surely you're joking. PLEASE tell me you're joking, because my skin is crawling.
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:01, Dossy Shiobara <do...@panoptic.com> wrote: > > On 8/22/09 5:49 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: > >> >> Spam? Privacy? Call me crazy, I know! >> > > So, who wants to form a data mining startup that crawls websites for > "follow me on twitter" links to people's twitter IDs, then correlates that > to contact email addresses for the site ... > > Easy revenue model: sell lookups from email -> twitter ID and twitter ID -> > email. > > Could this ever violate Twitter's ToS? In theory, you could build such a > service without ever accessing twitter.com - just crawl blogs and tumblr > and posterous and other such sites where folks advertise their twitter IDs, > then try to identify contact email address for the site owner. > > Clearly, there's demand for such a service - would people pay for this > data? > > -- > Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/ > Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ > "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own > folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) > -- Internets. Serious business.
