Over the last few weeks I have been scouring Twitter for mentions of unrelated pitches and similar with surprising results. The tweets below are the sort of tweet that crops up a lot. But before we get to that, here are two more recent examples of blogs receiving and complaining about unrelated pitches.

The first was written by Chris Houchens over at his blog shotgunconcepts.com, within his blog post entitled: PR firms and bloggers are like matches and gasoline.

“For some reason, I keep getting emails from a PR firm who wants me to write about MRI machines here on the Shotgun Marketing Blog. They have not researched. Shoddy research doesn’t count either. I get a few pitches a week wanting me to write about guns and/or ammunition”

Chris offers some excellent pitching tips, I urge you to read his post.

Next up we have Eric Stoller and his excellent post #EDU11: You Give PR a Bad Name. The post basically summarises his unrelated pitch frustrations with the PR industry. He comments in his post:

My inbox swells with PR pitches from a variety of strangers who work for unfamiliar PR firms. They are often representing well-known higher education technology providers. However, they are almost always pitching something that has absolutely no relevance to this blog or the audience for which I write. Most of the PR pitch emails read like they came out of an email shotgun. They are not targeted, customized, or contextually relevant.

If you are reading this and are in need of some blog pitching help, please check out his post:

10 posts and loads of tips to help PERFECT your blogger and journalist pitching technique

Below are 17 more tweets regarding unrealted pitches.

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/MommyJenna/status/121597293823668225"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/ClueWagon/status/121560211390595072"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/DailyDeadline/status/121299296808206336"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/wafowler4/status/119566435847651329"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/lauramholson/status/119043702260908032"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/NinaSunshine/status/121637517178052608"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/Barking_Mad/status/121631243770150912"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/EricStoller/status/121725694685364224"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/KimMoldofsky/status/122381992418488320"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/MonroeOnABudget/statuses/122191564620578817"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/daveweigel/status/121703126200885248"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/andrewphelps/status/123777716754460672"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/CathyWebSavvyPR/status/123563134391820288"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/leighalexander/status/123872890151108608"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/astridgalvan/status/123993558389764096"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/TheLeakyBoob/status/124850383280553984"]

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/TechyDad/status/125725576853073921"]