First of all, if you don’t know what twitter is, let me give you an introduction. Twitter is a service for friends, family, and coworkers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

It was created because even basic updates are meaningful to family members, friends, or colleagues, especially when they’re timely. Basically, with Twitter you can stay hyper-connected to your friends and always know what they’re doing. So what is the point of this post?

The Correct Use of Twitter

Recently I have seen how the most of people are using Twitter, and I think their use is incorrect. I’m going to tell you why, and also some of the correct uses of twitter. These are:

• Making New Friends
• Using it as a ToDo list
• Notifying Your Customers
• Taking Notes
• Event Updates
• Setting Up Meetings
• Getting Feedbacks about your Blog
• Anything else like the above

As you may or may not know, you can configure your cellphone to receive text messages when someone updates their status on twitter. This way, you can stay in tune with your friends, coworkers or family.

The Incorrect Uses of Twitter

A lot of people are using Twitter simply as a tool to SPAM. I can understand that a blogger sends messages to twitter saying “I updated my blog, check the latest post and give me your feedback”. It is reasonable that a blogger wants to promote their posts and hear the opinions of their readers. But what happen when the same people overflow the limits of the “promotion” and become spammers?

Daily, I receive several messages with an single purpose, to spam!!. I will tell you why they are using twitter incorrectly:

• They are only tweeting links: is not enough to them sending messages to get a feedback of their posts, in addition they send you the link of them. This is sad, if I would want to read your posts, I could subscribe me to your RSS but there are not need to spam every single post which you write on your blog.
• They Flood the system: At twitter you can see all your messages at your home. Sometimes, I can see successively, multiples messages from the same user. That has only a name: SPAM.
• They are using Bots: because of how they behave on the system, I could noticed that some of the people who I’m following are bots. They always begin a message with the same greeting, or end it with same quote.

Why the people think that they can use Twitter as a traffic generator? At the most twitter can be classify it as social network. If you want to get traffic just use traffic swarm, link referral or services like these. Please stop spamming. There are people who use these bots to automate their feed to post everything they have wrote on their blogs.

As marketers, many people want to promote their product or service, it is a reasonable desire. The problem is that they don’t care about their followers, and they don’t care about personalizing the message. They are sending a generic messages to each of their followers .

The Conclusion

However, you can stop following these people :smile:. The thing is that everyday, more and more people are using twitter to spam their links, and not with the purpose for which it was made. This must to be resolved! I think that the administrators of Twitter should start to track those people spam and ban their accounts! .

Seriously, I’m thinking about closing my twitter account, what do you think about it? I have removed like 20 persons/bots from my twitter, know I’m better with the service  :grin: . If you want to follow me, this is my profile.