I need a brush up on some .net coding against web services and decided to play around with Twitter a little bit.
I decided to take a somewhat nefarious route and game Twitter a little bit. I sat at my computer last night for a few hours, by this morning I had the Follower Farmer (no I won’t release it, that’s not the point.)
What does it do you ask? Well it pings the public time-line, it get’s the latest 20 screen names, it follows all of them under my account, and then it waits two whole minutes and then un-follows them. Amazingly enough upwards of 20% of the random strangers follow me back!
I don’t know them, they don’t know me. They have no interest in my content and have really no clue what I write about. Regardless I picked up over 100 followers in a few hours.
It’s this little experiment that makes me wonder if there is any hope for Twitter after it attempts to monetize itself.
I know I won’t pay anything to use it. Many of my friends and colleagues agree. Have you ever followed someone who randomly invited you? Someone you knew nothing about? Interesting….
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