The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
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Re: The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
#2I was at this talk. Patrick's talk was very insightful, especially this section.
It is such a simple hack, but very well executed and though through. No wonder he did so well !
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#3Annoyingly misleading link bait title.
The mail was sent to "journalists", not users.
It is nothing new, just the usual social engineering basics that have been covered a gazillion times like sugar coating the recipient's ego, mentioning pseudo-personal things about yourself, etc.
Annoyance warning about visiting that site, it loads and loads and loads some images to no end. Every second or so the mouse pointer changes to loading.
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#4I thought this was very interesting. I found the point on pitching one feature at a time to be particularly worthwhile.
Thanks for posting.
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#5Proof read before you send something like that out:
"Particularly because I think a two articles you wrote a few years ago did an amazing job summarizing the industry"
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#6How does the killer feature actually work? I know you can lookup the internet service provider's hostname from the user's IP address, but then how do you reliably go from that to a clean "Ogilvy & Mather" string?
Re: The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
#7Annoyingly misleading link bait title. The mail was sent to "journalists", not users. It is nothing new, just the usual social engineering basics that have been covered a gazillion times like sugar coating the recipient's ego, mentioning pseudo-personal things about yourself, etc. Annoyance warning about visiting that site, it loads and loads and loads some images to no end. Every second or so the mouse pointer chang…
I was very glad to see it was an article about spamming journalists rather than the general public.
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#8at that rate, (1000 users per hour) it would take 114 years to get to one billion users.
Re: The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
#9How does the killer feature actually work? I know you can lookup the internet service provider's hostname from the user's IP address, but then how do you reliably go from that to a clean "Ogilvy & Mather" string?
Using data from ARIN.
Re: The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
#10at that rate, (1000 users per hour) it would take 114 years to get to one billion users.
That's a lot faster than 'never'