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Great post Scott. Thanks for the lessons.

Mary
http://www.tunickels.com

I’m half agreeing with Scott, half disagreeing.

The first Twibler message I got, did get my attention, by the third I had unfollowed the lady. She had nothing to contribute to a conversation it was a monologue. I would go so far as to say that I felt a level of hostility towards the seller who was monopolizing my twitter feed with junk.

I use Twitter as a sort of break. I learn a tremendous amount from people I follow who share their reading lists.

I feel a curious closeness to my gang.

I do send a link when I publish a new blog post but that is the limit of my self promotion.

Doesn’t it all come down to good manners, or is that hopelessly old fashioned?

I’ve unfollowed a couple of twibler users whom I would have otherwise kept following…it’s a shame because I may be missing otherwise interesting contributions from them, but once those eBay listings start piling up you have to weigh the pros and cons of the follow.

I use 30 day listing format on eBay rather than Good Til Cancelled. So if I were to use twibler my followers would get about 80-100 new tweets per day with often very similar listings–think that might cause my followers to nosedive a bit!

I try to keep tweets about my eBay listings to one per day summarizing what’s being listed that night. If I’m really excited about something I’ll include a link, but that’s pretty rare for me. And I do this knowing that likely 95% of my followers likely still don’t care, but you know, you’ve got that twitter badge on your web pages so there’s always the off chance a non-twitter user might see it–in other words, someone primarily interested in your items.

If I personally saw value in something like twibler and felt I had to use it, I’d use it on a second twitter account and not infect my main account with it.

All that said, I do think there is a place for twibler, but likely on a twitter subdomain and the app would probably have to distribute shopping listings from other venues (it may do that already for all I know, I’m not sure), and then, bang–you’ve got a potentially interesting shopping portal at a twibler.twitter.com type address. Those who are interested opt-in/visit whatever, those who aren’t can stay away. I think something like that would foster more good will though and have great potential use.

Thanks for the post,
Cliff

Thanks for the input ladies…

I appreciate your comments and hope to inspire more conversation along these lines.

Any Pro- Twibler Stories or thoughts out there?

A fundamental aspect of social networking is to develop relationships. That means getting to know others & contributing to the conversation.

When this leads to the opportunity to mention what you’re selling, that’s fine. But if selling is all you do, it’s poor etiquette IMO – much like those unwanted junk emails.

Marlene (aka TheSavvySeller)
http://www.the-savvy-seller.com