Comments on: Twitter gets the spammer treatment http://guesto.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/twitter-gets-the-spammer-treatment/ Aspiring Digital Raconteur Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:15:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: guesto http://guesto.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/twitter-gets-the-spammer-treatment/#comment-652 guesto Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:29:05 +0000 http://guesto.wordpress.com/?p=135#comment-652 @ Duncan, yep I agree it is a time consuming strategy, so hopefully the spammers won't bother. And that tweet squeeze article, did you see the image of the two chicks with guns on it? Love it! http://www.twittersqueeze.com/images/twitter-squeeze-header.jpg @ Duncan, yep I agree it is a time consuming strategy, so hopefully the spammers won’t bother.

And that tweet squeeze article, did you see the image of the two chicks with guns on it? Love it! http://www.twittersqueeze.com/images/twitter-squeeze-header.jpg

]]> By: Duncan http://guesto.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/twitter-gets-the-spammer-treatment/#comment-651 Duncan Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:36:53 +0000 http://guesto.wordpress.com/?p=135#comment-651 Me, I just get US real estate agents. Every time there's buzz about something new, the bottom-feeders flog their desperate software and pamphlets (see www.twittersqueeze.com for example) to still more desperate punters (and you can't get much more desperate than US real estate right now). Guess they're assuming that - now the novelty's long worn off for people opening email from anyone that sends something interesting-sounding - it's time to get on the latest social stuff and get naive users to follow them in return. I'd say that it's a desperate attempt to make spam economics work for Twitter but there's a big difference between getting an email out to a couple of million people and posting a tweet to what, a couple of hundred if they're lucky? Even Obama has less than 250k following.... Me, I just get US real estate agents. Every time there’s buzz about something new, the bottom-feeders flog their desperate software and pamphlets (see http://www.twittersqueeze.com for example) to still more desperate punters (and you can’t get much more desperate than US real estate right now).

Guess they’re assuming that – now the novelty’s long worn off for people opening email from anyone that sends something interesting-sounding – it’s time to get on the latest social stuff and get naive users to follow them in return. I’d say that it’s a desperate attempt to make spam economics work for Twitter but there’s a big difference between getting an email out to a couple of million people and posting a tweet to what, a couple of hundred if they’re lucky? Even Obama has less than 250k following….

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