Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-27 Thread Dale Folla MeDia
the only possible reasons someone would have to create that many accounts would be to spam in one form or another. There should be other ways to skin that cat.. You could not keep up with that many accounts unless you sent out huge amounts of useless RSS feeeds just to gain followers so you can m

Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Jonathan Markwell
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: > I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come > to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. Thank you I'll do that. Any links you know off the top of your head? > That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving any

Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Jonathan Markwell
of their high profile clients and expect many of the real people to be new to Twitter. >> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:03:17 -0700 >> From: john.l.me...@gmail.com >> To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation >> >>

Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Jonathan Markwell
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:03 PM, John Meyer wrote: > Sounds like a swit (spam twitterer) to me.  Have you told them about > twitter's blacklisting policy? That was my initial reaction. :) > On 1/7/2010 5:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Would be interested to hear both the comm

Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Badera
I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving anyone this sort of tool. Not that certain other people on this list haven't already done so for profit, sadly. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 5

RE: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Ken Dobruskin
I can't wait to hear how they plan to interest real people to follow these accounts. More keyword- (or geo-) based @ "replies"? save us! > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:03:17 -0700 > From: john.l.me...@gmail.com > To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com > Subj

Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread John Meyer
Sounds like a swit (spam twitterer) to me. Have you told them about twitter's blacklisting policy? On 1/7/2010 5:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell wrote: Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thou

[twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Jonathan Markwell
Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They already have a quote from an outsourcing company that