Fake Twitter twitterers
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- A propos absolutely nothing, I haven’t been on Twitter long and I’ve been pretty bad about looking up the people who are following me so I can maybe follow them.
That’s largely because I’m usually swamped with p2pnet.net stuff.
I haven’t done much in the way of stories today because we’d made arrangements to spend it with friends.
When we got back home it was too late to do any serious posting and I decided instead, I’d zoom over to each of the 72 people who follow me, and I wasn’t surprised to find some are obvious advertisers dressed up as Tweeters.
But some were outright spammers, and 12 led to, “Sorry the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity.”
Several featured ‘names’ such as jkgdop, or the like. No surprise there.
But others looked legit, although one was from what was clearly an escort agency.
I wonder just how many blatant and not-so-blatant promo, fake and spam sites there are on Twitter?
Just curious. 
Jon
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January 1st, 2009 at 9:30 pm
There is nothing wrong with using Twitter to tell people about products and services.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:52 pm
^^ When someone is using the site for hard-core advertising and nothing else, IMHO, that’s not on.
Cheers!
January 1st, 2009 at 10:21 pm
It’s perfectly fine to advertise on twitter but it’s hard to see how anyone could monetize from an irrelevant un-targeted audience (that’s when “advertising” it becomes “spam”)… and you need to mix it up a bit… doing noting but ad’s…that’s not what the service was for! it’s always the bloody same when a new thing comes out someones gotta spoil it for eveyone else, I’m a prospector/opportunist but i still like to keep things within reason…