Twitter Users Will Eventually Privatize
Posted by danielthepoet | Filed under twitter
It’s a given. Twitter users will eventually privatize. As with any popularized social media site/venue, popularity breeds marketing and marketing breeds spam. It’s unavoidable. There are already hundreds or thousands of Twitter bots friending anyone and everyone they can find in order to market their stupid products or post links to their latest blog posts.
Those of us who actually use Twitter to communicate will no doubt be forced to make a decision: privatize our profiles or move on to the next Twitter wannabe. Privatization doesn’t solve all problems, however.
What happens when twitter spammers get smart?
Most of us are using Adobe AIR apps that search out any mention of @myusername and posts them in the viewer as a relevant conversation. This means that anyone who wants to solicit us can just write messages to us without ever being followed or allowed into our private network.
Of course, the apps can be updated to include some sort of editing/discretionary function. Once that is applied, the problem is solved. But until then, I’m picturing the first wave of marketers and spam terrorists who figure this out. They’ll just create their profiles and start posting comments to everyone, flooding our boxes with useless conversations and causing Twitter apps to time out.
We need a solution BEFORE this becomes a problem.
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