My god, the last thing I'd want is for someone to auto-DM me after I follow them with "Thanks for following, how can I help you?"
In fact, I'm almost sure that would make me unfollow immediately.
That said, is this meant for people or for brands?
In fact, I'm almost sure that would make me unfollow immediately.
That said, is this meant for people or for brands?
You'll be surprise to discover that actually many people reply back, and a few unfollows happened due to that message in the last 6 months.
It's suited to everyone who wants to kickstart conversations, the welcome message it's just an icebreaker, as you jump into the conversation after the reply.
It's for indie hackers, product builders, SaaS founders, agencies, and so on.
That's going to be spam bots mostly.
I hope you have the good grace to retire the service once that becomes obvious, but let's just say HN requires me to assume good faith and I'll leave it at that.