A Movement to Stop Auto DM

Posted by Eric Brown | Filed under Urbane, UrbaneApts, technology, trends

Hi Friends, We saw this article over on Tech Crunch and thought you might find some value. Let us know your thoughts about Auto Direct Messages, Happy Tweeting!

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by Daniel Brusilovsky on August 21, 2009

Most of us are pretty annoyed with auto direct messages over Twitter. Well, Brent Spore took his thoughts in the public eye. He recently launched StopAutoDM, a movement to end the automatic direct messages. The idea and site are simple; you tweet out with the hash tag #stopautodm and it will show up on the site.

When we spoke to Spore, he mention that he just got “fed up” with all the auto DM’s he was getting, and there needed a way to stop it. Just another side project that means well. Just recently, Twitter changed the format of their direct messages with a new design.

For example, when Spymaster, the Twitter-based game, first came out, they used automatic direct messages which caused user revolt. Since then, the direct messages have been removed. There is still no clue on what Twitter will do to stop the automatic direct messages, but all we can do is hope that everyone ends the madness.


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Permalink | August 22nd, 2009

One Response to “A Movement to Stop Auto DM”

  1. Eric Brown Says:
    August 22nd, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    Update: Spore left a comment below explaining more about StopAutoDM.

    Just an FYI: The site was launched exactly one month ago (stopautodm.com) it was never intended to start a movement or claim some crunch press or promote anything. I just got frustrated with the amount on impersonal DM’s I would get from people after following them. I think the purpose and goal of the site is pretty clear in the description on the side. It’s nothing more than a public service announcement to help people understand that twitter is not a place to blast spam but make real connections with people you are interested in. The third party software(s) that make these type of actions possible have a lot of great features, but the point is that this one service is polluting the nature of twitter. So I decided to make a simple site that informed and educated. That’s it.

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