Damn It TWITTER!!!! This Follow Thing Has Gone TOO Far!!!

Posted by Ed on April 1st, 2009 | Categorized as General

I begged people not to follow everyone who followed them. I created videos to explain why this was NOT A GOOD THING.

Nobody agreed.

In fact, in argument terms I was smashed.

So smashed, that I took a "Ce la vie" attitude to the whole thing. Hey, their's no "RIGHT' way to do this....

I wimped off to lick my wounds. I was a pussie.

BUT DAMMIT - IT'S TIME FOR ME TO MAN UP!

Follow You Follow Me has the potential to DESTROY Twitter. CRUSH the best marketing tool created since email.

I wish I could articulate in writing just how bad this crisis has become. Already the "AIG and GM" equivalents of Internet Marketing are exploiting human nature with spam and "How to Get a massive TWITTER following"

IT HAS TO STOP!!!

This video will make me about as popular as a Wall Street Banker bragging about his bonus check.

I am going to lose this battle but I dearly hope that those at TWITTER take a little bit of notice of an illiterate Australian who believes the best marketing tool of all time - is at a nexis point of crisis.

Have at it!

Tags: Twitter, InternetMarketing

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Twitter Populated By Drones And Fakes? | The Michel Fortin Blog:
[...] I’ve disagreed with my friend Ed Dale in the past. But recently, Ed posted a video on the Twitter auto-follow nonsense, and this time I must wholeheartedly agree [...]
--April 2, 2009 @ 3:10 am
Best in Social Media - April 4, 2009 | Social Marketing:
[...] Damn It TWITTER!!!! This Follow Thing Has Gone TOO Far!!! [...]
--April 5, 2009 @ 2:03 am
Look, I’m Not a Social Media Expert @ DAPancost.com:
[...] Having said all that I want to tell you about something that I did this week, and about why I did it. To set the context, I would like to ask you to listen to Ed Dale’s Rant on Twitter. Here it is: Damn It TWITTER!!!! This Follow Thing Has Gone TOO Far!!! [...]
--April 8, 2009 @ 9:56 am
Why I could care less about growing my followers and why you should to. | Pluble:
[...] As to auto-dming, please stop that as well. I personally send a personal DM to most of my new followers. Here’s a great post from Ed Dale entitled Damn it Twitter!!!! This Follow Thing Has Gone TOO Far!!!. [...]
--April 18, 2009 @ 9:52 am
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[...] wait…Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) This article was found on The Underachiever Life. Click here to visit the full article on the original website.I begged people not to follow everyone who followed them. I created videos to explain why this was [...]
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