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Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Mike Pedersen — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:26:47 -0000

I can't stand all the spammy auto DM's. They are so cheezy and obnoxious. Why do people do them after all this time?

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Twitter Auto Follow — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:37:46 -0000

Some bots can be useful. Marco follow.com is a great bot because it can follow, unfollow and retweet based on keywords. This is good when you wanna concentrate on tweeting good stuff for your network.

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Jesse Stay — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:15:03 -0000

Jack, I'm a one-man show at the moment, so I'm working on making that process much easier and less of a burden for you. If you want to see more stuff like what you mention, feel free to donate on the site so I can keep working on things like this - your thoughts are exactly where I'd like to be.

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Jack Repenning — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:55:00 -0000

My joy is decidedly muted. This is opt-out rather than opt-in, it requires me to register to opt out, and it's pretty darned cumbersome (have to register and then go to admin).

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Paul Chaney — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:54:34 -0000

Thought I'd help your comment count. Seems a little low on this one. :-)

Thanks for being an advocate for no-robot behavior in social media. You know my stance. Now, if I could convince you never to "pay-per-post" again, that would be great!

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Jesse Stay — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:08:09 -0000

Andrea, I shared the numbers of blocks vs. sends on the Mashable post, but to answer your question on number of those who block, but still send - so far it's 36 people. (so far 192 blocking, 2,650 sending) I'll be posting more stats on this on my blog, staynalive.com as soon as I get a chance.

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Andrea Hill (afhill) — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:00:19 -0000

Thanks for the heads' up, Chris!

Now what would be really interesting would be to see the numbers behind the people who choose to block auto-DMs in contrast to those who send them (and how many folks block, but still send!)

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Darin "Doc" Berntson — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:40:52 -0000

Chris, great new feature eh?

Jesse, thanks for adding that to the software... I think SocialToo is great! I never did have it auto DM people however... but now I hope to stop some of the auto DM's I get. Button in my admin is checked!

I have a feeling you will be seeing a lot of folks sign up now to SocialToo... especially now that you have the "Brogan effect" in play!

Keep up the great work!

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Jesse Stay — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:30:06 -0000

Jodie, send me your screencap. You have to go to the admin page after logging in to set the feature. jesse@socialtoo.com

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Jodie — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:14:30 -0000

Hmmm - question - is that option geographically-specific? I ask because I went to do what Chris suggested (because, I mean, really... when don't we? *grin*) and that whole question has either been removed from the twitter credentials section, or it "sensed" I was from Canada and unceremoniously said "No soup for you!" I have the screen cap, should anyone be interested in this mystery.

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Debra — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:02:58 -0000

Oh, this is a beautiful thing! The only way it could be better is if it would generate an auto DM in return. "Hi! I prefer to deal with people, so your auto-generated message has been rejected. Please try again when you're feeling human. I know in my case that takes several cups of coffee in the morning, but I do get there."

The only hitch: I can't figure out what I'm going to do with all my time now that I don't have all those free ebooks to read.

And I'm with Ray: Killing Magpie tweets and AllTop spam, which I actually get far more of, would be glorious as well.

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Chale Espinosa — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:12:44 -0000

Thanks for the tip, am new at this and already was getting direct messages.

Keep it up.

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Steve Garfield — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:59:34 -0000

Thanks. Signed up. It feels like signing up for a Do Not Call service.

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Shirley — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:53:19 -0000

Haha, nice. Yes, I had to go and read the other article. :-)

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Ray — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:49:53 -0000

Chris, Thanks for posting instructions even I can understand.

Jesse, Thank you! Now can you kill the Magpie tweets? Not the Twitterer just the Magpie tweets.

I think newbies to Twitter sign up not knowing what they are doing. I unfollow some good folks just because I can't stand the irrelevant advertising.

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

sujamthe — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:38:54 -0000

Chris, humans rejoice, indeed! Catchy title brought us from friendfeed to share our love for socialtoo at this hour!
Jesse does quick fixes on socialtoo, real listening to the users!

Cheers!

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Rodney Rumford — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:42:58 -0000

Nice improvement Jesse. As we talked about the other night, more control for the users is great. Keep on creating: SocialToo is getting better by the day.

Cheers!

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Michael Fidler — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:30:52 -0000

I find Jessie's service very helpful,especially right now! I have the flu and don't have the energy to thank everyone who follows me. I need to update my message to express this, but I always personally greet each follower ever if they receive an auto-reply. I don't want them wondering why I haven't done anything for days. I was going to suggest putting a slight delay on the auto-replies so it's not so obvious what they are. If I follow someone and seconds later I get a DM back, I know what it is. If it were to come an hour later, I might not! A few weeks ago I was having serious problems with my PC, and I couldn't stay online for more than 20 minutes without it overheating. With a limited amount of time online, the last thing I wanted to do was thank every new follower. This is another example of a time the service came in handy. As far as I'm concerned SocialToo can be very helpful. Now I need to update my message before I go back to bed!

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Meredith Gould — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:02:15 -0000

Whew! Relief! Thanks again, Chris, for alerting everyone to a great service. (Thanks Jesse, for developing the great service).

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

MarlisaOK — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:41:14 -0000

This was my complaint just yesterday... it was annoying.
Thanks for the fix, Chris
~MarlisaOK

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Taco John — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:22:57 -0000

I RAN, I did not walk, to sign up for that site. Probably the most effective advertisement that site has ever gotten.

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Andrew Warner — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:06:26 -0000

Well said Chris. I hate those damn autoresponders.

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Wendy Peters — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:38:43 -0000

A great value add feature for those wanting to ignore the robot DMs and still follow people with quality content. This could be another step to seeing how it all shakes out in the wash. Would be interesting to see the uptake of this feature and how many users create a SocialToo account because of it.

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Seth Simonds — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:29:17 -0000

Talked to Jesse about this on Twitter just a few days ago, I'm impressed to see how quickly he was able to provide a solution. It's great to see a company move so quickly to curb a function that, however well-intended, was quite the annoyance.

Thanks for publicizing the fix, Chris!

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

Christopher Kusek — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:19:51 -0000

Thanks for sharing that - That itself is going to be one of the most beneficial reasons to use Socialtoo itself :)