Twitter hash tag abuse & spam, are you guilty?
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interesting points, agree with most of them but i do find direct messages helpful…. mostly
hehehe I’m going to start using hashatgs like that! looks interesting!

To answer the question in your closing post, why do we hate automated DMs so much? It’s because automated messages are totally effortless and meaningless. I don’t care about http://omggggfreeeipadzz.com, and I don’t need everyone to thank me for following them. Really, I don’t. I follow people if they provide good content on Twitter, and pretty much NEVER if they’re a Twitterbot / automated tweeter.
But yeah, this is a great article. It reflects most of my personal views on hashtag abuse.
Cheers,
Trevor Sullivan

The thing I forgot to add is that the DMs I get are actually useful, and directed at me. They are rare, but I’m ok with that; If you know me personally, I’d rather you just shoot me an e-mail than DM me on Twitter (which *also* results in an e-mail).
Why do I only get useful DMs? Because my Twitter followers are people, not bots — if I see a bot follow me, or write a public message to me (@pcgeek86), I will typically block them and report them as spam. My goal is not to have 8 thousand useless Twitter followers; I’d rather have just 500 actual, real people.

Well, it appears that perhaps we have different views of DMs. They come in handy occasionally when one of my followers wants to send a short note, but like I said, I don’t get spammy DMs, because my list of followers, and people I follow, is small. I never get DMs saying “thanks for following me,” or similar. I would surmise that this is due to you and me having a different audience on Twitter. I interact almost exclusively with techies, many of which don’t put in the extra effort to say “thanks.” If they do, they’ll simply publicly say “thanks for retweeting” — that is, at least to me, what is stereotypical with my Twitterosphere :)
Regarding the DM feature as a whole … I wouldn’t really care if they killed it. I have a link to my blog in my profile, and I freely distribute my e-mail address if people would like to contact me ([email protected]). I guess other people may not be quite so liberal with providing their e-mail address, so it’s possible that other people have a need for DM that I don’t.
Cheers
I think everything you have stated above is true with the exception of DMs. I use them for more private conversations with people on twitter and I would be sad if they went away.
Hashtag abuse:
Something I’ve noticed, suppose people think it’s funny-and it was at first- is when people tag complete sentences for no apparent reason. Sometimes they do it multiple times in a tweet and are possibly guilty of doing it in virtually every tweet. Frequently you have to decipher the damn sentence because all the words are bunched together since it’s a hashtag!
It’s ridiculous, it makes no sense, and it’s quite annoying.

I’ve only been really getting into twitter, and there is so much I don’t know, just recently understanding hashtags, don’t understand why you have to have a million followers, why is that?
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