I used to receive around 200 DM’s every day. The majority of them were auto DM’s, 
spam, unsolicited invites to join a mafia family, slap a trout on someone, play a game, or take a quiz.
Exactly the kinds of productive activities I normally engage in with my free time – NOT. I don’t have anything against these games and I actually think they are great if they help people get more out of Twitter, but plain and simple – I wanted my Direct Message box back, as I began missing valuable DM’s.
I began to click the links and search for opt-out links or instructions and put together a short list of the biggest offenders.
In 5 minutes or less you can re-claim your DM box! Here’s how:
Auto DM’s
Most of them plain suck. People have not figured out how to engage people with this opportunity and worse they are being used by spammers to send DM’s for every offer under the sun.
If you want to get rid of automated DM’s its pretty simple. The majority of them come from SocialOOmph.com and here is how you can stop them:
Go to http://twitter.com/optmeout and follow this profile.
Minutes later you will notice they are following you back.
Send a DM to @optmeout – Send anything (I used the DM “abc”)
Go back to http://twitter.com/optmeout and Unfollow and you will receive a DM that looks like this
140 games
Home to many of the quizzes, games, and yes, they have their own Mafia game.
Click this link http://lolquiz.com/optout
It will redirect back to Twitter and ask for you to “Allow LOL quiz access”
Click the allow button and your good to go.
Poll Pigeon
Home to many of Twitters top polls and another big offender of the DM box.
Click this link http://pollpigeon.com/optout/
Click the “Don’t send me any Direct Messages” button and you’re good to go.
Twables / FB140
Twables has a bunch of different applications but the most popular and annoying is an app that tells your Facebook Friends you’re on Twitter. When you opt in for this – It sends your followers a Dm that looks like the one below.
After some serious digging and stumbling across a cleverly disguised opt out link, I figured this one out and found out how to remove yourself from their list.
http://www.twables.com/opt <—– Click here to opt out of FB/140
In 5 minutes or less you can get rid of 90% of the spam you get now by doing the above steps!
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I just wanted to stop by and say thanks for this. I read this yesterday and followed the steps and what a difference. Today I had about 90% less messages. I will start paying attentions now to my DM box on Twitter.
Thanks for the DM info. I’ve simply been sending them to a seperate folder, but this is much better. Now if I get a DM, it’s more likely to be something I want to respond to.
I’ve also tweeted about your post!
Ken
Thank, Sean. My Twitter app on my phone finally gets cleaned out now instead of accumulating 58 1/2 spam DM’s every ten minutes.
Not only does it help with my addiction to the Crackberry, but it also lets me see who is truly interacting with me instead of just trying to sell me something. Love it.
This one tip alone is worth your blog subscription. Although I’ve been putting your Twitter traffic strategies to use as well. Just last week a real estate investor saw my property for sale as I added her. She called me and we might close on the property this week. Definitely an example of Twitter turning posts into real leads. Awesome!
Thanks homie, lemme know if there’s anything I can do in return.
You da man,
Robb
Thanks for the Great Tips! I’ve been trying to figure out a way to best deal with my DM’s and now Ive found it thanks!
Keep Walking with a smile Friend!
– Ted
FINALLY! I love you for this post! I am getting so annoyed with auto DMs. Getting ridiculous. I don’t even read DMs anymore.
Thanks for help us to be a little less annoyed!
Mommy D
Very, very, very cool!!!
5 minutes was exactly the amount of time I needed to complete these 4 opt outs. This will save me a lot of time every day and will add up to thousands of dollars over a years time. Thanks Sean
AMAZING!!! just what I was looking for, thank you so so much
try http://TweetWax.com: a brand new Twitter DM inbox! mass/bulk delete too!
Kind of funny that I receive SPAM from you and someone named Lewis Howes. Still trying to figure out how to get off your dm spam lists.
Paul – it’s not called spam when you opt-in! At the bottom of every email that is sent to you, there is an unsubscribe link – please do us both a favor and click that and opt-out!
Thanks for this sean never heard of SocialOOmph before
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