Jeff,
They are spammers. The automated spam robots go out and harvest new
tweets and then start supposedly "following" them, but what they are
waiting for is for you to publish a valid email address in one of your
tweets -- at which point they will send spam to that address.
Oops. By replying to one of those stranger/followers you may just given
a spammer your email address. Or maybe not. I'm not sure how carefully
Twitter protects the originating email address when you use it to send
to someone directly like that.
Kirby,
Yeah, sure SEARCH FOR TOMORROW had some redeeming social value (sorta).
So did DARK SHADOWS. Note that I said Twitter was a *worse* waste of
time than daytime soaps. Unless you are participating in a doomed
Iranian youth revolt, Twitter has no redeeming social value whatsoever.
The little value it provided in Iran was to allow their secret police to
easily identify the revolt's ringleaders and activists and put their
names on a list for later round-up. The poor, naive, wired generation fools.
-- JR
Jeff Potokar wrote:
the weird thing with Twitter, too, i am finding... i get notices from
them (as all do) when someone starts to follow you... but the weird
thing is this: i have gotten a number of these notices regarding
people following me that I DONT EVEN KNOW!! lol.. why would a stranger
choose to follow someone they dont know, even on a very casual level?
makes no sense. i got one just now, which prompted me to jump in with
a reply, here, too.
have a great weekend!
jeff
On Jul 17, 2009, at 12:00 PM, James Richard wrote:
Twitter was created for kids as a variation on a gigantic chat room.
The reason you now see everything linked to twitter is that the mass
media quickly picked up on this idea (promoted by the twitter
creators) that it would make a great online "billboard" and so they
began pushing it as advertising medium -- so naturally everyone now
links every article, story, etc. to twitter in the mistaken idea that
they will get seen by lots and lots of people (particular the young
demographic targeted by most corporations).
But twitter has grown so huge so quickly -- with a zillion of tweets
per second being posted -- that it is now all just "white noise".
Anything you might post on twitter has a microscopic chance of being
noticed or read by anyone unless you happen to be a celebrities of
some kind. For regular people their tweet has as much chance of
anyone paying attention to it as any individual drop of water in the
ocean has a chance of being noticed. Basically, it's the greatest
waste of time ever invented -- and that includes daytime soaps.
-- JR
joel katte wrote:
It seems every time I turn the news on or pick up a paper, a
story is linked to Twitter.
Just out of curiousity, do any of you use Twitter to connect
with movie poster collectors and movie enthusiasts who you
could introduce to the hobby?
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