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> First one I started 10 years ago. I built a bot that auto DMed people in various internet forums. My first 100 users came from that. Isn't this by definition
by Crazyontap 2y ago
> First one I started 10 years ago. I built a bot that auto DMed people in various internet forums. My first 100 users came from that.
Isn't this by definition Spamming people as you were using bots to mass DM people?
- brailsafe 2y agoThis might be the reminder bot
- davedx 2y agoYes. Surprise surprise, most businesses generate most of their initial sales via cold calls/emails/DMs/other automated marketing. That’s the real world
- jainvivek 2y agoAnd because they create so much noise, no option left for a new comer other than trying to shout louder than them. All-in-all a vicious cycle of spamming!
- gryn 2y agoThis is older than the ideas of the internet itself. Channels get saturated and marketers start looking for new ones with les noise/competition. The oldest that I can think of is old school markets where is shops yells to tell you how good of a deal you're gonna have if you buy from them. I think they date back to the middle ages, no?
- mlhpdx 2y agoOlder, almost certainly. The discovery of advertising murals and graffiti in Hereculum makes me smile a little. Humans have been humans all along.
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- shakow 2y agoA.k.a. the marketplace (the literal one) 50 years ago!
- mimischi 2y agoWhat do you mean, 50 years ago? Go to any smallish town in German and you’ll find a farmers market about once a week, with people shouting at passerby’s to buy their cheap produce. Probably the same in most European countries, and I’d wager in many other parts of the world?