[onion2k]

Twitter has a new policy that states if you're blocked by a small number of people in a short space of time then your account will be shadow-banned (you can tweet but it won't show up in people's timelines). This is probably a quick and easy way to get caught out by that.

[ship_it]

Quick fix: create new account that will check if tweets are visible to that user.

[troydavis]

If your marketing strategy involves throwaway Twitter accounts (or spamming strangers via Twitter), you’re doing it - for any definition of “it” - wrong. Come up with something better; it’s not hard.

[cod3boy]

Thanks, this is something real quick the team did in a day for our internal use. This is more like Ask HN, I am open to ideas and thoughts to do it better :)

[ship_it]

You obviously do not work in marketing.

[troydavis]

Or I do but I’ve read and agree with http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/permission-m... (and the book, short though it is) and other experts. Godin says it perfectly:

> … the new power of the best consumers to ignore marketing. It realizes that treating people with respect is the best way to earn their attention.

Basically, a marketer trying to force their stuff on people - interruption marketing - either doesn’t understand their value proposition well enough to spot ways that it can actually help customers, or is too lazy to act on those ideas.

[cod3boy]

Yes! :D

[cod3boy]

Thanks, will take care of that.