There is a new feature on Mahalo where you can make M$ by Tweeting the question to Twitter... will your friends get annoyed at you?

To me, this new feature is a "happy bonus" not a reward for pushing out Mahalo Answers links. Twitter is very quickly receiving a bad name as a source of spam. A lot of twitter users are trimming their followers lists to improve their "signal to noise" ratio.

I know that personally, I have transitioned my twitter account from a large list of followers down to a small, tight, 400 or so. From a marketing standpoint, the change hasn't affected my stats. When I send out a link, the same number of people click now as when I had over 2000 followers.

From a "noise" perspective, I enjoy twitter more because I'm truly listening back and like what I see roll across tweetdeck. So, I'll use the feature and appreciate the M0.10, but I won't use it any more than I did in the past. I'll still only be tweeting the odd question that I find really interesting.

The key with Twitter... like all Social Networks... is to never use a network solely as a promotional tool. Sure, Tweet, digg, stumble the odd Mahalo link but if you ONLY tweet, digg and stumble Mahalo links (or your blog, or whatever) you can quickly lose followers on twitter, diggers will bury your content and stumble's algorithms will ignore your submissions. It's just the nature of the social web.

If you need numbers, I would say 15% of your content should be from the same source, across the board, no matter what social site you are using. 15% should be the maximum percentage of your sharing activity towards one website. Understand social networks were communities built from the ground just like Mahalo was, we wouldn't appreciate if a user stepped into Mahalo and posted 50 questions a day about some website none of us have heard of.It's the same thing if one of us went to reddit and just blindly submitted 50 links in a row.

I saw a user do this recently and approached them and their logic was "I got a few hits" - Well the key is to get LOTS of hits using more efficient means. Why submit 50 links to 500 hits, when you can get 500 hits with each piece you share, without burning bridges along the way? My advice would be, beyond Mahalo, find a few social networks you like, build a profile, spend some time sharing and voting for other peoples content first before you even begin sharing Mahalo.

Once you've got a good idea what it takes to get attention, start sharing Mahalo pages, periodically, mixed in with good content from elsewhere around the web. Twitter is no different, if you spam Mahalo, you will lose users and potentially give Mahalo a bad name for the rest of us. Sharing 10 Mahalo links a day is do-able, just be sure those aren't the only 10 things you share on Twitter.

It might help if, in the future, you tweet questions that don't already have a best answer picked. That annoyed me. Just sayin'.

Not really, if you throw in some great updates in between. You should avoid posting all 10 tweets together. If you noticed, I tweeted them all together today, cause I wanted to try out the new feature.

Hope it didn't annoy you! :D.

Yes. Unfortunately I had to unfollow you due to the sheer number of tweets you just posted. It was/is cumbersome.Sorry.

I think friends will get annoyed if the tweets are not of use to them. They may “un-follow” your group. My opinions: 1.

Think in the line of how the Tweeting Mahalo Question will help your tweet users. If they are Mahalo users (maybe recommend them to join) and knowledgeable in the types of questions you send, your Mahalo questions tweets may be useful to them. 2.

If your tweet is not useful to them, it will be considered noice/nuisance to them. If you still want to send the “noises”, try to sandwich between useful tweets. Try not to cross certain threshold of signal-to-noise ratio below which your followers will “un-follow” you.3.

On “economic analysis”, you can think of it this way: Let say by tweeting n times, you will have x users “un-follow” you. You gain n times of amount of M$ given but lose x followers. If the total value of M$ exceeds value of x followers, go ahead and tweet questions, otherwise don’t.

It’s actually trading away some of your network value, in exchange of M$. 4. I don’t know how’s the M$ is calculated on this part.

Is it by number of tweets alone or by number of tweet-follower count? If it’s by number of tweets alone, a way to beat the system maybe just open a new tweet account and have one bogus follower (thus “linked account”). This doesn’t add value to the community.

5. I think I’ll not use this new feature….

I am a content writer and every time an article is published it is automatically twittered and posted to facebook. I do not feel I annoy people, and am gaining followers. I would not tweet a bunch in a row, space them out and you should be fine.

A (possibly unforeseen) knock on effect from this is that people may actually end up asking better questions if they know that their friends are going to see the question as well... just a thought.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.