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wallflower on Oct 7, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: How We Jumped 50 Places in the iPhone App Store - ...

> tweets from within the app...but instead we decided to also allow free-form responses risky, but important for maximum authenticity

I hope the MacHeist bundle people can learn from this.

Sending pre-constructed tweets is more like network marketing (alienate and/or annoy friends) than word-of-mouth.

JofArnold on Oct 7, 2009 [–]

We feel that pre-constructed tweets are downright lame; it's basically like saying "Hey, Mr Customer - we neither trust you nor value your opinion, but we want you to get your friends to buy our stuff anyway". Really old-school!

-- GymFu Jof

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