Spammers discover Twitter as their new venue to show off

Before any misundestandings arise: Twitter’s architecture is ingenious because you have to click “follow” until you can be spammed!

Seems like Twitter finally hit the tipping point, as Hjörtur mentioned in his post from yesterday. And yes, there are good and sad stories associated to this platform, which @hjortur was also so kind to summarize.

That being said… As a web strategist I am constantly on the prowl for new ideas. Good and bad ones alike. And yesterday I got my first post of a person who twitters updates on a certain product and sent me an invitation to follow them on twitter which marked the coming of the darkage for Twitter-Land ruining this spam-free atmosphere that was – until now – out there.

Anyhow… this person proclaimed to search the web for the cheapest offers, updates and all associated content regarding one certain product. When I reviewed their last tweets, the links contained therein all led back to one single URL which was – curiously enough – focussed solely around this product. My three newest pairs of boxers that it was their URL

Update: another email I received today sold a certain product. And if yesterday’s mail wasn’t, this one was so obvious SPAM that I was about to report it. And then I remembered… this person doesn’t need to be reported because they can’t harm ANYONE without getting people to sign up with their Tweets Darn, I love Twitter for forcing SPAMMERS to have to invite their prey

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