Archive for November, 2009
Stop Spamming my Twitter DM…
No REALLY… Enough already!
I get Lots of hugs from my wife… plenty of snuggles from Gypsy The Wonder Dog…. And after some very intensive training – Sparky the Goldfish has got the high five department taken care of…
I don’t care how many points you scored on “Thor! The Self-Abusing Hammer Thrower”… My thumb hurts just thinking about it!
I’m not going to join your “Twitter Ninja Mafia Dojo Clan Tribe”… I’m an Island of one!
And I’m not really interest in finding out what color “M&M” I am… I just want to eat them!
All this stuff is really spam in your DM
How do I know it’s spam? Simple… I never asked anyone to send this to me. I didn’t opt-in for any of it, and I don’t want it.
Maybe I’m in the minority here. but I actually like to use my DM for direct communication… not automated garbage. I’ve used the DM to talk with people, and have 2-way conversations.
But, all of this automated DMing clutters it up and makes it a useless feature.
It’s not a wall for people to come by and spray paint.
If you are sick of getting all this junk in your DM stream, then there is a solution. You can opt-out of this two ways.
1. You can opt-out from the site it self. Click on the link of one of the DMs you get and at the bottom of the page you will see a link to Opt-out.
2. You can revoke access to the application from your Twitter settings. Login into Twitter, click on stetting and then click on connections. From there you can revoke access to any application connected to your Twitter account.
Here is a video showing you how I did it, and you can to…

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