twitter fail blog

Sometimes these things write themselves. That’s great, because sometimes we have to do actual work, so this means we get to skate a little.

We’ve taken to using Seesmic to manage our twitter account, because we can set up userlists of our buds, and separate windows for any search we want to run, so we (hopefully) don’t miss our friends’ tweets. When we saw this tweet to our friend, @jackassletters, we went to investigate.

@get_webtraffic may be miffed, but we say if the first 7 tweets you post are ads to people who are not following you, you just may be a spammer. This guy has a total of 12 tweets, and we’re posting them all here so you can judge for yourself.

We’re guessing @get_webtraffic, who so far has NO, count ‘em: zero, posts about “getting web traffic,” but does link to a website where you can BUY web traffic (yeah, that’s a good thing) is one of those politically-correct junkies who doesn’t like it when you call anything by the name it really is. Kind of like how stewardesses get all uppity when you call them a stewardess and won’t let you call them an air waitress, either, even though it’s perfectly accurate, thank you very much.

He also has twitter accounts under the username of @a1webtraffic and @buy_webtraffic, where he is tweeting the exact same tweet to bunches of people who aren’t following him (beginning to sense a pattern here) that happen to link to the oldest, lamest SEO advice we’ve seen in ages.

A closer look at the bios on these three accounts shows that this tweep is confused about whether his name is Michael or William. We’ll just call him Donald.

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