Comments on: Are affiliates abusing twitter?

By: peter bordes

peter bordes — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:25:50 +0000

Agreed! we are very active Twitter users for @mediatrust. It is now one of the top 3 in traffic referrals to our company site and blogs. It is extremely effective when used properly. It is great to see how fast the spammers are getting shut down on the platform.

@mediatrustpete

By: Delta Squadron

Delta Squadron — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:44:18 +0000

I think most of them abuse it that’s why there were so many Twitter users are being banned or blocked. Or maybe they are just smart because they know that Twitter can give them traffic and more leads effectively. :-) You will not be blocked and you can get more traffic if you will use Twitter properly.

By: peter bordes

peter bordes — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:24:29 +0000

good post and great topic. Twitter is attracting a lot of attention lately and now unfortunately a lot of spam. That being said i have seen some very smart publisher using the tool to create shopping alert services to deal finder twitter streams.I am curious to see how well they do vs. the social recommendation thru friends on twitter w/ affiliate links in the Tweets..

We have a very large affiliate social media marketing channel on our platform. But its made up of affiliates using everything else other than Twitter. Does anyone know of any success stories on the scale of affiliates using facebook or myspace? I think that’s the biggest issue with Twitter from an affiliate perspective. How do you get enough users to make it scale to a meaningful amount of traffic and transations.

@mediatrustpete

By: Ayako

Ayako — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:46:26 +0000

This has been my question for a while, too. I hardly ever visit the public timeline and do ask for affiliate links to the people I am following to pay it forward when I buy products online. Many people I know will note on their Twitter when they are dropping affiliate links as well. Not sure how Twitter will regulate, but maybe they will start taking some cuts in the future somehow….

By: Paul Wright

Paul Wright — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:49:57 +0000

Hi Mogul,

I’m going to have to disagree with you there. The purpose of the posts isn’t to campaign against this practice but to simply raise awareness, stimulate debate and generally get a feel for what others think of this issue. Discussing it will help in all these areas.

By: Mogul

Mogul — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:56:39 +0000

I tend to think that if current affiliate twitter practices are unacceptable, twitter will find a way to prevent them. Discussing it won’t really affect that.

By: Paul Wright

Paul Wright — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:55:51 +0000

Hey Lee,

Glad you took the post in good spirit as it was meant. I’m in agreement with you too, there’s always a few that ruin it for the rest. Hopefully merchant’s T+C’s won’t be updated on mass with “twitter restrictions” before the real benefits can shine through.

By: Lee McCoy

Lee McCoy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:39:51 +0000

Completely agree with you Paul!

As with any medium there are those affiliates that will abuse it. Just look at undesired brand bidding, unwarranted voucher code use, unethical cookie stuffing. Anything that us “good” affiliates use will be abused by those affiliates that don’t care for either the industry or those they directly affect.

People have the choice to follow me back – many don’t. But a good number of welcomed the few replies I’ve made and contributed to the site. I’m not one of those MLM tweeps that are following everyone just to get more people into their 2nd tier.

I just hope people will use twitter properly – unfortunately I doubt we’ll be that lucky!