Comments on: Twitter – Why Automatic Twitter Accounts Fail

By: Jason McElweenie

Jason McElweenie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:09:22 +0000

Yes
I want to be abundantly clear the St Louis Cardinals account I reference above is NOT an official St Louis Cardinals account.
I also want to note that the actual St Louis Cardinals have NOT contacted me at all about this post, the tweets or link to the blog on Facebook.
Monitor your brand, folks. Tony La Russa did
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98K0J3G1&show_article=1
thanks to @happykatie for the link

By: Fayza

Fayza — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:07:49 +0000

This isn’t the St. Louis Cardinals official Twitter account, nor does it claim to be. It’s a fan that has taken to following and retweeting everyone mentioning the St. Louis Cardinals. Anyone has the capacity to do that, and they do. Don’t hold the Cardinals at fault for that.

By: Jerri

Jerri — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:07:33 +0000

That’s hilarious!
Aside from the fact that I am not a robot, I recognize myself as doing all of the above annoying things when representing my company on Twitter: immediately following someone if they tweet about us, constantly talking about the company and not really starting conversations. I do feel a little creepy, but whatevs.
I get really annoyed when I follow people who pull in feeds from their blog or Facebook. My company wanted to do that, I said no way. Oh, automatic DMs after I follow someone that tell me to go to their website are also annoying.
OK, done listing my pet peeves. Gotta go start a mobwar on our company’s Myspace now.
PS What’s a T-850?

By: Aaron Long

Aaron Long — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:48:05 +0000

Weren't we supposed to have artificial intelligence and flying cars by now? It sure is nice to know that computers still can't trump human intelligence. It is kind of sad that I won't ever have a T-850, in a tragic computer controlled apocalypse.