24 Hours On TweepMe

The bare facts:
Started June 2 with 1,072 followers and following 1,048.
Deactivated June 3 with 1,420 followers and following 1,569.

Why did I start?
I volunteered to do a review of TweepMe after a quick perusal of their site.  I cleared my inbox of new followers so that the above stats would be accurate.  Then I signed in with my twitter name and password and got $2 off for sending a tweet that I was joining.  I left the API limit per hour at 50.

What happened next?
There were no further instructions so I started browsing to see if there was something else I needed to do.  I noticed a lot of standard avatars without pictures when browsing tweeps. I clicked on 2 pictures of nice ladies.  One I followed.  The other was all in German.  I have nothing against German; I just can’t understand it.

I immediately checked email and had 4 new followers.  The first two that came through had protected updates, and one’s website was in Portuguese.  Of those first four I followed 2.  Then I had 2 more followers in email.  Three hours later it said I had 66 new followers.  By 9:00 that night I had 400 emails from Twitter.  Of the first 35 I looked at I followed 11.  Two of those I blocked, 2 were French, and 2 were Spanish.  I spent 2 hours going through those 400 emails while watching a movie with my husband, but when I was done I still had 400 emails from Twitter!  It seemed like they were coming faster and faster.  I told Twitter to lock my updates because I didn’t know what was happening.  It said I was following people that I would never even read.

What was going on?
TweepMe took over my twitter account and signed me up to follow whomever they pleased.  I didn’t read that anywhere ahead of time.  I thought that they would find people to follow me and I would reciprocate if I wanted.  So don’t look at who I’m following until I get them sorted out because I’m following all kinds of spam, stupid people, and ones I don’t want to mention thanks to TweepMe.

Would I recommend TweepMe?
For people that want to actually connect and have conversation – no.  I did find a handful of people that are normal and nice.  For me the headache of wading through hundreds of emails was not worth the handful of nice tweets I found.  Plus, now I need to weed out who I am following because there are a bunch whose pages I’ve never even seen with my own eyes.

If you don’t care who you associate with  it might work for you.  A lot of the people that connected – I’m using that term loosely – with me through TweepMe are all about automation.  They have post links automatically publishing and TweepMe automatically gaining followers and following numbers through them.  Lots of real estate people!  Some twitter profiles only had 1 update and thousands in their number count.  It seemed impersonal to me even though I now have pages and pages of auto DMs welcoming me. [A quick aside - if you had an important DM for me there's a good possibility it's lost in all the junk ones.  Aargh!]

There you have it.  Now I’m off to clean out the folder with 460 emails from Twitter.  If you have questions I’d be glad to answer them.