And anyone’s else for that matter. It’s not hard, you just have to ignore the most basic common sense rules of web-sharing and communication.

Be an ‘Internet Marketing Guru’

Yes, a guru, a ninja or a rockstar. You choose your title. After that, add me on Twitter. I’m a trusty fellow and allow Twitter to announce me when I’m added so that I can check everyone out and see their beautiful tweets. But not you Mister I.M. Rockstar. Let’s see how your profile looks:

  • Following: 65.000 (roughly)
  • Followers: 64.000 (roughly)
  • Tweets: 5000 (roughly)

Out of all these people you’re following or follow you, you TALKED to how many? You retweeted how many links from them, or from other accounts/websites? Why are your last 5-6 pages filled with links to your amazing schemes to make money online fast and online sales pages to obscure ebooks for which people have to pay to learn that they can use AdSense to monetize their blogs? Come on! Add me! See if I care!

Twitter is about communication. About states. About the moment. Twitter is about friends and great content. Twitter is not about “I’m a guru in my own backyard!”. Twitter is about “I’m an Internet Marketing ENTHUSIAST, and I want to SHARE some amazing content with you!”

Make me click… and click… and click…

This happens so often lately. Way more often than it should (aka NEVER). These days folks share link on Twitter that send to Digg or some other obscure Digg clone. And as if that is not enough, the link posted on Digg leads to another “news” aggregation website that rarely has an excerpt listen, and in its turn links to the original post. So, to access that content that YOU PROMISED me within your tweet, I have to go through 2 websites that I don’t give a c**p about. I’m definitely not going to vote anything before I read it. And surely, if I vote, I’ll vote for the original website, not the news aggregation website!

But it’s cool. People need to pull their page ranks up, their traffic levels. Domains can be sold later for a better price. We know. We were not born last week.

So, the next time you do that, think of it as if you were actually spamming the Twitter flow, cause that’s what you are doing. Don’t expect Twtter love back, RTs, and followfridays.

Yes, I’m venting

Why do I care about it? Because I enjoy the tweets I get from my followers. Because I trust them with my “follow” and expect the same respect back. If you wrote a GOOD article and need votes (if that’s the case), just state it. Link to the original article and give me a voting link so that I can vote if I feel like it after I read it. That’s SOCIAL. That’s MEDIA. Not what so-called ‘gurus’ understand. Time to clean up my Twitter account.

Happy and smart tweeting folks!