[miguelmurca]

My god, the last thing I'd want is for someone to auto-DM me after I follow them with "Thanks for following, how can I help you?"

In fact, I'm almost sure that would make me unfollow immediately.

That said, is this meant for people or for brands?

[0des]

A lot of folks did this in the early days of twitter and I'd unfollow every time because of how presumptuous and annoying it was. Youve immediately started the conversation on a robotic and overbearing foot when you do this.

[bjarneh]

It seems pretty nuts for a person to do at least. I'm not using twitter to 'convert followers to leads' (whatever that means).

[that_guy_iain]

A lot of people are tho. And I mean a lot of people. There are numerous books on how to generate revenue via Twitter following and more books about how to build an audience to eventually sell to them.

[ikoichi2112]

Hi there!

You'll be surprise to discover that actually many people reply back, and a few unfollows happened due to that message in the last 6 months.

It's suited to everyone who wants to kickstart conversations, the welcome message it's just an icebreaker, as you jump into the conversation after the reply.

It's for indie hackers, product builders, SaaS founders, agencies, and so on.

[samatman]

It's for anyone who wants to use it.

That's going to be spam bots mostly.

I hope you have the good grace to retire the service once that becomes obvious, but let's just say HN requires me to assume good faith and I'll leave it at that.