There is a new feature on Mahalo where you can make M$ by Tweeting the question to Twitter... will your friends get annoyed at you?
I know I will be doing this daily from now on; however, I am worried that I will lose some followers.
What do you think???
New Feature: Earn M$ for posting questions to Twitter with your linked Twitter account. (Beta)
http://is.gd/2TWg1
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Twitter is very quickly receiving a bad name as a source of spam. A lot of twitter users are trimming their followers lists to improve their "signal to noise" ratio. I know that personally, I have transitioned my twitter account from a large list of followers down to a small, tight, 400 or so.
From a marketing standpoint, the change hasn't affected my stats. When I send out a link, the same number of people click now as when I had over 2000 followers.
From a "noise" perspective, I enjoy twitter more because I'm truly listening back and like what I see roll across tweetdeck.
So, I'll use the feature and appreciate the M0.10, but I won't use it any more than I did in the past. I'll still only be tweeting the odd question that I find really interesting.
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M$Sure, Tweet, digg, stumble the odd Mahalo link but if you ONLY tweet, digg and stumble Mahalo links (or your blog, or whatever) you can quickly lose followers on twitter, diggers will bury your content and stumble's algorithms will ignore your submissions. It's just the nature of the social web.
If you need numbers, I would say 15% of your content should be from the same source, across the board, no matter what social site you are using. 15% should be the maximum percentage of your sharing activity towards one website.
Understand social networks were communities built from the ground just like Mahalo was, we wouldn't appreciate if a user stepped into Mahalo and posted 50 questions a day about some website none of us have heard of. It's the same thing if one of us went to reddit and just blindly submitted 50 links in a row. I saw a user do this recently and approached them and their logic was "I got a few hits" - Well the key is to get LOTS of hits using more efficient means. Why submit 50 links to 500 hits, when you can get 500 hits with each piece you share, without burning bridges along the way?
My advice would be, beyond Mahalo, find a few social networks you like, build a profile, spend some time sharing and voting for other peoples content first before you even begin sharing Mahalo. Once you've got a good idea what it takes to get attention, start sharing Mahalo pages, periodically, mixed in with good content from elsewhere around the web.
Twitter is no different, if you spam Mahalo, you will lose users and potentially give Mahalo a bad name for the rest of us. Sharing 10 Mahalo links a day is do-able, just be sure those aren't the only 10 things you share on Twitter.
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I think that this is a really good answer Jeff.
"I would say 15% of your content should be from the same source, across the board, no matter what social site you are using. 15% should be the maximum percentage of your sharing activity towards one website."
In your vast travels across the Internet, if you happen to come across any sources (other than your valid expertise), might you be able to send them over to me? Without much luck, I've been trying to find some real hard-and-fast Forrester / Jupiter style research on your exact observation.
The problem comes when I'm following let's say 20 Mahaloians.
200 tweets of questions a day?
And if they kept to your 15% ratio they'd have be posting 5 other tweets for every question tweet, so I'll be getting 1,200 tweets a day from Mahaloians?
The idea is ok, but the numbers don't work.
If it was 1 tweet of a question a day per person, I'd be fine with that.
It would be a shame if I had to unfollow people because of this.
I don't recommend anybody post 1200 tweets in one day
@robbrown I have no data or sources to back that number up, it's part experience, and part common sense. Treat the internet as you would want it to treat you. I used to work for a social media site the easiest way for them to deal with spammers is to give their submission no light in their communities - they don't look for spammers, they just punish accounts that submit the same source over and over and over again.
Never go into somebody elses community and submit 1 source over and over, doesn't matter how great the content is, detectors will call it spam. I don't care if your doing it for SEO or to boost your Mahalo traffic, its a horrible method that will come back to kick you in the ass later. Think about long term bonuses you can get from being a good netizen, instead of the short term traffic you get from spam activity.
~~~The More you Know
@jeffhoard
"Treat the internet as you would want it to treat you."
This should be a world wide slogan or in a anthem regarding behavio(u)r on the internet. That would be fantastic.
@jeffhoard - we're on the same page.
I'm thinking that other folks have thought about this problem. I'm sort of hoping that some of those folks might be statistical freaks and may have completed research and published a report on this.
I've already shot this idea out on a few forums as a thesis suggestion for CS students.
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The only one I clicked on from my Twitter stream was one that already had a best answer picked. It was something along the lines of "what am I doing wrong at Mahalo," which I wanted to answer because I think it's important to get people good information when they are wanting to be involved.
I am/was trying to prove a point... and I think I succeed. I already got a tweet response from one of my followers saying "I'm on Mahalo Answers overload on Twitter".
Also, I picked questions that didn't have best answer, only one answer, etc... this is/was to show that we need to concentrate on content not "features". Garry Tan http://garry.posterous.com/ said today on #TWIST we should keep it simple and don't add all kinds of stuff (I was paraphrasing and he was talking about Posterous not Mahalo); however, I think Mahalo should listen to this guy... and drink his milk shake.
I also picked random questions to prove another point that the "spam" of questions could get way out of hand.
Just my 2 cents (which I can not add to this question... yet) ;)
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That is ok... and I won't be offended if you don't come back. I won't be doing that again. I was trying to prove a point.
I will still probably tweet my questions; however, not in the mass volume I just did.
if that is the case, then I will be back. :) - I am glad you proved your point and I could not agree mote.
They may “un-follow” your group.
My opinions:
1. Think in the line of how the Tweeting Mahalo Question will help your tweet users.
If they are Mahalo users (maybe recommend them to join) and knowledgeable in the types of questions you send, your Mahalo questions tweets may be useful to them.
2. If your tweet is not useful to them, it will be considered noice/nuisance to them. If you still want to send the “noises”, try to sandwich between useful tweets. Try not to cross certain threshold of signal-to-noise ratio below which your followers will “un-follow” you.
3. On “economic analysis”, you can think of it this way:
Let say by tweeting n times, you will have x users “un-follow” you. You gain n times of amount of M$ given but lose x followers. If the total value of M$ exceeds value of x followers, go ahead and tweet questions, otherwise don’t. It’s actually trading away some of your network value, in exchange of M$.
4. I don’t know how’s the M$ is calculated on this part. Is it by number of tweets alone or by number of tweet-follower count ? If it’s by number of tweets alone, a way to beat the system maybe just open a new tweet account and have one bogus follower (thus “linked account”). This doesn’t add value to the community.
5. I think I’ll not use this new feature…
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I would not tweet a bunch in a row, space them out and you should be fine.
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just a thought
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@robbrown gets exactly what we're trying to do: show some appreciation and make using Mahalo more and more fun. We want to come up with 1,000 ways to earn .01 to M$100. This is but one of many ideas we're going to try.
We don't think folks will abuse it thanks to the limits we've put in place, our admins and most of all because Mahalo users are good people.
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So, I'll use the feature and appreciate the M0.10, but I won't use it any more than I did in the past. I'll still only be tweeting the odd question that I find really interesting.
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Ditto.
But if doesn't make sense to do more than the odd question, why give people a limit of 10 a day and every incentive to use it?
If the limit is one or two a day, fine.
And if it's about showing appreciation, and not just buying links for cheap, you could always up the tip to say 25c a tweet, which will still cost less than 10 questions at 10c a go.