1. I DO NOT monitor my DM's at all. If anyone wants to reach me on Twitter it has to be through RT's. I found there is just too much spam with DM's.

2. You are always going to get negative feedback no matter how good your intentions. I must say I rarely get them, but I have had them. And I just ignore them. Heck even Jesus Christ got negative feedback and he had the purist intentions of anyone. People will always find something to gripe about.

3. I engage in both community interaction and marketing on Twitter and I do it like an out of control steam train. I now have just under 300,000 followers to which I am posting to every 30 mins, 24 hours per day. They get my marketing, full stop. But I also engage in communication with my followers my using Seesmic Desktop. Now do you think I get much negative feedback with that much marketing. I get hardly any. That's the truth. It just depends on how you market.

4. I believe that people have the freedom of choice and that they have the freedom to exercise that choice. They can opt out anytime they like. Anything else is just plain whining and winging and I ain't having anything to do with it.

That's it. I hope that helps. Conclusion… keep moving forward and don't be moved by the opinions and comments of others.

Greg

I'll give an example. I give free Spanish and English classes every weekend online. Anyway, I search for people who have tweeted something like, “I really need to learn Spanish.” or “I'm failing Spanish. I need a tutor ASAP!” Then I send them a tweet either telling them about my free class or offering to tutor them for a fee through skype. Am I spamming?

I personally like it when others respond to my needs on Twitter. For example, I posted that I needed a logo and a guy @ messaged me offering me his services. I didn't find it offensive or spammy, but a business listening to the need of a potential customer.

I thought I was helping people and hadn't considered myself a spammer at all until the other day a teenage girl replied to me, “Shut up.” That got me thinking that maybe I was bothering people. However, because she was so rude I told her that she could go private on Twitter if she didn't want to receive messages from people that she didn't allow to follow her. What do you all think?

I’ll give an example. I give free Spanish and English classes every weekend online. Anyway, I search for people who have tweeted something like, “I really need to learn Spanish.” or “I’m failing Spanish. I need a tutor ASAP!” Then I send them a tweet either telling them about my free class or offering to tutor them for a fee through skype. Am I spamming?

I personally like it when others respond to my needs on Twitter. For example, I posted that I needed a logo and a guy @ messaged me offering me his services. I didn’t find it offensive or spammy, but a business listening to the need of a potential customer.

I thought I was helping people and hadn’t considered myself a spammer at all until the other day a teenage girl replied to me, “Shut up.” That got me thinking that maybe I was bothering people. However, because she was so rude I told her that she could go private on Twitter if she didn’t want to receive messages from people that she didn’t allow to follow her. What do you all think?

I need to get my blog updated with a better capture page section. It is a work in progress and just happy to start getting views from Twitter.