“TWAM” Is A terrible Social Engagement technique!
Dave BrockAugust four, 2015
over the past years, but in particular over the last couple of months, the extent of TWAM has been escalating. For these of you unfamiliar with the term, it’s my terminology for Twitter unsolicited mail (thoughts you, I’ve applied for trademark rights for TWAM.)
This week, I’ve been in my opinion subjected to it at least 1/2 a dozen times a day.
This new form of TWAM not done by skilled TWAMMER’s. these are the people inundating you with messages promising 100K follower, or different unnecessary stuff. These are sales, advertising and marketing and others who’re the usage of social media terribly–discrediting themselves and the emblem they are representing.
right here’s what a kind of TWAM’s might appear to be:
@TWAMMER @Mike_Weinberg @Iannarino @jillkonrath @BarackObama @DavidABrock
What the TWAMMER has performed is identified some beautiful heavy duty influencers like Mike, Anthony, Jill, and well the President (I delivered that for fun). They’ve delivered a hyperlink–on occasion to nice content material, on a regular basis something beautiful mediocre.
In doing this, it seems in my feed, so puzzled and curious, I click on on the hyperlink, wondering why @TWAMMER did this. Even worse, the TWAMMER has hijacked my followers and people of everyone else in they’ve included within the tweet. The tweet ends up in their streams as smartly.
Naturally, they surprise, “What is that this? It seems somehow to be associated with Mike, Anthony, Jill, the President, and Dave. in all probability I should have a look at it……”
So the TWAMMER is really searching for to hijack the followers of influential individuals on Twitter (i’m far from that) top them to their content material.
as an alternative of establishing a recognition for high quality content material and engagement in Twitter, they select a truly shabby strategy to promote no matter it is they need, through hijacking the reputations of others.
lately, I received into a Twitter discussion with a TWAMMER. His profile indicated he was once most likely naïve and inexperienced, now not malicious. I referred to as him on his TWAMMING. His reply used to be, “should you had learn the content material, you possibly can have seen it wasn’t spam, however great content material.”
In responding to him, I explained how he definitely missed the point. His manner was misleading and lazy. The content material, used to be actually very good. however as a result of his approach at hijacking my followers was once misleading, it left me with a poor affect of him and the emblem he was once representing.
just right content material, delivered in a deceptive, manipulative, or undesirable method is unsolicited mail. in any case it creates more poor impressions than certain impressions.
enticing people via social channels is rather like enticing folks through any other channel. There needs to be a degree of belief. building that trusted relationship, building followers welcoming your content, wanting to be engaged with you, takes effort. There aren’t any shortcuts.
There are all different types of variations of TWAM. however beautiful quickly, the group figures it out. It’s easy to see what someone is doing, it’s simple to realize the manipulation, so it turns into very straightforward to disregard.
in case you are new to Twitter or different social engagement channels, take the time to build a following in keeping with great content material and engagement. Don’t take shortcuts, they’re very transparent–not directly doing you and your brand extra harm than excellent.
Postscript: In checking this text, I found out there is any person who is @TWAMMER. That individual has been on Twitter for close to 2400 days, has 1 tweet, 2 followers and is following 1. If that person sees this, forgive me for hijacking your Twitter name. I imply you no disrespect (i think).
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