By Nathan Hangen, follow him @nhangen.

I can’t help it…sometimes my Twitter feed makes me want to scream. I’m reading through my DM’s and wondering what people are thinking when they send me this stuff. I don’t want to make 4,000 per month with Twitter (I do this fine on my own thank you), I don’t need 1,000 followers by the time I wake up, and I don’t need any gifts, free-reports, or webinars. Look, there is absolutely nothing wrong with pitching people on Twitter, but this DM madness has got to stop. While we are on the subject, let’s get specific about how not to pitch on Twitter:

• Only sending out affiliate links


• Attaching people’s names to your affiliate links (i.e. @nhangen @problogger http://myaffiliatelink.com Great Tips!)


• Using automated software to auto-tweet your links based on search in batches of more than a few per hour


• Auto-DM’s with an affiliate link, free-report, or anything else mentioned above

There’s a right way to pitch and a wrong way, but for some reason most of the people on Twitter take the most annoying and least effective route as pos