Bogus Posts Starting to Show Up in Social Marketing Channels (New Twitter Spam)

I was looking into some phenomenal twitter activity related to one of my posts, when I noticed the high volume of tweets wasn’t really correlating with a huge jump in traffic to the page. I used Topsy.com to look at some of the tweeters and found groupings of bogus tweeters broadcasting the same tweet over and over. They all look fairly legitimate until you dig into their bios. I called it a Twitter Marketing Scam, maybe it’s just spam. Pretty sophisticated network of tweetbots.

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I assume this scam is to build a large network of Twitter accounts within "business" networks and hashtags and then sell performance-based social media services and show fantastic growth and mentions by using these accounts to run up the numbers. Pretty slick. Pretty crappy.

Twitter Turkey’s moving into social business space. If I could just figure out how to activate them again, I could get this post to go viral! (grin)

@jmacofearth (also seen on Google+: jmacofearth)

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