knofun

So yeah I have been on twitter since march 2008 (yeah I know that’s why the post is entitled ‘Yeah I know I lag’) and the service, or rather the people using the service, has changed radically. It used to be just my seo/geeky friends that were on twitter, and my big time hollywood friends just made fun of it. Now (post Oprah twitter show) they are on it, which is a massive glut of technically inexperienced people opening a method to put a message in front of them with little to no spam filtering. This has resulted in massive twitter spam, most of it affiliate marketing and most of it dating / adult.

It’s easy to see, just click on the link that shows you who’s following you. If you are active on twitter at all, you have a bunch of cute girls who want to show you their sexy pics. (If you are not an internet marketer, let me explain these are fake computer generated accounts from an array of cute profile pictures, an array of names, and an array of sample tweets. They do not want to show you their sexy pics until you show them your sexy credit card)

So this creates the obvious opportunity of jumping in the spam stream and making some quick money before twitter gets better at stopping this behavior. Kinda greasy, but who am I to judge. It also makes your follower count totally irrelevant (sorry ashton).

I think what would be valuable and viral is a site that calculated twitter weight by creating an algorithm that takes into account not only the # of followers you have, but how long they have been on twitter, how many followers they have, etc. So someone with 100 followers including @iamdiddy could potentially be ranked higher than someone with 1,000 no name spam followers. I would do this but there is just not enough reward to tip the scales.. I think wefollow.com probably the best candidate but anyone with some spare time, php knowledge and server space could do this in a few days.

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