Tweeter Getter = FAIL11 Feb
Twitter has been an invaluable tool & resource in my life.
Actually, it’s been much more than that.
I can be fairly passionate about the things I love, and Twitter is actually a love in my life.
When something comes along to prostitute Twitter – like stuff that will do advertising for you on it – I can get a little defensive.
Such as it is with today’s prostituting tool of the day – Tweeter Getter.
It’s a ponzi game. Like you get for the dollar bills or recipes. Just put your name here, do this with the two ahead of you, send this to x number of people and get rich – get recipes – or in this case, get followers.
So, you want a lot of followers?
Well, do it the right way. Any other way is a cheap imitation and does nothing but devalue what Twittering is all about.
There are no shortcuts to Twitter.
Ok, let’s say you play the game. Then what? You end up with a big juicy number on your profile. Yippee.
But there’s no connection. No relationship.
And that’s not what Twittering is all about.
So please, resist the urge to be a Twittering A-Rod and don’t ruin the game for the rest of us.
Ricci
Tweeter Getter Boycotter
*For the “Morning After” post – see: ”Why TweeterGetter Struck a Chord“
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Why does he want my password to start using the program?
At the sake of being tarred and feathered here, I disagree that Tweeter Getter doesn’t add value, particularly for those who want to develop more relationships and are looking for some leverage and automation to accomplish it. The Internet itself is a great leveraging tool and can be used incorrectly, as can Tweeter Getter. If someone is spamming about it that’s bad, but promoting Tweeter Getter respectfully and mindfully isn’t a bad thin in and of itself.
Here’s why I believe Tweeter Getter can help a person develop meaningful relationships (for life and business)… and why it works very much within the natural environment of Twitter.
Right now, you, I and everyone have lots of people regularly choosing to follow us at Twitter. It’s the nature of Twitter. Most of us don’t mind and like to see those follower counts grow. We rarely know the person who ads themselves to our Twitter list… we rarely know if they had a good reason to add themselves to our list. If we really cared ‘why’ they added themselves to our list a lot more people would elect to manually view and accept all followers… but most of us don’t do that. Twitter followers are not necessary friends such as we see at Face book. They are tweeter followers–it’s different.
What matters to us and them and Twitter, is WHAT WE DO after someone follows us on Twitter (and what the new follower does). If we engage in conversations, give value, offer help, etc we are using Twitter how it is intended.
Tweeter Getter allows people to voluntarily elect to be use it in order to leverage the ancient viral concept to build a larger follower list. The people joining through this list are a lot like the majority of followers most people on Twitter get everyday already… they just want to follow more people and want more people to follow them so they can THEN build a relationship and have more influence.
If Tweeter Getter is used properly and not in any spammy sort of way, and IF someone is providing value and engaging in discussions with those who they follow and those who follow them, then I feel Tweeter Getter compliments Twitter… IF and only IF you want more followers. Again, it’s voluntary. As long as people aren’t spamming it or over promoting it or being annoying with it, it should be fine.
I do not know how Twitter will look at this tool. Do they care if we use Tweeter Getter. I doubt it. They’re trying to grow as fast as they can and I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t like seeing this kind of stuff as it helps in that cause… there are lines they don’t want marketers to cross, but Tweeter Getter, by itself as a tool, doesn’t cross any lines that define the use and environment currently on Twitter.
Maybe they’ll decide to put a stop to it. But for now it appears they’re just watching. I’d suggest if you’re a marketer you take advantage of this… but do it mindfully. I’ve written more about how to do that at a longer article at my blog, if you’re interested, should be a link by my name or something here to review how I’m using Tweeter Getter.
I respect everyone’s opinions who disagree and I understand the concern–that such tools take people’s focus off the relationship part of social networking. I have seen that with other tools, but I don’t not see that here (I mean to say, if done mindfully, this tool in and of itself is not like others I’ve seen that are completely working outside the normal setting and use of a social site).
For these reasons, I suggest using it if you’re in business.
Mike
TweeterGetter has three uses:
1. For non-users, it alerts us as to which of the people we are following are fools. As soon as we see that RT about 19,530 followers in 30 days, we know to immediately UNFOLLOW the fool.
(I’m pleased to say that none of the people I’m following have signed up.)
2. For the gullible fools who sign up, some of them might be getting some other lower-quality fools to follow them. I’ll admit this.
3. For TweeterGetter’s creator, Gary McCaffrey, it is a game and he has already won. By the time this has run its course, he will have collected tens of thousands of Twitter usernames belonging to people who have self-selected themselves as “gullible fools”. This is a multi-level-marketer’s wet dream. He and his cohorts are already building their armies of fake twitter accounts with which to unleash the coming spamstorm.
See http://mike.brisgeek.com/2009/02/14/tweetergetter-twitter-password-harvester/
See also http://mike.brisgeek.com/2009/02/15/an-army-of-retweet-bots/
Tweeter getter was the sort of carrot for an excellent book Twitter Manifesto, however more and more people promote this tweeter getter
some are proud of it
but its a tool, if your a spammer and get thousands of followers you will lose them in a second if you treat them wrong
I have only been informed about tweeter getter by a blogging buddy. Just about to sign up to program. Let’s see how things go.
Whether it’s a spam program or not, I care not. I used to value my 98 tweeter followers, but I guess in this day and age, we live in a number crunching world. So it’s time to convert those pithy 98 to 98 trillion (sorry, been watching too much Austin Powers lol)
Wish me luck, may the tweets come pecking on my door.
Regards
Sol
I respectfully disagree and wrote an article explaining why TweeterGetter is a good thing.
http://blog.dotnetdude.net/2009/02/why-you-should-check-out-tweetergetter.html
The concept doesn’t really make sense of this tool. First it ask you for your password to your account. For what? Next, it tells you to re-tweet his message. If you are retweeting it, the only people seeing it is people that ALREADY follow you. You would have to do outside advertising with the link. But tell me, whats the need for the password?
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well put!