Auto DM’s are spam! I know this has been talked about on many occasions (Chris Brogan) but I need to vent. They are a constant barrage of pointless emails littering our Twitter and email inbox. They are impersonal, untargeted and fake responses that carry no meaning and are counteractive to social media and the two-way conversation. Its only purpose is to breathe life into interruptive marketing, which we have all become numb to and I wish would just die already.

Personally I don’t respond to a “DM auto-follows” and on a regular basis for a couple of reasons: I don’t really have the time (actually I haven’t set way some time to) and these auto Dm’s have left the terrible taste in mouth.

I believe this tool does have some legitimacy, when you used correctly, connecting two people on Twitter privately. Personally I have been contacted by non-profits, charities, and just recently by an individual who had just moved to Vancouver from Barcelona and was prospecting for employment.

On a side note, just when I thought all was lost, I actually received a manual DM last week. I would once again like to thank @terrinakamura for that.

I did a little poking around the inter-tubes today, as I was writing this, and have found a couple of tricks that the claim they will eliminate a majority of the those auto DM’s. The two main websites responsible for the auto DM pollution are SocialToo and TweetLater. Here are the details on how to disable these polluters via @JonDBishop

http://bit.ly/2orM8S

I have not tried these techniques but will be in the next day or so. Ill will keep you posted.

The bottom line is if you send an auto DM you don’t really care! Its an automated reflex, like a when your doctor hits your knee your leg kicks out uncontrollably or when Kanye sees someone other than Beyonce win Best Female video award. It’s not authentic and lacks real purpose or intent.

If you not contributing to the conversation your just adding to the noise.

Death to auto DM’s Long live #manualDM’s!