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Why Is Quora Mass Creating Twitter Accounts On Mechanical Turk?
- bradleyjoyce 16y agoah yes, more post title traffic bait my Michael Arrington. I guess that's what you have to do when the thing you're posting about isn't really all that interesting.
- grandalf 16y agoI"d guess it's to get around the follow limit.
- dotBen 16y agoThey're likely to fall foul of the Twitter TOS rule that you will have your accounts deleted... "If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates;" Which if they're doing an RSS>Twitter spool then this would be the case. I'm guessing rather than just banning all their accounts, Twitter will probably reach out to them and do a biz dev deal or something... If there is a value to Quora in having these setup then there is a value they're prepared to pay Twitter for.
- sthatipamala 16y agoI am not sure how strongly that ToS rule is enforced. For example, the News.YC account (http://twitter.com/hackernews http://twitter.com/hackernews) consists entirely of FP links
- brianbreslin 16y agoThis makes sense and seems like a perfect use case of mturk
- adambyrtek 16y agoManually churning out Twitter accounts instead of using dynamic RSS/Atom feeds makes me sad. It's not even "worse is better", maybe it should rather be "worse is cooler"?
- benologist 16y agoThis just feels like the next generation of SEO tag-spam if they need so many twitter accounts they have to farm out the creation. Twitter should nip it in the bud before we see stuff like Engadget's monster tag lists becoming twitter accounts spewing out 80 different tweets about the same story.