This morning I launched a new spotify playlist for the worlds saddest songs.. (cheesy, embarassing, songs you are ashamed to listen to). The twitter crowd that I know went back and forth with artists and songs and then I decided to have a little fun with Caius, I wondered how many people would spot a fake retweet;
As Caius pointed out he would have typed TheHodge so it was easily spotable but still it was pretty easy to do.
I start to think how easy that system could be abused but then lunch time happens and well… I forget.
Flash forward 3 hours, Caius yet again has his name mentioned
RT @Caius: SIMPOL is a new RAD tool that enables a developer to write once & run on Linux, Mac-OS and Windows.www.simpol.com
erm…what? Caius didn’t tweet that… and I promise it wasn’t me!
Turns out that theres a lot more people retweeting with fake messages and its really not on.
Update : As soon as I clicked published and I checked twitter, turns out that 89! days ago Caius asked what the project was, rather than replying with a message the advertisement was displayed as a retweet (the bloke has also deleted all his tweets and started from scratch), I still stand behind my claim that his is happening and its going to happen more.
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Unprotecting ones Twitter profile after being a tweeter for ages is quite an eye opener. I’m not expert enough to delve behind the online goings on but can be quite amusing to see who pops up. I am good at using the block feature though!
Thanks for enlightenment on Spam etc, keep us updated please.