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]]> By: Phil Henderson http://siliconshovel.com/twitter-automation-gone-wrong/comment-page-1#comment-9 Phil Henderson Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:29:55 +0000 http://siliconshovel.com/?p=45#comment-9 Marc, It's not until something effects you directly that you begin to take stock of things... I'm afraid we are the victims of our own desires, especially in the IM World where we believe everything should be automated... People seem driven, in fact obsessed with automation. From autoresponders, auto-dialers, auto-DM's; we try all we can to avoid speaking to people directly. I like many, have a number of twitter accounts. My vanity account remains just that, an account where I can interact with the people I genuinely want to interact with. Sharing my findings and ideas with others and also listening to those who wish to share their findings with me. Sure there is some automation in there. I have an automated welcome message (without any sales pitch or URL) and that is it. I must confess, I do; however, have three fully automated twitter accounts that actually post my blog posts from my automated blog sites. The difference with these is that the posts are relevant to each niche and provide accurate and timely information to my subscribers. So there is some value with these. We marketers have created our very own Frankenstein monsters by offering "plug and play", "turnkey", "Automated Money Machines" to our readers and subscribers. People believe that all they need do is download a bit of software (at best) or read a 12 page e-book (at worse) and become overnight millionaires. The same lies true with the marketing hype surrounding twitter and other social networking medium. Yes there is need to automate some of your more mundane tasks, but do people really believe that they can hope to achieve great things without giving something back in return? A great subject for a great debate and one where there will be many views and opinions. It should make for some interesting reading. I look forward to "seeing" you again soon over a few beers. In the meantime, I'll have my machine call your machine ;-) Phil H Marc,
It’s not until something effects you directly that you begin to take stock of things…
I’m afraid we are the victims of our own desires, especially in the IM World where we believe everything should be automated… People seem driven, in fact obsessed with automation. From autoresponders, auto-dialers, auto-DM’s; we try all we can to avoid speaking to people directly.
I like many, have a number of twitter accounts. My vanity account remains just that, an account where I can interact with the people I genuinely want to interact with. Sharing my findings and ideas with others and also listening to those who wish to share their findings with me. Sure there is some automation in there. I have an automated welcome message (without any sales pitch or URL) and that is it.
I must confess, I do; however, have three fully automated twitter accounts that actually post my blog posts from my automated blog sites. The difference with these is that the posts are relevant to each niche and provide accurate and timely information to my subscribers. So there is some value with these.

We marketers have created our very own Frankenstein monsters by offering “plug and play”, “turnkey”, “Automated Money Machines” to our readers and subscribers. People believe that all they need do is download a bit of software (at best) or read a 12 page e-book (at worse) and become overnight millionaires. The same lies true with the marketing hype surrounding twitter and other social networking medium.
Yes there is need to automate some of your more mundane tasks, but do people really believe that they can hope to achieve great things without giving something back in return?

A great subject for a great debate and one where there will be many views and opinions. It should make for some interesting reading.

I look forward to “seeing” you again soon over a few beers. In the meantime, I’ll have my machine call your machine ;-)

Phil H

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