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Posted by Oliver Gassner • Saturday, April 26. 2008

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Twitter / greensense

following: # 3,171 Followers_profile 321

(tags: twitterspammer)

Twitter / mikeziemer

following 8000+ followed by less than 900.

(tags: twitterspammer)

Twitter / Movlogger

follows 1000+ , followed by far fewer

(tags: twitterspammer)

The Road to the Semantic Web - ReadWriteWeb

Introductory article into the semantic web.

(tags: web 3.0 x.0 semantic *****)

olivergassner's Channel at Metacafe

(tags: video iregistred)

oliverg: My Show Page on blip.tv

(tags: iregistred video)

Web Design Timeline

(tags: humor webdesign fun *****)

My Page - sawubona musicjam

IBM is my customer here :) I help them talk abut Sawubona music jam on lots of channels.

(tags: iregistred)

Twitter / smallplaces

well i like literature buit I don't like twitterspammers, follows 3000+ followed by 200+

(tags: twitterspammer)

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n.l. belardes - #1 - on 2008-04-29 20:37 - (Reply): When I think of spam I think of all kinds of junkmail. The interesting part about twitter is spam isn't really spam in the sense that people are used to. It's easier than throwing away junk mail to decide to not follow someone on twitter. There's no real inconvenience of, per say, a lot of email spam. You either follow or you don't.

Adding friends, or following people is as easy as clicking a mouse one at a time. So, the direct marketing approach is really simple. And the success rate is above 10% so far.

It's been an interesting experiment for me with just adding people for the novel "Small Places." Writing is a challenge too.

I will follow through with the project and adding/following people as I go. Will be interesting to see if people keep reading, ignore the book, or just decide following isn't in their interest.

Nick Belardes
www.nlbelardes.com

oliver gassner - #1.1 - on 2008-04-29 22:12 - (Reply): The term spam originated on usenet, or actually a MOO.
And believe it or not, those *beep* generate an e-mail when they subscribe to me and I either follow without checking or I have to check out if they are somebody I know or I care about.

If you follow 6000+ or 3000+ ppl you have to be Robert Scoble to be able to really interact with those people. :)

If you just want attention without giving any, well, you are a spammer then.

If the success rate is 10% it is too high, more than 50% of my new followers that steal my time and grab my attention are twitterspammers at the moment.

This is why I tag you guys.

While I love literature and understand author's craving for attention (I write poetry and do experimentalö stuff occasionally myself) I still think this kind of 'marketing' is wrong.

You damage the channel and the medium you are using. You generate noise. You are a spammer. Period.

Think about it.