slightly modified from comment on loics post which is Twitter Robots Killed Me (And Why I Apologize I May Not Be Following You Anymore)
a friend of mine produced Keith Jarrett – The Köln Concert (1975), one of the best-selling jazz albums of all times (wikipedia) and his most famous album The Köln Concert January 24, 1975 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzqMJWlKMsY and she talks about how keith was so outraged at the tuning of the piano that he walked out of the sound check and refused to play – and they were both sitting in the limo and she simply said to keith something to the effect “its ok if you leave and don’t play for me its just money i will give all these people who came to see you their money back but think about them they came to see you because they love you and were looking forward to seeing you and they don’t care about the piano tuning they only care about you and how disappointed they will be if they don’t see and hear you” – well the rest is history – food for thought
hmmm loic – few issues – i started sending back DM to people informing them that DM by many of us is not looked upon favorably and is more like an invasion – in response to chris brogan auto DMing post – i thought better to educate people who think this is an acceptible way of say something including thanks – but an auto responder DM is really way too much – i suggested that twitter put up a notice in the DM window to say automatic DM are frowned upon …
on the other side loic it could appear as you abandoning all the people who went out of their way to follow you especially since you are a trust agent and builder of community with your sesmic and le web – it is interesting and maybe a little reaction to something that bothers many of us – i signed up early on twitter but didn’t have the bandwidth for all the chatter in the early days until few months ago – i realized that twitter had grown up and was more about building a community – aside for all the marketing whores out there pimping twitter there is what i call a trust movement – maybe it’s wishful thinking – to build a society built on trust that serves it people as opposed to what we have had for way too long a society built on fear and distrust that serves its masters
so in the end i think there are lots of tradeoffs and unintended consequences – its depends upon how you relate to twitter and how twitter relates to you – and beauty is in the eyes of the beholder – not sure i would agree with your strategy loic –
