Just a little note for #brands, #businesses, and #corporations: I view follows from accounts I don't recognize as belonging to private individuals as inherently spammy.
I don't believe for a moment that a business account is interested in anything I might say, so their only reason for following me is to get my attention and hopefully a hit on their website.
Don't even bother. If you're running an account for a #brand, #business, or #corporation you should fuck off.
@starbreaker I'd like to offer another view, an experience I had with corporate accounts on the bird site. I had corporate accounts follow me, I interacted with them, and I know for a fact they are genuinely interested in what I say. You see, I work on open source keyboard firmware, and these corporations happen to use code I have written. They are interested as a corporation (some of them follow me on their personal accounts too), we had great chats. There ARE cases when business is interested.
@starbreaker I have not met any such corporate/business/brand accounts here yet, but I fully expect that at some point, I will run into one where the interest is mutual, where they can offer much more than a lure to their website. When they don't want to sell me anything, but are interested in what I do.
I realize that this is the exception, and that most brands and similar things are not like this. But I wouldn't report any and all corporate and business accounts, just deserving ones.
@algernon I didn't say anything about reporting corporate and business accounts. If all they do is follow me, especially if they don't have a posting history, I'm content to block them.
But if they post offensive shit, I'll report them, too.
@algernon That's fine. Thanks for taking time to reply.
@starbreaker That's reasonable. I wrote about reporting primarily because some of the replies to your original toot talked about it, and I wanted to emphasize to future readers that doing so may not always be the right thing to do. (But alas, lacked the characters to also @mention others, sorry about that!)