In the past few weeks, two of my favorite bloggers announced they were starting over with twitter. First Chris Brogan and then Michael Hyatt declared that the recent proliferation of spam had led them to make the decision. Note to self: don’t click on any DM links that says “I laughed when I saw this picture of you.” These guys both had huge followings and it got me to thinking about my twitter strategy. I have had two Chase Your Lion accounts for a while and today made the move to merge the two. What I found is that their follower lists are almost identical. It has taken some time this morning to get Tweet Adder and Hootsuite back up and running properly. I actually had to delete Hootsuite on my iphone and reinstall it. So, now I’m pointing all my followers to http://www.twitter.com/chaseyourlion. It is the former @chaseurlion account and now the old Chase Your Lion is now @chaseyourlion2 until I’ve got everything moved and delete it. I will then keep up with who’s spamming me by running Twitblock once a month and blocking them. Now, the next phase is changing all the old links on my blogs to reflect these changes.
The top 3 reasons for doing all of this:
- My Chase Your Lion tweets will be more frequent and focused since I’m not having to come up with material for 2 accounts.
- I can now spend some time on another not so serious Twitter personality I’ve created.
- I was never happy with the name “chaseurlion” but ChaseYourLion wasn’t available in 2009 for some reason.
What are your thoughts? Have you noticed an uptick in the twitter spam you receive? Are these guys crazy to unfollow tens of thousands of people?
I have a couple of Twitter accounts and have noticed more spam recently. Today I went through some emails from Twitter notifying me of new people who were following me. I clicked on their Twitter pages and found that their account had been suspended. I guess someone else had already reported them as spam!
I haven’t been getting as much in the past week. I’m very happy about that. What do you use to manage your accounts?