but Twitter has allowed autoDMs and until Twitter decides they are spam then they are part of the package.

When I follow someone I am giving them my permission to tweet me. An autoDM is just a tweet. Most are just thank you for following and do no harm. Some can even be fun to read.

By: Raul Ramos y Sanchez

Raul Ramos y Sanchez — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:55:31 +0000

Socialtoo’s paraih’s list would seem a lot more credible if I had not been put on it hours after I ended their service and blogged this Open Letter to Socialtoo http://snipurl.com/dc4lw

Putting me on the list was clearly petty and vindictive. I have less than 600 followers and all I did was have the temerity to tell Socialtoo CEO Jesse Stay that I preferred using Auto DMs to new followers. That got me branded as a spammer.

Thanks to my vocal reaction and the public support I received, Socialtoo appears to have taken me off the list.

Thanks for your post, Lee. Socialtoo does not have clean hands and their public persecution smacks of hypocrisy.

By: Rhett Soveran

Rhett Soveran — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:51:36 +0000

I guess I don’t understand that the big deal with auto DMs are? I don’t personally like them, but I accept them as part of the package if I am interested in following certain companies/people.

It’s a shame-based tactic, but I don’t really know that there is any shame in it. Frankly, it seems more like an attention grab then something actually worth campaigning against.