This isn't really anything new. Countless people and companies do follows, favorites, etc. just to send that notification and get some eyeballs. Props to him for automating it and monetizing it, though.
Twitter Should Shut Me Down
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#152Having signed up myself out of curiosity, I can't actually find any method of paying for the service, which I find strange as you mention you're making a lot of money from this venture. For me, it just sounds like this project is merely a throwaway project and the aim is to get banned, at least then to get onto the Ads API where they may have another concept, but couldn't get on it any other way. Might be me, might j…
The whole story smacks of a PR stunt to me.
My guess is he's really looking for a job. Or testing the hack-ability of ycombinator (and non-researched news aggregators in general).
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#153I'm (somewhat) surprised by the lashing out and negativity towards the service in many of the comments. Any product or service can be used for evil by evil people. I've used Myles' service. It works amazingly well. So well, in fact, we looked at using his API to integrate the functionality into Socialyzer. We ended up not coming to terms and we built some scripts to do this for ourselves internally. We use this funct…
So you spam favorite twitter too? You know you are breaking twitters tos just like the op and degrading the value of twitter the same way an email spammer degrades email?
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#154I don't like this trend with services being shut down by the big guys in the industry. You see what happened with AppGratis, and now this. I understand the whole TOS violation thing, but when a big company can shut down a successful startup just because they don't like what they're doing, it doesn't jive with that whole capitalism thing. Is there anything we can do about this, or is it just a product of building on s…
Power existing where capital pools is exactly what capitalism is. What did you expect?
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#155This business model isn't analogous to "promoted tweets" or "Twitter ads". It's analogous to "email spam". You're a spammer essentially. Using an automated bot to fake a human interaction (favorite) in order to get my attention and get me to follow you. It doesn't matter that it's more effective than "Twitter Ads". Twitter Ads are marked as Ads, your favorites are not. I really do hope Twitter shuts you down, as well…
Twitter actually has an entire team dedicated to killing spam.
Their actually doing a pretty good job for the amount of spam they actually have to deal with. Once they figure out that people have started to use favorites to spam, they'll start killing those kind of spammers too.
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#156This is part of the reason I stopped using twitter and haven't looked back. It detracts from the overall UX.
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#157It's amazing how much devs want to build on top of Twitter. There's got to be an opportunity for Twitter to monetize that instead of fighting it and pissing everyone off. Why can't they just have some reasonable fees for API access?
If they put a paywall on their IP, then they'd be bound to have a reasonable support structure in place. No one in their right mind would want to support the Twitter or Facebook API's...
Nonsense. They wouldn't be bound to anything.
There are people making millions using these APIs now with no support. Why would charging them $25/month suddenly require support?
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#158I'm not quite sure I understand the point of this post. If you see spamming as an amoral activity, either shut it down yourself, or continue knowing that you are profiting from amoral activity.
If you don't, then please continue spamming. I think that would make you a pretty big a-hole, but it's your life. shrugs
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#159This business model isn't analogous to "promoted tweets" or "Twitter ads". It's analogous to "email spam". You're a spammer essentially. Using an automated bot to fake a human interaction (favorite) in order to get my attention and get me to follow you. It doesn't matter that it's more effective than "Twitter Ads". Twitter Ads are marked as Ads, your favorites are not. I really do hope Twitter shuts you down, as well…
This is detestable. I hope everyone can translate this blog post accordingly. If not, here it is:
"I publicly acknowledge I'm wrong. I'm letting Twitter know they should shut me down, but I'm just going to keep riding while the money is hot. Everyone will think I'm a great guy because of this post and my reputation will be salvaged after I'm shut down."
Spammers are the lowest. If the OP has any shred of dignity left he would shut down before Twitter can do that for him.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, the "if the victim is that dumb, they deserve it" school of thought. No, the "take responsibility for the outcome of your own actions" school of thought. Or do you think one should be able to wander through life, doing and saying anything one pleases, completely oblivious to your environment, and not expect bad things to happen sometimes?
If the only thing you could imagine someone meaning is something obviously idiotic, you probably aren't imagining hard enough.
I could imagine a lot of things. I'm just trying to point out that you can't just absolve individuals from being responsible for the outcomes of their decisions. And that's not the same thing as saying "The victim was dumb, they got what they had coming to them".