I Love Twitter - Except for the NitTwits

First, this isn't about the Twitter account "NitTwits."  It was too good to pass that account name up, so good for you.  I'm talking about nitwits who have seized on Twitter as a free and easy way to overpopulate the Internet with repetitive ads with nothing to offer except their billboard presentation.  I put them into the same category with those who buy the "more than one million realtors" email lists and send garbage to me every day.

Every morning, my first stop for news and stuff to write about is my HootSuite Dashboard.  I monitor multiple Twitter searches there, and get a lot of material, and learn a lot as well.  One of those searches, "twitter" AND "real estate," turns up a lot of ads, and I expect it to.  Every now and then there is actually something about a new and unique way to use Twitter in our business.

But, every morning without fail, there's the same exact tweet at the top, resent through some service that does that. It is exactly the same every morning, and I've found that it also gets sent out every evening as well. It's for a real estate licensing online training company in Florida. I won't help them with exposure via a link here. You can't unfollow someone you don't follow, and this is a search. So, I can't get rid of them. I just wanted to vent, and let this company know that I hope they stay in the distinct minority, as there are a great many uses for Twitter in business that I consider of value. Just not theirs.