In fact, it’s because I love Twitter that I’m concerned. As I said, I don’t think it’ll make it as just a social network. And I want Twitter to make it!

Now let’s take yet another step back and not forget the world was still spinning before Twitter cut out recurring tweets. As business owners we need to adapt with technology. Twitter is just one of many tools at our disposal. The greatest tool we have is our minds, continue to use that to think of new and creative ways to grow your business. My message to twitter: You broke my heart a little but I still love you!

I think twitter’s elimination of repeats is the wrong move for twitter. The spammers already have very effective tools to get around this. For example, using multiple link shorteners and multiple landing pages combined with a little random text. The users they will lose are the ones they want the most.

That said, this is probably good for the users in the long run because it opens the door wider for competition. Competition, if nothing else, spurs on creativity. It is even good for Twitter because they are less likely to be treated as a monopoly by the government.

Lately, I’ve been seeing a new type of spamming. People who @ tweet me out of the blue trying to “converse” with me. But they have nothing to say and aren’t asking anything relevant. I think they are just trying to use the “conversation” or “relationship” method to gain followers, by trying to strike up conversations out-of-the-blue with random people. I think that’s just as spammy and sleazy as mass following, personally.