Comments on: Tweet Repeat & the Self Retweet

By: thedavidlewis

thedavidlewis — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:26:50 +0000

I like Guy's solution of having two accounts. Over time, though, I have to admit that I am not seeing much of value. It appears that as the volume increases, Guy's involvement decreases. I'm not sure that Guy is involved in picking any of this. I think the Alltop staff has taken over these accounts.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:45:27 +0000

I would have to agree with both yourself and Guy; to a certain extent, I believe Retweeting yourself, or repeating tweets, can work. Obviously, you could be labeled a spammer and lose a lot of your following, but what if you have followers in Europe and USA?

If you tweeted something at 10am GMT, it would still be 5am in USA, so they most likely wouldn't see it. Why not compromise; maybe send one at 10am GMT, around primetime for Europe, and one at 5pm GMT, so that it is around midday in USA? That way, you would be tweeting in both time zone's primetime.

By: davinabrewer

davinabrewer — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:10:33 +0000

I'm torn on repeating my own tweets, every once in a while I search to see what others think about it. My policy was not to do so but I was reminded of Twitter's strength: it is real-time. The blog post I tweet at 10:30 a.m. is off the feed an hour later, GONE unless someone searches for my tweet or hashtag. So I've amended my policy, and I do occasionally RT a post, but I do include a “my latest blog” warning. I like the idea of your RTme tag, something short and easy to send.

And ITA with you that some people tweet and RT themselves too much, I've stopped following. I figure if they have something that good to share, it'll get RT by someone I do follow. FWIW.

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Holy Moly » Blog Archive » Do you know Cadmus ? — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:08:09 +0000

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By: David Lewis

David Lewis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:16:55 +0000

Ricky, thanks for your comment. I don’t get the whole debate going on on Guy’s blog. People are so emotional about this (just as they get on listservs). Guy has 2 Twitter accounts now, one with retweets and one without. That works (as long as he really keeps them consistent with the same info and just changes the repetition).

I still follow some friends who are Twitter abusers but honestly I skip a lot of their tweets. It all seems to be noise.

I don’t mind Scoble’s micro-rants as he usually builds on what he has been tweeting. I don’t like seeing the same thing over and over. It’s interesting to watch the debates between Scoble, Arrinton, Weiner, et al as they form in 140 characters of fewer.

By: Ricky Maveety

Ricky Maveety — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:24:10 +0000

David, I am not fond of the self-retweet, but I follow a number of people who do that, and are 10x worse about it than Guy will ever be. I must scan a few thousand tweets every day, but where my eyes will stop when I see something new and interesting, it just flits by a whole lot of what my brain knows it has read before.

I won’t un-follow Guy partly because he’s an old friend and partly because every once in a while he says something that I’m glad I saw. I just try to keep the number of people I follow who use scheduling bots to tweet ad-infinitum to a minimum.

Personally, it’s the people who get on one topic and tweet about that for what seems like freaking forever (like Mr. Scoble and Twitter lists) that make me a little nuts. Of course, there the solution is just to un-follow them every few days and then re-follow them when they finally move on to a new topic.

I guess there is no system that will ever work all the time for everybody.

By: D

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:31:57 +0000

Thanks David! I, too, like Guy, but did his stream clogged my fresh feed! Appreciate the initiative and the solution!

By: David

David — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:24:26 +0000

The votes were unanimous to NOT create a new tag. I should find a good poll plug-in.

The votes were also unanimous that I should unfollow Guy, including from Guy. Just tonight good news came in. Guy has created a new Twitter account: @alltop. The new account will be the same as @GuyKawasaki without the triple retweeting. Thanks, Guy!

By: Kellie Stevens

Kellie Stevens — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:44:37 +0000

I was reading some reviews of twitter management apps just yesterday (I’m looking too). One of the reviews made a pretty big point in their review regarding the scheduled tweet feature warning against the exact thing you are experiencing. While the feature is great and there are times you may want to tweet the same info (reminder of an upcoming event), great care should be taken not annoy your followers by abusing it. I totally agreed when I read the review..

Like anything in life, if it’s more annoying to you than helpful then nix it. Guy will have to decide for himself if potentially losing followers is outweighed by the his benefits of the retweets.

I don’t think a new tag is needed…just let natural selection/evolutionary process of business do it’s thing. Even if you do unfollow him at least he knows it’s an issue for at least one of his followers.

I’m beginning to feel the same way about the automatic posting of tweets in people’s FB timelines as well. It’s becoming increasingly frustrating for me and a time waster reading the exact same thing on FB and twitter.