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When You Look Into A Can Of Spam, The Can Of Spam Looks Back Into You

Here’s an idea: spam your friends.

Companies are increasingly recruiting regular people to become advocates for their products & services– without requiring those people to disclose their commercial connection to these companies.

The concept is simple: you sign up for one of these services, and grant advertisers permission to send out tweets or posts on [...]

Hashtag Spam and HabitatUK: How Not to Use Twitter

An interesting analysis of how not to use Twitter to promote your brand. HabitatUK, and upscale furniture retailer, launched its Twitter profile and immediately began inserting misleading hashtags into its tweets, such as:

#iPhone
#MMS
#TRUE_BLOOD

and even:

#MOUSAVI

in an apparent bid to capitalize on the Iranian election fiasco. People protested against this enormous breach of Twitter protocol, and, to [...]