The microblogging platform called Twitter, started a wild climb on the social media ladder the past year. Since the release of their API many services have jumped out on the internet world and have helped or swamped tweeple. Just recently this new service called TweepMe opened the gates. What they do is pretty simple to grasp. If you sign up they automatically add you as a follower to all other TweepMe users and you are automatically added to be followed by each of them back. Now, this has it’s good side but i think it’s a pitfall.
On the good ones. First of all, you have guaranteed followers. Even if you just signed up there is nothing to it. You follow and get followed by thousands of people. Secondly, because of the vastness of the users it will give you the opportunity to find some more interesting people you might have not found out about without. But think about it a little bit more…
A spammer that wants to promote their stupid product, all they have to do is sign up. No need for consent or anything. A few seconds later he can reach your timeline, no sweat. Moreover, besides those, what is the quality of your followers? Are they posting something that interests you? Imagine having 10000 followers at once and more than 60-70% being something you don’t care about. The impact? Try loading your twitter stream and having as much fun as you are having now…
A final thought that comes to my mind is the most essential one. Twitter has given all the users the opportunity to build their own world. They include anyone they feel is worth being there and exclude anyone they don’t care. So, their tweet stream is filled with interesting stuff that their friends come up with. Links, funny stuff, facts, quotes etc they are all there and most of the time it interests you. By joining that service wouldn’t that be harmed? And think about it the other way. If twitter was meant to be used that way wouldn’t it be designed that way from the beginning?
If, after all this negative energy, you are still interested in joining then hurry up and visit their site. The first 5000 users will get free lifetime membership. My guess from this, they will be charging monthly for this….????
PS: After posting i found this excellent article on the subject…
Honestly I made a fool out of me when I first signed in with them because of a tweet from one of my close blogger frd…
I really feel like a noob…
Onbiously #TweepMe tags are being recorded by lots of users and it is going viral so even though the owner is not dng anything but sitting at home and making money by Human viral marketing..
The interesting part is the owner Twitter profile is deleted 😀
@P@r@noid: Well man we all make mistakes. And to be honest it really made me think a little… I read the article that i found (posted as a PS on the post) and i totally agree with the guy. I mean it’s a stupid service that is a tooootal scam. Anyway the only thing i think is hard is for you to un-follow all these 4000+ members added to your followers… Good luck with that 🙂
I wonder why it took so much time for such a service to come up! Seeing so many people always hungry for more n more followers, I always thought a service like this would come up some day, especially since Twitter shares its API freely with everyone. Alas! that day has come now. It’s a shame if people opt in for that. This is nothing but a form of viral marketing #FAIL
I have collected a chronological overview of pros and cons re: TweepMe:
http://sozialgeschnatter.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/the-twitter-scam-everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-tweepme-but-were-afraid-to-ask/
Short: http://is.gd/ogrg
@pjebsen: This is a very nice post you have there man… Thanks for dropping by!
I actually saw the pitfall the minute you mentioned you pick up all these free followers. It’s bad enough when you get one or two that spam the crap out of Twitter with their useless tweets, imagine having hundreds of them. Nope I reckon that is one ap that I will stay away from.
I am also going to stay away from it. Looks like a place for spammers.