“Are you following me [First name]? Hmmm? Are you following me [First name, Last name]? Are you?”
That slightly butchered Deniro quote comes from Jim at Obsessed With Conformity. Jim used to shoot that as an autoDM to his new followers. The responses were mixed.
Some folks caught the Deniro reference, were interested and responded to him. Others didn’t responded anyway, and were turned off once they realized it was an autoDM. Turned off and unfollowed.
I don’t autofollow, so I don’t receive a steady stream of these. They do come in though. The percentage has dropped off significantly where I receive one back for a follow. This doesn’t bother me at all.
Unfollowing hasn’t been my response for them, even when it’s obvious. Lately though it’s been less obvious. The auto responders are getting smarter and allow my name to be included and the messages don’t sound automatic. It makes it more tolerable I guess. Tolerable if they aren’t trying to sell me something, visit their MLM page, or tell me how to get 10K Twitter followers.
Honestly folks. AutoDMs are anything but personal. They are the Twitter equivalent of SPAM. Yes, SPAM. Unsolicited and often advertising like in nature. And yes, even if it’s come chat with me type message, it’s still advertising. So STOP IT!
What’s your take on autoDMs? Hate them? Use them? What’s your success rate with responses? Did you create a landing page for folks to visit that you include in the autoDM? What’s the drop rate? Do you autodrop folks with autoDMs?
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Hey Todd...you certainly won't find a more hot-button twitter issue. I am a reformed auto-dm'er so I don't want to sound hypocritical, but I don't like them. As you say, they are impersonal and unsolicited, and I have yet to get one that moved me to check out someone's site. I wish people would not use them, but at the same time I do not unfollow anyone that sends one, I just ignore them and eventually delete them.
I would much rather a new follower just said hello, and reached out personally, but you know, Twitter is whatever you want it to be, so people are going to do what they want. And with the complexity of the dm's now, it is hard to tell if the person is reaching out or if they are sending you a dm.
I have found that it is easier for me not to get too riled up about it.
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