Comments on: Twitter Spam Doesn’t Work

By: SebastianWeber (Sebastian Weber)

SebastianWeber (Sebastian Weber) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:19:04 +0000

Twitter Comment

@michaelhopf but #Twitterspam is also ineffective [link to post], http://bit.ly/92I5u (but free to spammers :-/)

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5 Lessons About Self-Promotion In Social Media | davefleet.com — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:01:53 +0000

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By: Nate Long

Nate Long — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:28:20 +0000

What a ridiculous stunt! He probably thought, “Hey this is Twitter; there’s nothing to lose.” He clearly doesn’t understand Twitter…

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:59:05 +0000

As with any business or ad campaign decision, it takes just one lapse in judgment to leave a bad impression upon the masses. In this case it happened at the speed of the Internet and at the expense of his own brand.

If he was promoting his employer, he might suddenly find himself unemployed today. Something else to think about…..

Moral to the story: Think things through. Bounce it off a trusted confidant. Lastly, sleep on it. If you wake up still feeling iffy, then dump the idea

By: April

April — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:29:21 +0000

Behavior like that is the reason why people think marketing is evil. I’m amazed that people would try to use something like Twitter for this type of spammy marketing without first trying to understand it and then tying it to Mumbai is just plain inexcusable.
I would add to your lessons learned – ‘Nobody Wants to do Business With Idiots’.
April

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:20:20 +0000

And, of course, if the YouTube channel is truly NSFW you can report him to YouTube. I’ve kilt a few spammer’s precious accounts that way.

Mind you, this Alltop spam is really bugging me. I’m getting identical tweets from multiple people, and it turns out some don’t even know Alltop is doing that. Kawasaki’s usually classier than that.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:18:41 +0000

For the record – seanzyville is now down to 0 followers!

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:15:19 +0000

Never underestimate the intelligence of your (supposed) target audience. This Twitter “user” found out the hard way that news online travels faster than spammy and immoral ads – hopefully it may start sending out messages to like-minded individuals.

Thanks for posting this, Dave, I wasn’t even aware this had been going on.