Twitter Direct Message

If you haven’t already, you will quickly discover that Twitter has many uses. You will also quickly learn that Twitter posts (aka tweets) are very public and also tend to get re-posted.  Based on word around the web, many are using Twitter differently than they use some of the other popular social media sites. Yet, the consensus seems to be that Twitter is (and can be) used personally, socially, and professionally.

Since everything you do on Twitter is so public, Twitter has a feature called Direct Message (DM) that allows you to communicate with anyone on Twitter on a more personal or private manner. You can send a DM to anyone on Twitter and the content of the message is not shared with the Twitter community - only the person you DM’d.

Sending a DM with Twitter is really quite easy. The Direct Message feature can usually be found in the right hand column of any profile page (when logged in). Once clicked on, it brings you to the DM page where you can select a person to DM, enter your message, and that’s pretty much it! TweetDeck and Twhirl are two neat Twitter tools (with additional features) that also allow you to quickly and easily DM anyone on Twitter. Check out a comparison of Twhirl and TweetDeck - if you’re committed to using Twitter, you’ll probably find one of the two, if not both, handy.

As you become more active in the Twitter community, you will begin to get emails notifying you that you have new followers. As a courtesy, it is recommended that you somehow acknowledge your new follower. You can do this a few different ways, one of which is sending a DM. For obvious reasons, as you become more active in the Twitter community, sending personal DM’s to all of your followers can become quite time consuming. A quick and easy way to say “thanks for following me” is with Twitter DMer. Twitter DMer allows you to create unique automated DMs.

It only takes a few seconds to a few minutes to set up an automated DM. You simply log-in to Twitter DMer with your Twitter username and password, setup a custom DM, and then enable your DMer so that all your new followers get your custom message. Follow me on Twitter to find out what my automated Twitter DMer says…

So, do you think the TwitterDMer is a good idea? Can you see yourself using it?