Just canceled my Twitter account
For those of you who have been following me on Twitter — nothing personal, but I just canceled/deleted my Twitter account.
I simply could NOT justify the monumental waste of time and idiotic sp*mming that was going on. And once it snowballed to a certain point, there was no other way to get out of it.
I made the foolish mistake several months ago of getting started on trying to see how many followers I could amass, with dreams of Internet marketing millions dancing in my starry eyes. Let that be a lesson to those of you like me who are prone to all those “take a chance” and/or “get rich quick” schemes and scams out there. I wasn’t out any money for the effort, but I sure got into some sp*mmy neighborhoods.
Once my followers had skyrocketed past any reasonable level, most of them being sp*ammers and MLM nuts eager to send me recruiting messages, oh, say, about a billion times an hour — there was not weeding out the bad and keeping the good.
So — now you’ll know why I’m no longer “following” you, and why you no longer see “realwriterguy” on Twitter to kick around anymore. (LOL!)
If I ever decide to go back to Twitter, I’ll be sure to post some sane, useful way you can reach me.
One small step from canceling my Twitter account …
I posted about this on another of my blogs today: I have become so fed up with the tons of spammers who’ve latched onto my Twitter account that I’m just one small step away from canceling it.
Do you “tweet” on Twitter? Or are you one of the handful of people remaining on the Internet who’s never gotten started with the mini-blog phenomena?
I started using Twitter probably a year ago? I really don’t keep track of such things that closely, but it was fairly early on in the service’s timeline. For months, I had only a dozen or so “followers,” all of whom I “followed” back. Then I had some friends persuade me there was a way to gain massive amounts of followers who would hang on my every word, who would flock (“Twitter,” “flock” — get it?) to my blogs and affiliate marketing websites as they read my tweets. Other folks pointed me at directories of Twitter users interested in similar topics as I, where I could quickly and easily follow them and most of them would follow me back.
What I didn’t think about was this: Most of those people in directories of users interested in the topics I am interested in really only use that to grab onto you and spam the daylights out of you.
Now I know. And now for every interesting or useful tweet that comes my way, I have to dig my way through BILLIONS of money-making opportunities, multi-level marketing scams, and all the rest.
How about those of you out there who also Twitter? Have you seen a growth in worthless, spammy stuff in your Twitter stream? Yes? No? Am I the only one??