Normally I receive around 200 DM’s every day. The majority of them are auto dm’s, spam, unsolicited invites to join a mafia family, slap a trout on someone, or play a game, take a quiz. Exactly the kinds of productive activities I normally engage in with my free time – NOT. I don’t have time for games or quiz’s and I choose to use my free time doing different things. I don’t have anything against these games and I actually think they are great if they help people get more out of Twitter, but plain and simple – I wanted my Direct Message box back, as I began missing valuable DM’s.
I began to click the links and search for opt-out links or instructions and put together a short list of the biggest offenders.
Auto DM’s
I actually use an auto DM and advise others to use them, but the sad truth is most of them plain suck. People have not figured out how to engage people with this opportunity and worse they are being used by spammers to send DM’s for everything to “how to care for my pet” (i dont have a pet) eBooks – to “How to grow my Twitter following” eBooks (I wrote that book ).
If you want to get rid of them its pretty simple. The majority of them come from SocialOOmph.com and here is how to stop them.
Go to http://twitter.com/optmeout and follow this profile.
Minutes later you will notice they are following you back.
Send a DM to @optmeout – Send anything ( I used the DM “abc”)
Go back to http://twitter.com/optmeout and Unfollow and you will receive a DM that looks like this
140 games
Home to many of the quizzes, games, and yes they have their own Mafia game.
Click this link http://lolquiz.com/optout
It will redirect back to Twitter and ask for you to “Allow LOL quiz access”
Click the allow button and your good to go.
Poll Pigeon
Home to many of Twitters top polls and another big offender of the DM box
Click this link http://pollpigeon.com/optout/
Click the “Don’t send me any Direct Messages” button and your good to go.
Twables / FB140
This is a brand new one that just started circulating. Tewables has a bunch of different applications but the most popular and annoying is an app that tells you Facebook Friends your on Twitter. When you opt in for this – It send your followers a Dm that looks like the one below.
After some serious digging and stumbling across a cleverly disguised opt out link – I figured this one out and found the opt out link.
http://www.twables.com/opt <—– Click here to opt out of FB/140
With taking 3 minutes and following the steps above, I have reclaimed my DM in-box and now receive around 20 DM’s a day.
If you know of any other DM offenders please leave a comment with the link or instructions and I will be glad to add them to this list.
