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Show HN: Tweet about your product to the followers of your competitor
- onion2k 8y agoTwitter has a new policy that states if you're blocked by a small number of people in a short space of time then your account will be shadow-banned (you can tweet but it won't show up in people's timelines). This is probably a quick and easy way to get caught out by that.
- ship_it 8y agoQuick fix: create new account that will check if tweets are visible to that user.
- cod3boy 8y agoYes! :D
- troydavis 8y agoIf your marketing strategy involves throwaway Twitter accounts (or spamming strangers via Twitter), you’re doing it - for any definition of “it” - wrong. Come up with something better; it’s not hard.
- cod3boy 8y agoThanks, this is something real quick the team did in a day for our internal use. This is more like Ask HN, I am open to ideas and thoughts to do it better :)
- ship_it 8y agoYou obviously do not work in marketing.
- troydavis 8y agoOr I do but I’ve read and agree with http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/permission-mark.html http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/permission-m... (and the book, short though it is) and other experts. Godin says it perfectly: > … the new power of the best consumers to ignore marketing. It realizes that treating people with respect is the best way to earn their attention. Basically, a marketer trying to force their stuff on people - interruption marketing - either doesn’t understand their value proposition well enough to spot ways that it can actually help customers, or is too lazy to act on those ideas.
- cod3boy 8y agoThanks, will take care of that.
- jacquesm 8y agoThis may be legal but it certainly isn't ethical. Companies that use your service will likely suffer brand damage as a consequence.
- cod3boy 8y agoI thought of like a version of cold emailing but more targetted. Just a little hack to get users. Not sure if this isn't ethical. But I am open to shutting it down if everyone thinks it's not ethical :) This isn't our primary product, just stumbled on the idea while I was exploring growth tactics.