The Triberr Highway…To More

I’ve noticed Triberr has gotten a pretty bad rap lately. I’ve actually been told that it’s a tool for spamming my twitter followers. From what I’ve learned about Triberr so far, I’d say that’s bullshit. True, there are tribes on Triberr that are abusing the power of automation. But that’s not Triberr’s fault. That’s the tribe’s Chief’s fault. Keep reading, I’ll explain soon.

Why do I give a rat’s ass? Well, as y’all know I love twitter, I follow some wicked bloggers and I believe in sharing and promoting my fellow bloggers. If you’ve been by recently, you also know that I’m a busy work-at-home mama now. So 90% of time I spend in front of my mac is allotted to my clients.

That being said, my time is limited. My time to engage, my time to read blogs, my time to share awesome posts – limited. And I won’t lie to you, Twitter is where I always start. It’s very rare for me to find time to blog hop or play on facebook. Except for my closest bloggy friends that are in my inbox (Angel, you have no subscribe by email signup), everything else I read I find in my twitter stream.

Now, if I can automate something, you can bet your ass I will – within reason. I automate tweets about my newest post. We all do. We all like being able to hit Publish on a post and have it automatically posted to twitter and facebook and linkedin. So what’s wrong with automating tweets promoting a new post from a blogger you respect? A blogger you KNOW blogs with integrity.

So I’m test driving Triberr and ya’ know what? I’m liking it.

So what the Hell is Triberr?

Here are a few terms you should know:

• Triberr – an invite only website where you join via invite and build your own tribes by inviting trusted bloggers who actively use twitter.
• Tribe – a group or an exclusive circle consisting of members who support and promote each others blog posts.
• Tribesmen – the members of the tribe, your fellow bloggers.
• Chief – the person managing the tribe and inviting and approving members.

Triberr offers free tribes that max out at 7 members. You’re allowed to be a member of 4 tribes. To be added to a tribe you need to be invited, whether it be by a friend or acceptance of your application to join a specific tribe. Once you’re accepted into a tribe, you can build your own tribes. The free account allows you to build a max of 3 tribes where you would be the chief.

Triberr has systems in place to prevent your “tribesmen” from double tweeting your posts and to avoid your tribesmen all tweeting your posts at the same time (so no worries about spamming your shared followers with the same post 4 times in 5 minutes).

It’s The Chief’s Responsibility To Control Spam

Being the Chief of a Triberr tribe means you’re bloody responsible for those in your tribe and for your twitter followers.

• It’s your responsibility to know how often your tribesmen post and whether or not if it’s quality content that your twitter followers would appreciate.
• It’s your responsibility to keep an eye on your tribesmen activity, looking out for an increase of posting per day or a decrease in post content.
• It’s your responsibility to pick tribesman who’s content will appeal to your twitter followers.
• It’s your responsibility to remove tribesman who are abusing your tribes’ twitterstreams by posting crap ten times per day.
• It’s your responsibility to pick tribesmen based on the quality of their content, not the quantity of their twitter followers. Respect your twitter followers and the followers of your tribesmen.

If you have 3 tribes with 6 tribesmen who publish posts 6 times per day, (and they are publishing crap) then, yes you will be spamming your twitter followers.

Whether or not you care, is totally up to you.

If a tribesman finds that there are too many tweets from fellow members going out to his or her twitter stream, leave the damn tribe.

And hello? You don’t have to auto-tweet. It is possible to hold those post tweets in a queue and look through them and decide which you want to share and which you don’t. However, this option, using Triberr in manual mode, defeats the purpose of using Triberr to save you time.

Those who stayed in spammy tribes because the reach count is high and those who’ve been assaulted by Triberr members via their twitter stream, consider using Triberr as being spammy and anti-social. But again, that fault lies with the chief and the tribesman.

Now if you still think using Triberr is anti-social, then this must be true too: Every time you auto publish your post or share a friend’s post, you’re also being anti-social.

Triberr can be used for good. It can be used to free up your twitter time by auto-tweeting posts that you would tweet about anyway. That’s productivity people. That’s continuing to share your favorite bloggers’ posts even when you’re busy. That’s more time to engage. That’s also more exposure for your blog.

Use Triberr with integrity people.

And be cool and share this post so others will use Triberr with integrity too.

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