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Please stop doing that. It's bad for the world.
by drp 16y ago
Please stop doing that. It's bad for the world.
- akadruid 16y agoPlease stop caring. Its bad for your blood pressure. Seriously, it's only Twitter. Conflict, famine, and poverty are bad for the world, but Twitter doesn't matter.
- apphacker 16y agoI disagree with the "it's only Twitter" because Twitter is becoming increasingly important to me, but yeah, not worth getting angry about. At least that's what I tell myself.
- jrockway 16y agoDestroying communities for your own personal gain is a problem that extends much beyond Twitter.
- akadruid 16y agoTwitter is not a community. Twitter is a tool. A community can use Twitter, but I think describing spamming Twitter as destroying a community is disingenuous. The success of email, usenet and blogs/microblogs etc depend on their openness and easy access to all. Which also means people can and will spam them. So spam on twitter should be seen as a natural and nessecary side-effect, not the end of twitter. Berating the spammers will only increase your blood pressure - the spammers, tweeters and Twitter itself will continue as always.
- simonw 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
- aditya 16y agoWhy? If they are providing actual value, and people care enough to follow them back - where's the bad for the world part? Unless it's just selling vi4gr4, then perhaps. But they're not actively spamming people (unless they follow them back, in which case they opted in.) I'd actually love being marketed to this way, and I think it is a viable way of allowing the marketing you want into your life. As opposed to "hot girls are waiting for you on Zoosk"
- axod 16y agoHey! Viagra makes life worth living for a lot of people... so I've heard.
- HowardRoark 16y agoInstead of manually finding interesting people on my niche, I set my criteria and let my program do the dirty work for me. What's wrong with it? I don't even spam people. I send one link to my site per every 5 witty and inspirational quotes. A few people that I met over there have contributed to my site as guest bloggers. I am not doing anything evil - just automating something that I would hate to do manually.
- swombat 16y agoYou're a waste of space. I hope your accounts all get suspended. Witty and inspirational quotes? Wow, I guess your followers should feel blessed to find themselves at the receiving end of your awesome RSS'ed wisdom. Spammers like you end up making people judge Twitter as "more spam" and giving it up before they've really tried it properly. Your followers are probably more likely than normal users to give up Twitter because it's just pointless noise. Simple utilitarian argument against what you're doing: if 10% of the Twitter population did what you do, Twitter would become mostly useless. I really hope they write scripts to detect and ban you.
- akadien 16y agoFor the sake of pointing out the obvious, Twitter already is mostly useless. Anything the previous poster can do to destroy the remainder, I'm all in favor of.
- daleharvey 16y agoyou are in favour of startups being actively ruined because you dont personally find them useful?
- akadien 16y agoIn general, no.
- axod 16y agoYou should be angry at twitter. They have made a spammers paradise. Any blame should rest with them IMHO.