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Posted on December 18, 2009
Terri Nakamura
January 1, 2010
Hi, raincoaster,
You posted a rather rude and obnoxious tweet to me yesterday. I don’t know you, I’ve never heard of you, and wanted to let you know that people send “Happy New Year” tweets to one another because, at least in my case, I REALLY MEAN IT.
Blocking you now.
Best regards,
Terri Nakamura
raincoaster
January 2, 2010
Were you one of the ones I sent this to:
“Please don’t DM links unsolicited like that. It’s a classic spammer technique.”
Or were you the person I’d never seen who rt’d someone else’s Happy New Year and included me in it, even though I didn’t know you? Because otherwise I have NO IDEA who you are or what I could possibly have said to you. And I’ve gone through my Twitter stream to make sure.
raincoaster
January 2, 2010
Ah, I see what it was. You rt’d someone else, who’d @’ed me with what I considered an excessively self-promotional linktweet:
TerriNakamura RT @KentBeatty: Happy New Year 2 All! http://ow.ly/Rqyk ,my latest post at kentbeatty.com :) @LoriMoreno @mlomb @raincoaster @ariburton
And I replied:
But @KentBeatty: @terrinakamura Spam prefaced by “Happy New Year” is still spam.
So my question stands. Why did you do that? Like you said, you don’t know me. I looked at Kent’s Twitter stream, and he was @’ing all kinds of people with that, which is just ONE STEP TOO FAR. It’s perfectly reasonable to make a post and tweet it; you only @ it when it’s something that that particular person needs to see. Otherwise, however well-meaning you may be, you are just spamming people.
And then you came in and rt’d it. I still don’t understand that. Maybe he’s your friend; maybe he’s your brother; maybe he’s your husband, I don’t know. But you say you wish Happy New Year to only to people who you wish well, and I have never been on that list. Okay…but you rt’d someone else’s spam addressed to me, wrapped up in a holiday greeting from BOTH of you. He sent it, you sent it again. To a stranger.
Why?
I haven’t given up on this as resolvable, but if you think situations CAN be resolved when you cut off communication as a first step, you perhaps need a refresher on communications theory. You stated part of your case here; now take the opportunity to state the rest of it.
[edited to add] Kent’s response that you can’t please everyone, especially raincoaster, is cool. I respect that he’s just chalked it up to experience and moved on. I have no issue with him.