Thanks, OnlyWire, For Making Me Lose Dozens Of Twitter Followers!

I’m usually a big fan of convenience software, especially software that allows me to communicate with my networks more gracefully and quickly.

So, initially I was excited about OnlyWire, (notice I didn’t put a link there, yes… that is a deliberate spurn). When I signed up for Onlywire, I had visions of easy bookmarking as I browsed the web, and seamless updating of my bookmark sites saving more time for chatting.

I value my communities and the people that I connect with as we share with one another across the social sphere. It’s a gift that I take seriously, the wonderful people I have met through social realms on the web are a virtual family I try to give good advice to and learn from mutually.  So, I don’t send spammy crappy stuff to my friends, and I sure get irritated at people who send me spammy crappy stuff! When I tweet about or write about a product, it’s because I found it relevant and am personally using it and laying my rep on the line by giving something a thumbs up.

So, imagine my suprise, and irritation, when I woke up to find my inbox full of people who stopped following me on Twitter (courtesy of Qwitter).

As I scrolled through the inbox I realized I had dozens of defectors! My disbelief grew as long as the list… What happened? What did I say that was so offensive dozens of my valued friends and community gave me the cold hard “defriend” shoulder?

My irritation turned into pure Goddess-PMS-MAD when I opened the Qwitter emails and found this email message in every one:

THANKS A LOT, OnlyWire, for sending out stupid, unrequested spam Twitters and bookmarks to my entire network under the guise of “testing” my profiles when I signed up.

You guys need to realize that if someone is social enough to actually NEED a service like OnlyWire, we are also smart enough and considerate enough of our followers to be relevant and personal.

If I wanted to bookmark or Twitter you I WOULD HAVE. I can understand if you snarked on my list because I had a “free” account, I understand free services have to pay the bills, but I had a paid premium account, and you STILL snarked my entire social list for blatent self promotion.

More suprises came when I went to Qwitter with the intention of updating my email, and found their domain to be redirected to Muggn, along with a snarky little post about how Muggn owns the Qwitter domain and thus decided to redirect it. Oh brother, fighting like little kids. Do you need a time out guys?

And to my followers who value me to be a non-spammy & logical voice in the social sphere, I am sorry…
The only saving social grace in this, is that I will now use OnlyWire…. to bookmark this article. *wink*
Anyone want to Digg it? Bwahahahaha

~Your Technology Goddess