Hey Guys,

 I finally disabled all the automation on my main twitter account, http://www.twitter.com/alexmerced , orignally when I set it up I wasn't much of a twitter user so it seemed a good idea to keep up with it using auto follow and auto reply. although what soon happened was more of a hastle than it was worth.

 Cause of the autofollow feature, bots of many other marketing "experts" would add me knowing they'd get auto followed sending me and automated message which wasn't so much a big deal, but my twitter stream got quickly congested with people I could care less about, which made it not so much fun to read and hard to participate in the conversation.

 So the bottomline, auto follow is a bad idea unless the twitter account in question is soley a broadcast tool, but more and more I'm using my account to communicate with friends so It became a hinderance.

 So I still think the auto respond is not a bad feature, long as you make sure to still converse using your account, but auto follow opens a can of worms.

- Alex Merced