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Auto-Favorite Tweets to Trigger Automated Emails to Thousands of Twitter Users and Hope Lots of them Follow You
by kevinconroy 13y ago
Auto-Favorite Tweets to Trigger Automated Emails to Thousands of Twitter Users and Hope Lots of them Follow You
- jere 13y agoIt does seem kind of spammy, but to play devil's advocate: 1) At least the favorites are related to the account. I get favorites from spam bots all the time with seemingly no connection to anything. 2) I might be wrong, but I believe by default emails are only sent if the favorites come from people you already follow. So it clogs up your "Connect" tab, but not your inbox.
- omershapira 13y agoYes, this form of social engineering is just a minor annoyance. Still, there are multiple ways of making the world a better place if you only had those 15 seconds of attention back.
- jamesbritt 13y ago"I might be wrong, but I believe by default emails are only sent if the favorites come from people you already follow. So it clogs up your "Connect" tab, but not your inbox." The thing is, I'm more interested in knowing about new people who favorite a tweet of mine than people I already follow. So I've set the notifications to 'Anyone'. Sadly, this has become largely spam, i.e. useless.