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This is basically a spamming tool. Downvoted.

by cstross 11y ago

sameerpeace 11y ago
Thank you for your feedback. However, do posting automated tweets count as spamming?
- cstross 11y ago
  Put on your [hypothetical] black hat and consider all the myriad ways you could abuse a tool like this before you start selling it as a service. (Because abusers will flock to any new service as soon as it becomes available, in the hope that it will bypass existing defenses.)
  - sameerpeace 11y ago
    Hmm, you have a point. The worse that could happen for those abusers is get instant unfollows. Abusers user Buffer, Hootsuite and other services to repost their content, there it takes them a while to setup the entire stuff. I think I need to rethink the value it gives. The future features include providing curated good content so people can tweet them, and a tool that fetches image from a link and adds a text on it for the user to post it as a picture with a single click. This is just a start. Thanks for valuable feedback.
    - tedmiston 11y ago
      > and a tool that fetches image from a link and adds a text on it for the user to post it as a picture with a single click. I'd use that. I end up saving an image to Downloads, uploading to Twitter, then deleting the file pretty regularly.
      - sameerpeace 11y ago
        Hey, now http://socialchamp.io http://socialchamp.io can do all above in one click. It can fetch an image from a link and post it as separate image. Try it out. PS: It's being optimized to fetch images from more websites.
- gus_massa 11y ago
  The problem is not that they are posted automatically, the problem is that they are repeated. I'm not sure what the twitters user would do, but if someone sends me an email 4 times, I'll start to mark it as spam.
  - sameerpeace 11y ago
    Correct. However, you'll probably mark it as spam once you notice the 4 emails. In case of twitter, people hardly notice repeatable content, say, posted after 8 hours. And the tool allows you to auto-delete your previous tweet, and then it posts the same tweet.

This is basically a spamming tool. Downvoted.

by cstross 11y ago

This is basically a spamming tool. Downvoted.

sameerpeace 11y ago

Thank you for your feedback. However, do posting automated tweets count as spamming?

cstross 11y ago
Put on your [hypothetical] black hat and consider all the myriad ways you could abuse a tool like this before you start selling it as a service. (Because abusers will flock to any new service as soon as it becomes available, in the hope that it will bypass existing defenses.)
- sameerpeace 11y ago
  Hmm, you have a point. The worse that could happen for those abusers is get instant unfollows. Abusers user Buffer, Hootsuite and other services to repost their content, there it takes them a while to setup the entire stuff. I think I need to rethink the value it gives. The future features include providing curated good content so people can tweet them, and a tool that fetches image from a link and adds a text on it for the user to post it as a picture with a single click. This is just a start. Thanks for valuable feedback.
  - tedmiston 11y ago
    > and a tool that fetches image from a link and adds a text on it for the user to post it as a picture with a single click. I'd use that. I end up saving an image to Downloads, uploading to Twitter, then deleting the file pretty regularly.
    - sameerpeace 11y ago
      Hey, now http://socialchamp.io http://socialchamp.io can do all above in one click. It can fetch an image from a link and post it as separate image. Try it out. PS: It's being optimized to fetch images from more websites.
gus_massa 11y ago
The problem is not that they are posted automatically, the problem is that they are repeated. I'm not sure what the twitters user would do, but if someone sends me an email 4 times, I'll start to mark it as spam.
- sameerpeace 11y ago
  Correct. However, you'll probably mark it as spam once you notice the 4 emails. In case of twitter, people hardly notice repeatable content, say, posted after 8 hours. And the tool allows you to auto-delete your previous tweet, and then it posts the same tweet.