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[phillipgessert]

I post about 2-3 tweets per day. I think they are like typical tweets -- games I'm playing, pics of lego kits I'm building, and other various brilliant musings.

I'm also a member of one of those online design portfolio sites. I update my portfolio about once a week.

My portfolio page has an RSS feed. So I set up twitterfeed to work with it. Effectively this means that once a week a bit.ly link is automatically posted to my twitter account for a new design project.

Is that considered spam?

 

[RevoDS]

No.

 

[koam]

Why would you make a thread about this?

 

[big ander]

Nope, you're just about fulfilling the purpose of Twitter. 2-3 tweets a day is not that many.

 

[Costanza]

Many sites have everything they post automatically go up on twitter. Not a big deal.

 

[Rabbit Lord]

Why would you make a thread about this?

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[B.K.]

Twitter IS spam.

 

[somuchwater]

If it's only once a week, why not do it manually. I find automated posts annoying - but if you take 20 seconds to describe the post in a unique way, I think that's better.

 

[phillipgessert]

Why would you make a thread about this?

Because I felt like I'd get decent answers here. And I'm just starting out on twitter and don't know too much about its etiquette. And I've unfollowed a couple people whose tweets were essentially an RSS feed, and wasn't sure where the annoyance line is drawn. Is that cool with you?

 

[Blueblur1]

It may not be "spam" but it's probably annoying. Same goes for people who use Raptr and auto-tweet dumb YouTube videos they added as an favorite. Screw that noise.

 

[koam]

Because I felt like I'd get decent answers here. And I'm just starting out on twitter and don't know too much about its etiquette. And I've unfollowed a couple people whose tweets were essentially an RSS feed, and wasn't sure where the annoyance line is drawn. Is that cool with you?

The etiquette for joining any website is to linger around it for a few days and see how people behave and what they post. Once you have the groove and feel for the site, jump in.

 

[Axion22]

Because I felt like I'd get decent answers here. And I'm just starting out on twitter and don't know too much about its etiquette. And I've unfollowed a couple people whose tweets were essentially an RSS feed, and wasn't sure where the annoyance line is drawn. Is that cool with you?

The greatest thing about twitter is people can choose to unfollow you if they don't like your tweets. Do whatever.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

No, site updates going to twitter are pretty common.

I have my twitter account linked to my blog.

 

[mollipen]

Have you, uhm... looked at Twitter? Pretty much the entire point of the service is Spam. My Twitter feed is a constant stream of Chris Jericho pimping FOZZY, my Canadian friend bragging about living in South Korea, Linetrap showing her penis, or any other random person writing down some mundane moment of their life for the world to see.

So far as I've ever seen, Twitter is nothing at all like a message forum, blog, or even Facebook; people don't use it expecting to get much more than an endless amount of nonsense about others. As such, knock yourself out! Do what you want with your feed, and if people don't like it, they don't have to follow you.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

Have you, uhm... looked at Twitter? Pretty much the entire point of the service is Spam. My Twitter feed is a constant stream of Chris Jericho pimping FOZZY, my Canadian friend bragging about living in South Korea, Linetrap showing her penis, or any other random person writing down some mundane moment of their life for the world to see.

So far as I've ever seen, Twitter is nothing at all like a message forum, blog, or even Facebook; people don't use it expecting to get much more than an endless amount of nonsense about others.

Depends on how you use it.

My twitter is setup to follow some really good ColdFusion developers, so I get notifications of their blog posts, their thoughts on various things 90% related to software development). So, it just depends on how you use Twitter. I have another column setup in TweetDeck to show me all tweets containing ColdFusion, which means I can sometimes answer people's questions on it, or see what other CF things are happening.

 

[phillipgessert]

Yeah, I guess I was overthinking it. Like being unfollowed was equivalent to being killfiled in a newsgroup or something.

Thanks for all the answers. Except koam. That sucked.

 

[mollipen]

My twitter is setup to follow some really good ColdFusion developers, so I get notifications of their blog posts, their thoughts on various things 90% related to software development).

Right, but... isn't that technically still spam? The twitter isn't being used for content, it is being used to advertise content, in the form of letting you know their blog has been updated.

My point wasn't that Twitter is useless, my point was more that Twitter itself, by its nature, is basically a quick and easy means of self promotion, in whatever form that comes in for you. I subscribe to Jericho's twitter feed because I AM interested in what he's doing, and his feed does that.

I have no problem at all with self promotion, especially when it is an opt-in choice. Twitter should be that, and as such the OP should have no reason to worry himself over what is or isn't "okay" in those regards.

 

[koam]

Thanks for all the answers. Except koam. That sucked.

np