felipe’s last blog post..Brew Your own Affiliate Storm

I disagree that Tweeter Getter doesn’t add value, particularly for those who want to develop more relationships and are looking for some leverage and automation to accomplish it.

As long as you're NOT spamming about it or being obnoxious… Promoting Tweeter Getter respectfully and mindfully isn’t a bad thing in and of itself.

Right now, we all have lots of people regularly choosing to follow us at Twitter. Most of us don’t mind. We rarely know the person who ads themselves to the list… we don't know if they had a good reason to add themselves.

What matters is what we do after someone follows us on Twitter (and what the new follower does). If we engage in conversations, give value after they're on our list, we are using Twitter how it was intended.

For these reasons, I suggest using it if you’re in business. I've written how to go about the correctly and successfully at my blog, which I think there will be a link to here with my name.

Partners in success!
mike

JaceMan doesn't agree with me.
http://mike.brisgeek.com/2009/02/14/tweetergetter-twitter-password-harvester/#comment-43320

Cheers — Mike (@MikeFitzAU)

Mike Fitzsimon’s last blog post..TweeterGetter? Twitter Password Harvester!

You can view it here:

http://jacemansjourney.com/product-reviews/is-tweetergetter-the-devil.html

JaceMan’s last blog post..TweeterGetter the First 48 Hours and Beyond

Its a spin off of a very old Mark Joyner viral downline idea, the same type of idea that has built people like John Reese, Mike Filsaime, Gary Ambrose, Mark Joyner and other well knowns massive lists and businesses in the past.

Gary Ambrose said himself if this had been attached to one of the names above it would be getting more support from the vocal minority who are against it.

Gary McCaffrey’s last blog post..garymccaffrey: @esszeeeye i've a few interesting viral things coming soon. weeks away at this stage though…

I’ve been collecting my “with friends” stream as RSS into Thunderbird for 1-2 weeks, in order to be able to do some filtering and stats experiments, just to see what’s up. An average of about a mere 800 friends (”following”), many of them quite active, created well over 100,000 tweets!

Now this is hard because I know there are tons of nuggets hidden in there, from high quality/smart/nice people, and yet it’s difficult to find many of them.

Now imagine what happens if you have say 5,000 TweeterGetter ill-gotten spammers in your stream, it becomes completely pointless.

Lastly, people underestimate how much this kind of stuff can hurt their personal brand/social equity: Social context in SM is the key, and many people will react very negatively to perceived violations of social trust. Already, filtering around in my tweet “file” in Thunderbird, I could see 200 tweets “RT’ing” (really deceivingly so) for TG, and I dropped a handful of people who did so more than 2 times.

Others, including some pretty high-profile/”VIP” users, I already have just a bit less respect for now that they’ve outed themselves as not being above participating in a pyramid scheme. Even though many already had all of the followers they ever needed… and/or the means to get more, intelligently.

Remember that through Search.twitter.com, anyone can see if you participated, for good (unless you delete those tweets, which I kind of recommend). Through Google, likely forever. Not smart…

Protect your personal brand and social equity! That’s the only thing you really have on Twitter.

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