Keith Goodrum

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…

[Edit - I've been doing some research because of a twitter reply by Harris Fellman about this tip. From what I can find it does look like that Mike Filsaime 1st came up with this tip.

It looks like Mike started doing this in October, and has been posting his url http://TwitterMike.com regularly. The past month I'd noticed several people doing this, decided to give it a whirl & write about it here.]

Here is a tip to easily & quickly promote your twitter profile in all your marketing material.

Step 1

Go to your favorite domain register and get the domain name http://www.twitter(your name).com. In my case I was lucky enough to get http://www.twitterkeith.com.

The key is to get your twitter user name, or if it works a shorter version. So, for example my twitter user name is KeithGoodrum. I decided to see if I could get twitter Keith instead of twitter Keith Goodrum. I really thought it would be gone because there are several twitters named Keith & figured someone would have grabbed it by now.

Step 2

Go into your webhost and redirect your twitter(your name) to your twitter profile. For example: http://www.twitterkeith.com redirects to http://twitter.com/KeithGoodrum.

Step 3

Now you can start using your new URL to promote your twitter profile. You can add it to your other social media profiles like: Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Your favorite forum profile pages… The list is almost endless.

The new URL looks cleaner, and is catchier than a regular twitter profile. So, go out and grab your name before it’s gone.