Comments on: Twitter Black Hat: A Rant, Not Tips

By: Aaron

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By: admin

admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:50:35 +0000

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By: John Taylor

John Taylor — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:49:17 +0000

Interesting blog post. What would you say was the most important marketing factor?

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Sarah — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:33:18 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:38:16 +0000

Twitter is full of plagiarized info that people are claiming as their own. It’s really not a black hat technique, but just spam that is spewed by people who don’t have the creativity or original ideas of their own to share. It’s a problem because it just contributes to the overall noise in the social space.
Thanks for commenting Scott.

By: Scott Jacob

Scott Jacob — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:04:39 +0000

Another one I’ve seen recently is when folks sign-up for free webinars or radio shows and then parrot the information they are receiving right into twitter as their own. Maybe this isn’t Black, but it certainly smacks of plagiarism and just plain laziness!

By: Gyutae Park

Gyutae Park — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:32:02 +0000

Very interesting list! Like anything else worthwhile, many people will try to game the system for their own personal gain. With Twitter still being relatively new, it’s pretty easy to do so right now, but hopefully they’ll be able to tighten things up and clean up the spam.

By: Business Trends

Business Trends — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:07:50 +0000

(white) hat off to you, Chris – you pulled that one out nice “succeeding is all that matters”. The Social Media Club has only one rule – there are no rules, so we’d better keep our eyes open.
Good post, well done!

By: Carolyn G-Tu

Carolyn G-Tu — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:35:49 +0000

At first I was thinking that black hat was the wrong term for this – but thinking about it a little more – it is spamming – maybe it’s more poor marketing. I’ve probably unfollowed more people in the time I’ve been active than I’m currently following. I’m a real estate agent and for about 3 months I was showing up in the top 15 for the term real estate in twitter search people – I hated it – people followed me because either they were spammers or were looking for a collection of real estate people. I don’t really pay much attention to the people who add/delete me any more. I add followers only on my terms and I’m quick to unfollow if I realize I’m not enjoying their twitter stream. If you really “know” who you are following then it is easy to avoid the spammers – if you discover you are following accounts like this, hit the unfollow button – you won’t miss them a bit.