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Twitter: Use a Picture, Look Less Like a Bot

by John Coronella, November 26th, 2008
The Default Twitter Icon Says You Aren't Worth Following

The Default Twitter Icon Says You Aren't Worth Following

If you are on Twitter, use a picture and not an animation or logo. You will:

  • You will look less like a bot
  • Acquaintences will recognize you
  • You will get more followers
  • Followers will pay more attention to what you say.

Kudos to my old colleague Chris Cummings who made a brave step forward and switched from an icon to a real photo on Twitter Already I pay more attention to his Tweets, and I suspect his followers will increase at a faster rate.

Some of you still don’t get it.

If your goal in social marketing is to gather a bigger following, use a PICTURE of yourself. Nothing says ‘I’m a Robot’ like a cartoon gif.

Credibility is always an issue, and if you are just a social marketing shill pretending to be what you are not, not using a real picture is a dead giveaway.

BTW: I heard the new motorola krave might cause cancer.

Added 12/1/2008: We Build Pages points out another reason you may not want to be a bot.

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One Response to “Twitter: Use a Picture, Look Less Like a Bot”

  1. Mathilde Piard Says:
    December 4th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    I remember harassing friends to get them to put up facebook profile photos way back in 2005.

    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7943658135