Like Ike or Julie, I tend to think there’s no ‘wrong and right’ here. I know that if I were following any of these people and saw this I’d likely unfollow all of them immediately. That doesn’t mean that what they’re doing is wrong, it just means that it doesn’t feel right to me. I try to keep my Twitter as conversational as possible and just don’t find a lot of value in mass tweets. The same can be said for RTing yourself, which some people use to great effect and others think is a great Twitter sin and totally wrong-headed. (I don’t do it, but I’m not sure I hate it, and I feel better about it than example tactic in the post)

If they really care about the subject, the message would be much stronger if all the tweets were ‘hand written’. Maybe that’s the issue for me – that they are part of a group action supporting this content, but don’t take a moment to type up a quick (human) message, makes me *feel* like they don’t really care the content they’re sharing or their own credibility. And, by extension, they appear to not really value my (light) investment in following them on Twitter.

Again, while I wouldn’t say that what they are doing is absolutely wrong, it is absolutely the wrong way to get through to me.