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Warning Wil Robinson!
Our first introduction to artificial life forms was on the tv show, Lost in Space. The robot was constantly waving his appendages willdly in order to save poor Wil from one danger or another.
Then, along came The Stepford Wives, one of our favorite thrillers, until Hollywood ruined it with a stupid remake in 2004. In the original, it was chilling to watch as beautiful housewives were being made into robots.
Why all this talk about robots? Because twitter has a bunch of robots wandering around.
We’ve told you before, and well say it again: If the avatar is a beautiful woman, it’s probably not really a beautiful woman. Or beautiful. Or a woman. Or even human. Here’s three twitter bots who may be following you.
@AngeliJohnson Says she’s an Ecology Warrior and posts all kinds of things about GreenPeace and Green Energy using twitterfeed (a bot). Why does she do it? So you’ll click the url in her bio and sign up for The Twitter Traffic Machine (a bot).
It looks like @lizaghaffar80 is working on the award for “tweeting the greatest number of money-making scams prior to getting suspended.” (There’s really no such award, so don’t start trying to compete, because when you do, everybody loses.) Her main squeeze is The Twitter Traffic Machine (a bot). The bio link takes you to a page that really, really doesn’t want you to leave.
@CiciChristensen is really working it, and says she is “Passionate Guitar Player, Music Lover, I Play Guitar In A Rock Band. Also Play Keyboard and Drums.” This gives her a reason to post all kinds of music links, but of course, her bread and butter is the bio link to, you guessed it, The Twitter Traffic Machine (Do we have to keep saying it’s a bot, because it is still a bot.)
The Twitter Traffic Machine‘s claim: “The Completely Automated Twitter Growth & Money Making System for People That Want to Set Up A System ONCE, Forget About It, and Have it Grow and Make Money EVERY Day!” It was created by @BillCrosby so he can make money off of other people who are more interested in getting big numbers of followers than creating relationships. If that’s what you want, go ahead and cough up your cash, so you, too, can start sending more customers his way. But before you do, check out the users he quotes on his web page. Some of those accounts have been suspended (perhaps for suspicious bot-like behavior?), and very few really do have a lot of followers. It couldn’t be that The Twitter Traffic Machine doesn’t really work, could it?
One of Bill’s selling points is:
PPPPS. Also imagine this, everytime I send out a link I get 2% of my followers clicking on it immediately. That is 400 clicks within minutes! What would that do for your business???
Imagine what would happen if you had followers who weren’t just following you so you’d follow back. What if they really found you interesting and wanted to interact with you? You might get more than 2% clicking on a link. But that would mean actually talking to people. Sounds pretty social to us.
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You Lose
When we started this blog, we got a gmail account to keep track of all our fan mail. That gmail account has proven to be quite the cash cow. Allow us to share some of the wonderful things that have fallen into our laps since March 8. We have:
- Won £1,532,720.00 in the UK 2009 National Lottery.
- Won One Million Pounds in the United Nation Development Program.
- Been awarded the sum of 750,000 GBP in the ongoing Siemens Promo.
- Been congratulated by Mrs. Stella Bruce, as we emerged a winner of the sum of €1,000.000 (Euros) from the Lottery Board.
- Been awarded the sum of $4,500,000 (Four Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in the 2009 United Nations Children Emergency Funds (UNICEF).
If that’s not enough, we’ve been found to be trustworthy, honest, and discreet enough to facilitate the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of a great number of foreign nationals. It’s a good feeling to know we can help so many in their time of tragedy and distress.
Being the greedy types that we are, even though the winnings keep piling up every single day, we were thrilled to find a risk-free way to parlay our millions into even more. Thanks to @TokyoNeon for sending us this message today:
@ManUtdArsenal is so thrilled with this fabulous deal, he’s sharing it with everyone.
What a great guy! Sending 556 replies (since April 21) to people who aren’t following him, just to make sure they don’t miss out.
We’re getting in on that sweet deal just as soon as we reply to these emails from Bank of America and Chase Bank. It would be a shame if we don’t verify all our information and lose access to our windfall.
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The Butterfly Effect of Twitter Spam
Spam was flitting and flying across twitter today for a program called “Butterfly Marketing.” I haven’t plunked down $29.95 to get my “free” copy, but I’m guessing the premise is: You pay me $29.95 to buy the program so you can sell it to lots of people for $29.95, so they can sell it to lots of people for $29.95, so they…
Here’s one of the countless numbers of affiliates, or resellers, or whatever they call themselves.
Here’s a search on “Butterfly Marketing,” so you can see how widespread the spam flies.
The mark of this scammer is that he’s sending @ replies just so he can append his URL. What’s extra nice is that some of the people he’s spamming are people who are spamming their own “twittering for traffic” scam. Hopefully, they’ll all start massively following and spamming each other, and will be blocked from the rest of us.
A Little Birdie Told Me You Fail
I swear, some people follow me on twitter just so they can end up on my blog. Otherwise, how do you explain this:
Agressive follower: check
No tweets: check
Vague claims of marketing genius: check
Clueless about how to use twitter: CHECK!
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