Comments on: When Is It Spam? http://blog.coherentia.com/index.php/2009/10/when-is-it-spam/ Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:04:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Neicole http://blog.coherentia.com/index.php/2009/10/when-is-it-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-925 Neicole Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:47:36 +0000 http://nmc.itdevworks.com/?p=927#comment-925 Thanks, Heidi. I think you're right that the ratio is a critical factor. And relevancy is important, of course. Thanks for commenting! Thanks, Heidi. I think you’re right that the ratio is a critical factor. And relevancy is important, of course.

Thanks for commenting!

]]> By: Heidi Cool http://blog.coherentia.com/index.php/2009/10/when-is-it-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-924 Heidi Cool Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:04:33 +0000 http://nmc.itdevworks.com/?p=927#comment-924 I think Steve is right that (to some degree) SPAM is in the eye of the beholder. The make money fast pitches are clearly spam. The new trend in which a user makes the same pitch one at a time to others but using the @ to direct it to a user is clearly spam. But promoting something that will be of value to a certain audience, and identifying it by a proper hashtag seems legitimate to me. We're all allowed to do a certain amount of promotion, but the rule of thumb for social media has traditionally been that promotional Tweets should make up a smaller fraction of your content than the rest of your Tweets. So whether you Tweet the same thing twice or 4 times may not be as relevant as how many other Tweets come between those. If you promote X 4 times in one day (and X is of real interest to some people) but also made 40 non-promotional Tweets then a person viewing your stream probably won't consider you to be a spammer. If I see the same message from you a few times in a day, and that's all I see, I may find it annoyingly repetitive. But if I also see lots of other interesting things, then I'll cut you more slack. (And given the volume of Tweets I may be less likely to notice that you've been repeating.) So overall I think much of this has to do with context. I think Steve is right that (to some degree) SPAM is in the eye of the beholder. The make money fast pitches are clearly spam. The new trend in which a user makes the same pitch one at a time to others but using the @ to direct it to a user is clearly spam. But promoting something that will be of value to a certain audience, and identifying it by a proper hashtag seems legitimate to me.

We’re all allowed to do a certain amount of promotion, but the rule of thumb for social media has traditionally been that promotional Tweets should make up a smaller fraction of your content than the rest of your Tweets. So whether you Tweet the same thing twice or 4 times may not be as relevant as how many other Tweets come between those. If you promote X 4 times in one day (and X is of real interest to some people) but also made 40 non-promotional Tweets then a person viewing your stream probably won’t consider you to be a spammer.

If I see the same message from you a few times in a day, and that’s all I see, I may find it annoyingly repetitive. But if I also see lots of other interesting things, then I’ll cut you more slack. (And given the volume of Tweets I may be less likely to notice that you’ve been repeating.) So overall I think much of this has to do with context.

]]> By: Neicole http://blog.coherentia.com/index.php/2009/10/when-is-it-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Neicole Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:20:26 +0000 http://nmc.itdevworks.com/?p=927#comment-842 I LOVE your avatar!!! I agree re: raising more questions. Maybe my survey will help answer some of them. Relevancy (a product I don't want or do want) is clearly important. I LOVE your avatar!!!

I agree re: raising more questions. Maybe my survey will help answer some of them. Relevancy (a product I don’t want or do want) is clearly important.

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