oliver gassner - #1.1 - 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.