I awoke this morning to 26 direct #clickmyjunk messages. Not a good way to start the day!

How did this happen?

Well, I have been very busy recently and hadn’t been keeping up with new followers on twitter, I had 100+ emails from twitter inviting me to check new followers profiles and I felt bad about having not done so.

I mean these are real people who have found value I what I have to say and have chosen to follow my updates, the least I could do is take a peek at their profile.

I then decided that rather than going through the 100 emails that I would just  follow everyone who has followed me recently, automatically.  A bad decision, I advise that you don’t do this!

I was surprised that nearly a quarter of my new follows were people who used automated services to broadcast utter rubbish.

So after unfollowing everyone who sent me a direct messages I did a little bit of research about how to automatically block DMs, here is what I ended up doing:

• Follow @OptMeOut
• Await DM advising that @OptMeOut is following you
• Respond to DM to finalize process

Now I will not receive any automated direct messages from TweetLater, for full details on the process click here.

While I am sharing, I also came across Turn This Thing Off! and love the frustrated bird!

If you use automatic DMs . . . can you please tell me why?

If you don’t use automatic DMs . . . how do you feel about them?

Before you go, have a look at how I am now managing new twitter followers and subscribe to my RSS feed.

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Tags: #clickmyjunk, twitter

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