Knock, Knock, Is Anyone Home? DM Annoyances!

Is it just me, or has the DM feature on Twitter become nothing more than a "one pitch pony?"

Most of the DM's I get look something like "Thanks for following, I look forward to your Tweets!" Do you now? I find that interesting because most of the people I talk to online are telling me that they get little or no response via the Direct Messaging feature. I reply back to 90% of the DM's I receive and the response is just about non-existant.

And using the DM for spam... don't even get me started there!

I find this interesting because many of the people who don't reply back are the same people standing on a soap box proclaiming that Twitter is about building relationships. While I may not be the smartest bird in the bunch (even though I'm the best looking... just look at me) it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if someone approaches me in friendship, and I ignore them, that my response isn't going to produce favorable results.

In my experience, I have found that building one on one relationships (through the social media) has led to more relationships through the friends I've made individually.

From a business perspective, even if those individuals I've become friends with have never turned into a business transaction, because of that friendship, other business transactions have come through those friendships by method of referral.

Here's something else to think about. Wouldn't it be a shame if the the Law of Attraction had brought someone to you, through Twitter, that was automatically ingnored because you don't check your DM's from time to time?

The point here is this... utilize your DM feature! If someone communicates with you, person to person, communicate back. You never know when you are going to connect with that right person and things grow into something brilliant for both people!

Peace out!

The tBird!