Are DMs part of your Twitter engagement strategy?
Many popular Twitter handles discuss the importance of DMs as a way to engage with people.
I'm currently experimenting with a DM welcome message for every new follower, just as simple as "Thanks for following me! How can I help you?".
I've had many interesting conversations with people from around the world because of it.
I believe it is important to help people and understand your audience.
What are your opinion and experience?
I use this tool Hivoe to send automatic welcome messages to my followers. It's a great way to get to know my followers.
It seems to work because I didn't catch on that it was an automatic message!
A great one Luca. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome @SatyendraSahani 🙌
I hope that my experience can help you as well.
Yeah 🙌
I don't follow many people, once I followed someone. Got an automated message "Welcome to my community" 🤦♂️ Insta-unfollow.
By looking at the numbers and dates, I doubt it's a good working strat.
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Recently I was going to message someone I follow (who follows me back), I didn't notice it was an automated message at first that saying "he might be busy". Second time I get the same message, I lost my interest to get in touch really.
I don't think there's a direct correlation between the growing stats and this kind of engagement.
As that message was sent after the follow, the aim is not to grow the audience, but to know who follows.
Surely, to insist on multiple automated messages is not the best approach.
That's for sharing your thoughts! 🙌
I don't think there could be a more direct correlation. I get an automated message, I don't reply and unfollow. It's rather shrinking the stats.
If someone who'd genuinely interested to have a conversation, they could take a minute to skim through my timeline and start a meaningful convo, that's at least what I'd expect.
On the other hand business relations doesn't necessarily require genuineness or sincerity so it can potentially work for that purpose, with a few fake laughs and oh yeah it was automated but tell me about your life. Et voila, you have broke the ice and have someone new to like and retweet your content who'd expect the same in return 🤷♂️
You just need an auto responder bot responder bot 😏
Yeah let's fully automate engagement, bots can prepare weekly reports to tell me whose bot is funnier, whose struggling.
Interesting!
Any insights that you gathered from your talks? Is it worth the "effort"?
I just started out using Twitter, so I'm curious to learn if I should do this.
Thanks! Good luck with everything!
Hey @decryptom!
It is definitely worth it in my experience.
I talked to many people and made good connections with them.
I discovered what they were working on, I found mentors, I shared my knowledge, and received feedback.
Anyway, I think that's something you should experiment with by yourself 😉
This kind of tactic quickly starts to feel disingenuous to me. Do you get the sense your followers feel that way at all? Maybe I'm just overthinking it.
Actually, the results are very good.
Some of them don't notice that the first message was automated, they reply back and I jump into the conversation by myself.
Even if someone notices that's probably automated, if they ask if it is, I start anyway a conversation, which is good anyway 😉
The final aim is not to grow the numbers / stats, but to talk to people.
Without this message, I had 0 one to one conversations.
Good point!