{"id":12967,"date":"2014-10-29T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T00:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=12967"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T00:27:56","slug":"how-too-much-automation-annoys-your-twitter-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/how-too-much-automation-annoys-your-twitter-followers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Too Much Automation Annoys Your Twitter Followers"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to social media sharing, following and\/or marketing, I'm not a big fan of Twitter and rarely login to my Twitter account<\/a>. <\/p>\n

As someone who enjoys writing for the purpose of sharing information and to entertain, Twitter's 140 character limit leaves me somewhat cold… and quite frankly, despite being Canadian born and bred, I really DO hate being cold. <\/p>\n

I therefore sought all forms of automation to avoid Twitter and automated my Twitter account<\/a> to receive comments and articles that I post to my blogs, my Facebook acounts and Aweber<\/a> broadcasts using various applications such as Twitter Feed<\/a> as well as Facebook's, Twitter's and Aweber's own post to social media applications.<\/p>\n

UGH.<\/p>\n

Here, in the screenshot below are the results of that automation…<\/p>\n

\"twitter-automation\"<\/p>\n

Yes, you're seeing that right – FOUR identical entries from 4 different automation applications.<\/p>\n

DUH ME!!<\/p>\n

If you are a keen Twitter user \/ follower, seeing repeated entries for the same content from the same person is quite likely to irritate — and irritating your followers is NEVER a good plan, at least not if you want to build<\/em> a following on social media. <\/p>\n

So… once I saw this gigantic faux-pas, I basically killed all the applications that posted here, there and everywhere to all my social media accounts.<\/p>\n

What I'm doing now, is taking the time to re-write and post entries that are dove-tailed to each of my social media accounts, including:<\/p>\n