On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM, jstrellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To me, this sounds like MLM, based off of twitter, just slightly > modified. If you want to go this route, why not just say, "if you > follow me, I'll follow you and we'll both get higher numbers. Maybe > you'll like what I have to say too."
How do you do this without spamming a huge number of people? Why do you think many people would look at your twitter page to read such a message? Amir > > Honestly though, this completely misses the whole point of Twitter. > > On Dec 8, 7:51 pm, "Amir Michail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to >> > fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but >> > stubborn persistence regardless. >> >> > And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some >> > renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys >> > who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just >> > to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most >> > people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw >> > through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the >> > 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? >> >> > The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I >> > mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets >> > because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more >> > followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting >> > for them? (because of the quality of feed). >> >> Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 >> startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter >> followers to better their chances of startup success. >> >> They could go to this service to increase their followers. >> >> So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they >> don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, >> they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. >> >> And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their >> intent to follow more people. >> >> Amir >> >> >> >> >> >> > Not cutting, just trying to understand. >> >> > Waitman >> >> > On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, "Amir Michail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > ... >> >> >> > Anyways, back to the original topic. >> >> >> > I don't understand WHERE these "Them" are going to submit. (re: >> >> > original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. >> >> >> > Waitman >> >> >> At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of building. I >> >> didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. Maybe >> >> I shouldn't even try... >> >> >> Amir >> >> >> > On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few posts, >> >> >> are >> >> >> automatically put in the moderation queue. >> >> >> spam, which I'm sure >> >> >> --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://t... >> >> --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail > > > -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail
