How to lose Twitter followers quickly
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OK so as most of you know, I’m no Twitter expert. In fact, I’m completely useless when it comes to Twitter but I have figured out a few things in the past couple weeks and here’s the big one that I’m going to share with you … if you want to lose followers quickly, spam them.
Don’t get me wrong, I have no issue with people making money online and promoting their businesses but you have to do it in moderation.
Take for example Canadian Affair (@CanadianAffair), pictured to the right. They’re an airline which flies directly from my little city of Fredericton New Brunswick to London and they do it really cheap, so I decided to start following them on Twitter but since following them all I ever get from them are sales pitches. Sure I signed up for them and they’re sending me something but not what I was hoping for, luckily Twitter lets me stop following them pretty easily as well.
So what would I recommend a company like this promote on Twitter to keep me happy and make money using Twitter? Actually it’s pretty simple, what I was hoping for was:
- last minute seat sale information, they could have even gone a step further and let me follow just my local airport
- flight tracking details
- special offers
- tourism information about destinations they visit
In short, the problem with following Canadian Affairs is that like many businesses they misunderstood the most basic element of online marketing, it’s about me … not them.
Such a good point! I’ll admit that I may have gone a bit to far on my business’s Twitter posts. I mean, I wasn’t THAT bad, but you have such a good point. It really is all about the people, not your business. Thanks for the reality check. ;-)
I find it amazing that some “twitters”, are actually making 10+ tweets within 5 minutes or worse. And furthermore the subjects of those tweets has nothing in commen. I sure un-follow those persons who just posts random tweets.
Yup .. Foolow proper people o else u’ll b flooded wid notifications..lol..
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In order to get more people listen to you in twitter, you really have to use it wisely. Not keep promoting your products or blogs, you have to communicate with your followers, after you’ve built up your community, then only share your nice article with them.
Of course, I’m not a twitter expert as well, but this is what I know about twitter marketing. :D
Regards,
Lee
Yup, I unfollow as soon as someone mass spam bunch of updates. Covers up my whole screen with the same picture.
Twitter is great platform to promote special offers. I think that will become very popular in the future.
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