
No worries, you are in luck, Social Too is the tool that will stop all auto-DMs from entering your Twitter DM/ inbox. With just a check-mark in a tiny box in your preferences area, Social Too will prevent all auto-DMs from being sent to you. At first it may take a day or so for the service to start but as soon as it does it is like magic. Once my Social Too service kicked-in, I only receive personal DMs. However I do still receive generic DMs but at least they were not sent by an automated service and it was easy to filter through genuine and generic messages. This blocking auto-DM feature is a must-have for all Tweeters, especially popular ones. Use Social Too and clear-up your Twitter DM box.
It is a simple process to sign-up, you connect with Social Too through logging-in to either Twitter or Facebook. Once connected you will have access to other great features in addition to blocking auto-DMs. Save time by using the auto-follow feature which will automatically follow back those who follow you. Automatically unfollow those who stopped following you with the Auto Unfollow feature. This feature also allows you to unfollow spam suspects. Creating surveys/polls may be the best social feature from Social Too since you can then send the polls to your Twitter followers, FaceBook, and FriendFeed friends.
If you are one who is a Tweeter and a FaceBooker then you are in luck because Social Too offers a couple useful FaceBook promotion tools. One of the tools I already mentioned above about creating and sending polls for your FaceBook profile, the other allows creation of a personalized FaceBook profile URL. This URL will be in the format of "yourname.socialtoo.com" and redirects to your FaceBook profile. Yes FaceBook does offer this feature for its users but in case you did not get the exact name you wanted from FaceBook, there is a great chance it will be available from Social Too.
I highly recomend Social Too, they are the only Twitter tool I have found to block auto-DMs. They have awesome customer service with an extremely quick response, which is very impressive since I am just a free member. Great features, customer service and best of all Social Too is free for all of the features I have covered in this post.
It is not easy being popular on Twitter, essecially once your Twitter following reaches into the thousands. So thank goodness for 3 Twitter tool gems that will work wonders for you. The 3 gems are Hoot Suite, TweetSpinner, and Easy Tweets. Hoot Suite is a must for anyone managing more than one Twitter account, it enales you to manage all of your accounts at once. TweetSpinner is my new favorite Twitter Tool with its main function is to increase productivity for business', power Twitters, and anyone wanting to enjoy
Hoot Suite
Hoot Suite claims they are the ultimate Twitter tool box and as far as free tools go they are the ultimate tool box by great lengths. This toolbox includes managing multiple accounts, URL shortening/ tracking, and scheduling tweets. They have also just added the ability to integrate Google Adsense to the links you shorten. Ping.fm integration is now available as well. Hoot Suite also offers an awesome twitter add on for your toolbar. Remember this great Twitter application is free so if you enjoy Hoot Suite and use it a lot drop them a nice donation as a thank you.
Tweet Spinner
At the time of creating this Blog entry I had just discovered my new favorite Twitter productivity application, Tweet Spinner. Why is it my new favorite, well it is in large part to Tweet Spinner's Smart friends and followers feature. This feature is similar to FriendOrFollow.com as it shows you how many people you follow who you do not follow back and how many you follow who do not follow back. Tweet Spinner takes it to the next level as it works magic with its ability to smart purge and smart follow up to 40 followers at a time instead of 1 with FriendOrFollow. Smart Purge removes up to 40 followers at a time who are not following back with the exception of the most recent 10% you followed. Smart follow does, you guest it follows up to 40 followers at time who you are not following. Another feature of Tweet Spinner is creating and scheduling smart tweets. This allows you to create templates, reuse common messages, and schedule tweets whenever you like. This is especially helpful for the busy person, businesses, marketers, and bloggers. The final amazing feature of Tweet Spinner is scheduling the rotation of profiles and designs. Which is great since it keeps your page design looking fresh and the best part is it enables the rotation of your web-link/ BIO. Tweet Spinner is free, easy to use, and in my opinion one of the best Twitter productivity tools out available.
Easy Tweets
Easy Tweets is an awesome all in one tool. It has nearly all of the features of the tools I described above plus many more exclusive features. It is worth every penny and a must for all businesses or busy tweeters. The best part is Easy Tweets does offer a free version that is loaded with enough features for those just tweeting for fun. With the free version you can enjoy added up to 3 different accounts to manage, schedule when tweets go out, shorten URLs, and submit your tweets to up to 3 different RSS readers. Easy Tweets also gives you a deck view option which looks and functions similar to Tweet Deck. For the Twitter marketer/ business users you may want to view the upgrade options which includes adding up to 100 accounts, Post tweets to multiple accounts, track feed clicks in Google Analytics, and much more.