Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
Lately I have seen an increasing number of friends being added to my Twitter account. While the first one was suspiscious, with no information on the person, MLM in the username and only one post to an MLM website, the ones after that were almost identical.
It quickly became obvious that the accounts were automated, so I went looking for the latest program. Sure enough, there it was, splattered all over the Google results when I searched for “automated Twitter adder”.
Twitter support wasted no time shutting those accounts down, which is a good sign that they are on top of these things. Either that or someone reported it quickly. What interests be though is the reason for using a program to get friends. None of the accounts had more than 3 followers, yet each had close to 20. That is apparently the maximum number of followers the software will find for you. That makes it not only strange, but also useless.
Maybe the 20 is the most at a time and the process has to be repeated. Either way, if you become their friend, the only thing you will get is a bumch of marketing ads for programs that few people know about, or even care about anyway.
Instead of following them back when you get suspiscous notices, first look to see what their profile is about, the username they created, how many followers and friends they have. All of these together are signs that a program is adding you for ill intentions.
Twitter is a good tool for social networking when used with courtesy and you hand-pick your friends.
