However, although I can see how they might help you to provide value in the form of valuable content to the people who listen in on you, I cannot see the value of an auto DM - an automatic direct message that you set up your Twitter account to send every time someone follows you. None of us these days want any more communication that we choose to have - getting something sent by a bot does not make me feel valued, even less so when it contains a link that is trying to sell to me.
It's too impersonal. If I want to send a message to a new follower, I do so, using their name, and making it about them. It's the first step in an ongoing relationship on some level so I don't wish to start that with some sort of generic blanket approach.
If you choose to send them and like receiving them then that's fine, but if like me you don't want to have them jamming up your messages box, you can try this tip from @MQTodd - who's full of great tips actually ;-)
1) Log in to Twitter.
2) Follow @OptMeOut (SocialOomph)
They will follow you back within a few minutes.
They will follow you back within a few minutes.
3) Wait until you’ve received the email from Twitter that tells you @OptMeOut has followed you back.
4) Then send a DM to @OptMeOut. (You can write whatever you want in the DM, it does not matter.)
5) After sending the DM, unfollow @OptMeOut.
This will only stop those DM's generated by users of SocialOomph - but it's start and good on them for offering the feature!
Let me know what you think - is this a good tip? Is your DM box a little cleaner now??
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