Getting Rid Of Twitter DMs

If you are either a popular Twitter person or just like to use any kind of those “Gain A Lot Of Twitter Followers Fast” programs, you have probably had problems with receiving mass Twitter direct messages (or DMs).

Apparently it is very popular to setup an automated scrip so that when a certain account is followed that account will automatically distribute a DM with their affiliate link or something like that to everyone who follows them. It usually looks like this: “Hey thanks for following! If you want to earn money online click here LINK.com”. Some DMs are more imaginative than others but all of them annoy about the same.

Twitter viruses?

Next to the automated scripts setup by users themselves, we also have the standard Twitter-virus-auto-DM-sending-infections that will infect your account and automatically distribute DMs to your followers. These work similar to those viruses that you can get via e-mail and which automatically send themselves to all your address book contacts. You need to watch out for those because they will KILL your account and everyone will hate you. Especially if you have a corporate account, imagine how bad that is for the companies image.

Follow programs vs. manual following

Somewhere at the end of last year I started using a Twitter following service (going to write about it soon) where you follow others and earn points. You can then use those points to award users that want to follow you and so on. I’ve been using that on the @TheKReactor account for the Knowledge Reactor website and ever since I have been getting a few DM messages from every person I follow.

The messages are really annoying and extremely useless. Got about 450 of them in a month and I never wanted to waste my time deleting them. Generally I was  afraid for my account that it would be flagged as spam for having so many undeleted messages. That motivated me to find a quick delete solution.

I have never and I mean NEVER had a useless or spammy DM sent to me while following people manually. When I see someone tweeting about something interesting, I click follow and see what that person is about for the next few days (See how I got 300+ Twitter followers without mass following others). I guess this is another reason to ignore all those auto-follow programs – I have yet to find a good one. They all seem like questionable Twitter marketing tactics to me.

Mass deleting Twitter DMs with a single click

I found a great tool which does the job perfectly although I can not guarantee that it won’t pick up your personal Twitter data Just to be sure, I changed my Twitter log-in password before using it and then changed it back after.

You go to this link: http://dcortesi.com/tools/dm-deleter/ and you can read about it. To make it work you need to find the link “Bookmarklet: DM Whacker” where the word DM Whacker should be a link. You will want to drag and drop that link to your bookmarks bar.

After you do that, you log into Twitter, go to your DM inbox and click the bookmarked DM Whacker link which contains a snippet of Javascript code that will generate a few options on your Twitter page that look like this:

Now you can edit in a few options and click the “Delete!” button. After that you will have to wait depending on how many DMs you have. I had 450 and waited less than a minute for the scrip to do it’s magic. After that, not a single DM in sight.

Conclusion

I hope my post has helped you get rid of your inbox spam. Watch out for viruses and automatic DM scripts because they can discredit your Twitter account over night. Let me know in the comments your experience with DM spammer and how you deal with them. Do any of you use any “Get Followers Fast” services?