Why people Hate Twitter BOTs?

by Leplan on October 15th, 2009

I did a quick survey with my friends about their view about Twitter BOTs. Let me share the major reasons why they hate Twitter BOTs.

1. Welcome Auto-DMs used as Ads

Auto-DMs are really annoying. When you follow people they say welcome with an ad — “please visit our site xxxx”. I take this as an offence. Suppose you come to our company site and we start telling you about our service one after the other without knowing why you came and what your interest is.

Do you like this? I am sure you wont. Best strategy is always to listen first, understand and then talk. And when you talk its better to ask questions and genuine questions. This will ensure good relation build-up, thus ensuring the successful use of Social Media.
2. Too Many and Automated DMs

When I follow you, I am subscribing to your Tweets and not to your DMs. You can DM, but not regularly to piss me off and force me to unfollow or block you. It is a good way of taking relations private and personal to have successful professional co-operation. Robotized actions in such functions can only harm.
3. Frequent Tweets

Twitter is not a Media like any other Media like Radio, Television or NewsSite. You don’t need to be there all time. It is simply because, no one is listening only to you.

Twitter is a Media where people follow many others and share things. Quality of Tweet matters a lot than Frequency. If the frequency is too high for followers to follow, you can only lose them; you have a share of people’s time and you better stick to it. Increasing the share can be a long term strategy with well thought planning, this needs quality of service and not quantity.

I unfollow any users who use BOTs to Tweet more than 5 Tweets a Min. This is irrespective of the quality of Tweet.
4. Automated RTs

This is another annoying thing. RTs are done for the Tweets that you find interesting and worthy for others to read. People have high expectations while visiting the links that are RTed. If you use a BOT for that purpose and wrong Tweets get RTed, you are gone. It can harm a lot and you may end up losing followers.

More important is the fact that such actions will lower the value of RTs. Accounts are graded by many Account graders using this metric, and the automated RTs of the useless Tweet will affect that badly.

(We are working to blacklist and remove RTs from the ReTweeter BOTs while calculating scores in Buzzom.)
5. Repeated Tweets

There are few BOTs in the TwitterSphere which Tweet about certain no. of links or services. They continuously do the repetition and add no value to the followers. It only decreases the relevance of the user and is most likely to be unfollowed.

Do you have any other reasons? Share it here as comments.

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chris

It seems to me that the only message I get in Twitter are From Bot’s but After opening a Separate Twitter Account and Adding TrueTwit I noticed an increase in the Quality of my Followers.

October 17, 20093:14 pm

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