Twittertraffic affiliate spammer johngoogle et al

June 27, 2009

You might of seen this guy. He is so prolific it’s ridiculous! Undoubly as fast as these these accounts are banned he’ll spawn hundreds more, but it gives you an insight into these people. Sadly, but undoubtably a select few of these are getting very wealthy from scamming the gullible.
There are a number of names [...]

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5000th Follower

June 24, 2009

Rather unusual this as I rarely follow anyone with numbers in their name as the huge majority are spammers. Anyway, near as I can get it, after a large jump in followers, my 5,000th is:
Name: Michael Groves
Location: Saigon
Bio: Developing the art of writing & building a career as a public / guest speaker [...]

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Mocking the follow programmes

June 21, 2009

Not sure where I’m up to on a day by day basis but for the past few weeks I’ve just limited myself to adding a few of those that follow me, rather than actively trying to build up the numbers.
I’m at about 3,700 now, without trying hard and know that without even trying hard I [...]

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Days fifteen and sixteen

June 7, 2009

Carrying on with following back most people (spammer, religious nuts and filth obviously ignored) and looking for people that are creative, funny, intelligent, friendly, and ideally share my interests – web design, computers, programming, Sci-Fi, fantasy, reading, languages, photography ,ancient history…
Today stats :

Current rank with Twitter Grader is 29,545 out of 2,313,079
Current grade with them [...]

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Milliontwits 2,000th follower: UFOHunters

June 4, 2009

Our 2,000th follower
Name: @UFOHunters
Location: Earth
Web: UFO Hunters
Bio: Hoax or History? UFO Hunters is on Wednesday nights at 10/9c on The History Channel -Follow for updates on the show (I’m not on the show. just a tweeter)

Share this on del.icio.usDigg this!Share this on RedditBuzz up!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponShare this on TechnoratiTweet [...]

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New Twitter Worm Strikes

June 4, 2009

As we are unfortunately aware, some spam on Twitter carries payloads, with links (re)directing you to phishing sites, as this current CRN news warns: Scary Scareware: New Twitter Worm Strikes.
Hardly the first and certainly won’t be the last and Twitters solution is to warn people in a blog:
“No matter how good that ‘best video’ [...]

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Days thirteen and forteen

June 3, 2009

Doing largely targetted adds now, following certain rules, like must have a profile pic and bio, be interested in SEO, webdesign, etc. Was going OK just hit the limit I could follow – interestingly it was from trying to follow back rather that to follow hundreds…
While I remember, this is a good article: Learning Twitter [...]

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12 reasons NOT to follow someone

June 1, 2009

Hypocritical I know, but seriously, go for quality, not quantity. A thousand genuine followers beats a million automated bot scraped followers hands down!
Here’s my take on it: if they don’t RT … if they don’t @reply … then it is almost certain they also don’t read YOUR posts and offer little if any value to you. Worse, [...]

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Day twelve

May 30, 2009

Strange, picked up over 125 new followers today without trying. Mix of momentum, new spammers scraping and #followfriday I guess.
Today stats :

Current rank with Twitter Grader is 57,640 out of 2,256,562
Current grade with them is 97.7/100
Followers 1,124
Following 1018
Posts 879

Tips and Suggestions
Congratulations! We could not find any areas of concern with this twitter account. [...]

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Twitter: Quantity or Quality

May 27, 2009

A guest poster at Darren Rowse’s TwiTip site posed just this question here: Twitter Followers: Quantity or Quality? in January gone. I answered the question as a comment and have decided to copy it here as I feel it fits, and sums up this site too.
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For me it’s actually a duopoly. For this one of [...]

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