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By Sean | September 2, 2009
My latest experience with Twitter was a program called Retweet Bomb or something like that. It had been set up as Twitter Bomb but Twitter didn’t like its name being used that way. Reincarnation of it was recently resurrected as Retweet Bomb.
Regardless I recently came across a rare release of a 1989 audio by Tony Robbins. It was a great audio with some excellent content of Tony’s and in an attempt to put it out to the wider audience and gain some credibility for diverting people to great content. Instead Danny the owner of Retweet Bomb sent me a note accusing me of posting affiliate links to his service and refused to post the link.
I could not believe the hypocrisy of a service that spammed my Tweet list with tons of spammy commercial links — making me look like a spammer — all the while I’ve only put one tweet out through Retweet Bomb — and Danny has the audacity to accuse me of posting affiliate links.
Therefore I give the thumbs down to this service. Why? Two reasons. One they spam your outbox with crap and two — the owner is prone to jumping to conclusions and making unfounded accusations.
I’m finding it is not so easy to find good services out there. Almost everything I’ve tried in order to automate twitter has some kind of spammy component. I manually add every user that is on my followers list. I read any profile that looks questionable — instead of mindlessly following any profile that can fog a mirror. Yet I’ve still managed to get several thousand followers without the spammer tools so many people are using. Look at the list of people I’m following. Almost every one has not only a photo but a real name — the kind humans have. I don’t follow ideas and graphics — I follow people.
And in spite of the care I’ve taken to build a solid list of real people and provide real tweets — I still get accused of spamming with affiliate links. Bugger — maybe I should just use the spammer tools since it does not appear to make any difference. However one I won’t be using is Retweet Bomb.
Topics: Good Products | 5 Comments »
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:41 am
How do I get him to stop spamming me with retweet bomb
September 5th, 2009 at 2:49 am
I agree with you 100%! I am building my Twitter list the same way and I believe there are a lot of great opportunities for like mined people.
All apammers want to do is make a quick buck then their on to the next thing to ruin!
Thanks
Tony
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:49 am
Mike if you go to your account “settings” tab in twitter and then choose “connections” you can disable retweet bomb.
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:51 am
Tony thanks for your encouraging comment. I have immensely enjoyed manually viewing the people and photos I have selected to follow and to hopefully obtain some followers from.
Also I have learned quite a bit about how twitter works that people with automation tools would miss.
thanks for your comments. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you and approving. I was traveling and did not have the password to this blog with me.
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:10 am
Just as an additional comment. I wrote to the owner of retweet bomb (name=Danny whitehouse). I mentioned that it seemed hypocritical of him to accuse me of spamming with an affiliate link when it was untrue — and to simultaneously spam my account with numerous links to a bunch of shameless sales pages — when I’d only sent “one” — non-commercial tweet through his program — that held no monetary benefit for me.
His response was to quote the BBC: “If you don’t like it — switch off”.
Now that is an interesting comment. Very true on the one hand. However there is more to it.
When we trust a software developer — even to use the unpaid version of their software — we are trusting them with our personal account and the effect they can have on it.
With over 35 years in business I have learned that when business people with an attitude towards people like he has exhibited — the best thing you can do is stay clear and warn others.
Social networks are for expanding our horizons and for protecting each others interests to whatever degree we can — especially when software developers demonstrate that they don’t care in the least about their user base.