Comments on: Mashable and Moonfruit – Championing Spam Since 2009

By: Random Ranger

Random Ranger — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:18:03 +0000

This is only the start. For now it’s useful/fun. Tomorrow this will be deemed spam. Brands will start to flood this space. Unless targeted and relevant I expect this kind of thing to die a very quick death.

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:00:01 +0000

Hi Mark

Thanks for the comment. Not being a “cry baby”, just a shame that another great service is in trouble of becoming ruined thanks to marketers executing bad ideas.

Or as Read Write Web put it in a much better way than I can:

“What’s frightening about this “it’s not spam, it’s a message from your friend” is that it’s really not. My friend isn’t actually telling me that Moonfruit is this great new company they have just heard about and that I really have to check out. This isn’t a word-of-mouth recommendation – my friend just wants to win a new laptop. They know this, I know this, and the company knows this. And that makes the message just as spammy to me as any other in-stream tweet from an actual spammer.”

http://bit.ly/ZF5zd

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:42:20 +0000

Spamming is, when I hit 100,000 forums with cialis links. Spamming is when I hack your WP accounts and insert thousands of hidden links on your blog. Spamming is when I hijack your browser to post comments around the web.

Complaining about what people post on Twitter, that you followed – is not spamming. It’s being a cry baby.

By: Kev

Kev — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:11:40 +0000

NoWrap – thanks for the comment. I do agree the internet isn’t here to cater for me, and the great thing about the net, and Twitter especially is that you create your own experience through using it.

With Twitter, I find people who I share some common interests with, and look forward to reading their Tweets. But when they start spamming advertisements for a company, it’s akin to getting a chain letter or sales pitch in my mailbox. And so I unfollow.

You can pick who to follow, but you can’t predict who is going to spam you!

By: Nadine

Nadine — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:27:09 +0000

I think its great they managed to get people talking. They even had their managing director and marketing director on hand to give quotes to the media. They’ve managed to reach people who once had no idea who or what “Moonfruit” was!

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By: ad trade

ad trade — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:25:26 +0000

nice twitter tip :)

By: nowrap

nowrap — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:54:31 +0000

There’s one reason these tweets should not be considered spam. By clicking “Follow” you have opted-in to a user’s everything – their thoughts, their profanities, their brilliance, even their ignorance. So why are you so opposed to getting what you asked for? If you don’t like it then by all means opt out.

Believe it or not the Internet and all those who use it are not here to cater to you.

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