A note from Brad: Twitter Police
Recently there was a situation where I made a very bad decision – calling out a local businesses on what I considered irrelevant information regarding the #greenvillenc tag. I do not determine relevancy neither does any other Twitter user – Relevancy is determined by the community who uses the tag, not one central source aka “The Twitter Police”.
To play back the scenario in case this is new – here it is.
I sent a public tweet to East Carolina Tech (@ecarolinatech) saying their last 3 tweets were irrelevant to the #greenvillenc tag… like I said – bad decision on my part. From there it spiraled into a back and forth over the issue with other users. What you did not see is the exchange of emails between me and the owner of East Carolina Tech.
Here is a snippet of the apology I sent to him:
“What has now transpired is very unprofessional on our part considering the very thing we are trying to do (educating everyday business owners on the use of social media) and that both concerns me and irritates me at the same time…
GreenvilleTweets group was built around one principle – everyone is invited and no one looked down upon – and that very principle was shot yesterday and last night. I have spent time, money and resources to build this up as I am sure you have with East Carolina Tech and calling a legit business a spammer without knowing the entire situation is bad form.
I wish you and your company the best and I hope we can all come out of this better.”
If this situation put a bad taste in anyones mouth – I apologize, I was in the wrong.
So let’s say bye to “The Twitter Police” and hello to an open platform that accepts any and all tweets regardless of personal interest.
Sticking with the slogan – “All are welcome”
If you have questions let me know below – I will answer them. You can always email me at brad@bradproctor.com as well.
Thanks for reading.
-Brad
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David Moore