Twits on Twitter 0
Salespersons knocking at your door:
Already Home Depot Inc. has wished her luck painting her room, a medical company recommended its device for her ear infection, and a DJ told her to check out his single.
“I don’t want random people contacting me,” said Gard, 21, who lives in Clearwater, Florida. “Don’t try to sell yourself through my Twitter.”
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“It is starting to get out of control,” said Christopher Peri, founder of TwittFilter, a Web site that lets users restrict who can follow updates they post to Twitter. “The original value of Twitter is friends talking to friends. When someone says, ‘I’m going to pimp this product,’ it’s no longer a social media.”
The story goes on the discuss Twitter’s efforts to combat twit spam.
Criswell predicts that, if Twitter does not manage to control this, the whole damn thing will just collapse under the weight of marketing, which my old friend once defined as
what companies do when they can’t actually sell anything.
