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Went Hot: April 12, 2008 - 8:27 am
Posted By: martinbowling 182 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seocracy.com)
Category: Social Media
Using twitter as a link dump for backlinks really isn't a very disruptive use of the system. You dont need any followers, so you don't have to worry about mass-following a whole bunch of people and annoying them by inflating their follower-count or clogging their email with notifications. I really don't see any problem with doing this because it doesn't annoy anyone.
But alot of you are trying to leverage Twitter to get traffic to your sites. You mass follow a whole bunch of people in hopes that they will follow you back and then will see and click on your spam links. You've created a Twitter name like: weightloss or wuyitea or herbalremedy, or some other product/keyword. Then you're scraping some tweets from rss or from related websites, or usually news feeds. You're tweeting out maybe 4 messages a day, all at the same time, and every message has a link back to your site, or your squidoo lens.
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Let's not forget the unfollow games!
I played with one for a little while, just to see what they would do. It starts off with them following me. Then I check 'em out and see that they have at least some useful links and seem to be a real person, so I follow back.
About a day later, they have unfollowed me. Since they weren't all that useful anyways, I unfollow them. And then - here's the kicker - about a day later, they followed me again.
I went back and forth with him a couple times, then one time I didn't follow back. They are still following me, and it's been about 2 weeks =P
So thats why you've been following and unfollowing me! I'm a person damnit! Not a spam bot! :)
Good read. The right ways to do it on Twitter.
Great article. I have also had a few of the "follow and unfollow" spammers. I think Twitter is wonderful beause we can always unfollow... now we just need some type of block feature? (if there isn't one).
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not following you...
Twitter smo and linkbait spam is the worst kind of chum and is a sure sign that twitter's now mainstream. If only these waters were truly shark-infested. Till twitter figures something out we're going to have to get used to canned spam messing up our conversation flow...
Grr...