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For heaven's sake!

He's called 'Shudogg Marketing'. He's posted exactly 3 tweets, all of which are spam and in 27 days of his accounts existence, he's followed 1475 other users.And in case you had any doubt remaining at all that he was a spambot, his 'personal name' is '0Rn056'!

So, why the hell have 434 users been dumb enough to automatically click 'follow'?!

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eponymousarchon.livejournal.com

That's interesting. What do the organisations get of out friending each other and then never reading tweets?

(Grins) I actually went back to Mr. 0Rn056's account - doesn't look like most of these are organisation accounts. Of those I saw, 'papaspunkin' *might* be a 'professional' account, but in a different way. ;)

From:

clarisinda.livejournal.com

They tend to be other London/South London organisations that might have something in common with us - and some seem completely random. They feel like they've got an audience, I hope we do too. But actually, this has made me feel somewhat sceptical about the usefulness of Twitter for self promotion.

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eponymousarchon.livejournal.com

That was partly why I was asking- everything I've seen about successfully promotion on sites such as Facebook, Twitter - even LJ, usually, is that the promotion is a result of having actual content to interest your followers, so that they are interested, and read when the occasional 'hey, we've got this cool thing coming up' is announced.

Compare http://twitter.com/BrentSpiner and http://twitter.com/wilw with http://twitter.com/WilliamShatner (Hint, two of these I follow, the third is also the genuine article, but wasn't on my follow list for very long)

The tweets don't have to be especially difficult - or highbrow or pre-meditated either, especially for slightly specialist subject areas (like your theatre, say) As an example, the webcomics community (such as it is) has an active twitter presence that mostly chats with people and each other, gossips and jokes around a little - and that's all it takes. If you're interested in the subject matter, you are interested in what they are saying, so you stay for the - "Hey, I've got a new book out here!" comments. :)