Mike MacLeod

SocialToo Protects Me From Itself

// January 4th, 2009 // Journal

SocialToo was one of the first Twitter apps I used.  As a Twitter noob, I wanted to grow my followers as much as possible. Following the advice of Scoble and Kawasaki, I used the service to automatically follow anyone that followed me.

But I ended up following too many spammers. I still follow most people that follow me, but I do so manually to ensure that I don’t fill my signal with offers to make millions in my underwear.

I also used SocialToo to automatically send a direct message to anyone that follows me. I thought it would be nice to tell my new followers that they were my newest, most favorite Twitter friend.

Then I started receiving the same type of messages and realized that they come across as very impersonal and generally offer no value. So, I stopped using that service too.

Now SocialToo offers the ability to refuse auto messages from any other SocialToo user. This is awesome!

Everyone else can send and receive auto-messages if they like – but I’m not going to get any. At least not from SocialToo.

I recommend you join SocialToo even if it is only to block messages from their robots.

Thanks SocialToo!