Your new textbox

Ways to Support Each Other

Rating: 5 after 5 votes

Hello everyone!

I’m very excited to announce we have 8000+ awesome moms who have joined together on Twittermoms. With all the rapid growth, I just wanted to explain a few ways we can support each other and keep the site a healthy, fun, useful resource for moms who love to tweet!

Twittermoms was started to support moms in their businesses and personal lives. We have several options for members to promote their businesses, websites, blogs, products, and more.

1. Post a blog entry about your area of expertise, including links to your blog or website
2. Announce your contests or offers in the “Contest” group
3. List your blog or business in the DESIGNATED promotional areas within specific groups
4. Post links to your poll or survey in the “Polling” Moms group
5. Post whatever you would like on your profile page
6. Start a discussion about your area of expertise and include links to your blog

The one thing that is NOT acceptable is to send group or individual emails to members asking them to fill out your survey, buy you product or service, enter your contest or do anything else. This is considered SPAM and it’s a deadly toxin. A few bad apples can take down a great community like this, so we have to be a stickler on this point. Rest assured, this site will remain a safe, engaging, fun and and spam-free environment for all moms. We have already banned members for spam violations.

Thank you for your support, and for making this such a great resource for so many moms! Have fun!

Megan

Tags: spam

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by minnemom on September 24, 2008 at 12:46pm: Thanks for the info, ideas, and reminders, Megan. I'm glad to be a part of this great group!

Linda; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Erin on September 24, 2008 at 1:33pm: Hi Megan,

I think it's great that you are staying on top of this, sad that you have to. But i'm sure we all kind of expected it to happen especially with the rate it's been growing! Way to stay on top of things and keep it positive at the same time!

Erin; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kipling on September 24, 2008 at 1:37pm: Megan,

Thanks so much for doing this, it's a big job and takes a lot of time and it's very much appreciated! :)

Kipling; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Siouxsie on September 24, 2008 at 2:11pm: Thank you for sending out this reminder. People can also turn off email notifications if they find they are being spammed.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Megan Calhoun on September 24, 2008 at 3:15pm: I suppose my concern here is that members start "tuning out" just because of a few bad apples. This should be a positive space. There is such great content here, and wonderful connections being made. I'm asking moderators of large groups to turn off the "send messages to all members of groups" since that seems to be the most troublesome spot. That should take care of 99% of the issue.

Siouxsie said:
Thank you for sending out this reminder. People can also turn off email notifications if they find they are being spammed.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anita on September 24, 2008 at 5:35pm: I hear ya Megan and thank you for addressing this! I love this space and all of sudden today am wondering what the heck is going on.............but Erin said it - sooner or later this had to happen with the fabulous, gigantic, lightspeed growth!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Julie Northrop on September 24, 2008 at 6:56pm: Hey Megan,

First thank you so much for starting this amazing forum and for stepping in quickly to head off the building spam issues. You're concern about members "tuning out" is well founded. With all the stuff coming through lately, I almost missed this message because I just started deleting them all.

If there is anything I can do to help out. Please let me know.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dawn Pigoni on September 24, 2008 at 8:34pm: This is such a great group, a few guidelines will keep it that way.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Megan Calhoun on September 24, 2008 at 8:58pm: Thanks for everyone's support! You guys are awesome! I think we "fixed" the problem so hopefully it won't happen again! Thanks for hanging in there!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by TeresaR on September 25, 2008 at 11:28am: I want to echo the sentiments of the other ladies, Megan, and say many thanks for creating and maintaining a fun, low stress, and spam-free environment for moms!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Debra Seifert on September 25, 2008 at 10:34pm: Hi Megan:
Just found you all tonight. I hope that some moms have older children like myself. Once a mom, always a mom, even when your kids are teens and above.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sew Unique Baby Bowtique on September 29, 2008 at 4:21pm: Thanks for all the info Megan!!; ▶ Reply to This