I like everyone else in the social media world loves twitter. I use it daily to communicate with friends, find out about my business and just keep up on gossip. I tend to write more personal stuff than business stuff and I have a decent number of followers. Not like some of those crazy people with thousands upon thousands of followers.
This makes me wonder about the professional stuff I put out on twitter. To a certain degree many of the pr/marketing types out there are spamming twitter with links and professional information. On one hand you can say that if a person doesn’t want to follow a pr/marketing pro they don’t have to, but on the other hand it makes me wonder if when I put professional stuff out on twitter does it devalue my online presence.
I have begun to wonder if pr/marketing people need to put a label on their twitter handle. Something along the lines of “I will spam you every now and then,” or “read my stuff.” I certainly don’t fell what I write, or what I twitter, is spam but I am certain there are people who join twitter just to send out professional information.
As a professional I find twitter an amazing tool for connecting to people who share similar ideas. As a fan of social media I find twitter to be a fun tool for staying on top of my friends lives. Finding the perfect balance seems to be a problem. I feel that if I were to start a second twitter account I would be setting up a false persona.
I am confident that the people who follow me on twitter don’t think I am spamming them, but sometimes I worry. Do you feel that you spam or get spammed too much on twitter? Have you ever stopped following someone because you felt their tweets were too spammy? Let me know
