People have started playing twitter
The power behind twitter is reputation.
If you already have a big reputation in your niche, then getting a ton of people to follow you on twitter is not hard work at all..
And we know that the most responsive part of your audience is your followers.
Imagine having a 10,000 followers. That means
- Your tweets go directly on the twitter home pages of 10,000 people
- The mobile phone updates.
- The potential to directly nudge them
Whatever happens, a large proportion of your followers will know you have something to say
But what if you don't have a big online reputation
Well this is where the scam comes in.
Remember your profile name is the user name you register with
Well someone started following me on twitter using the mane of a big name Internet marketer but including an extra L in the name. And he even has his picture as his profile picture
Easy to overlook.
Why did I pick up on this. The big name marketer is already following me on Twitter.
Hmmm.
Now you could argue that
- The big name marketer has a look alike, who has almost the same name, and is in the same niche. Stranger things have happened. Or have they?
- Or perhaps the big name marketer has maxed out his twitter account and is building another one. I suppose that's possible apart from the fact that he has been tweeting lately about scams and people leveraging on his name
- Or perhaps this is just the beginning of scammers moving in on the twitter platform
You decide
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8 comments:
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This is kind of what happened to Shaquille O'Neal. Somebody was tweeting under his name and photo and Shaq opened an account on Twitter to combat this.
How on earth will Twitter police this kind of "identity theft"? Will they require people to submit a social security number and driver's license before opening a Twitter account? What a drag.
No surprise as Twitter has emerged strongly as one of the most-discussed social network tool around. Imagine having email spams/scams, but now only happening in a different place. Identity-theft is definitely an issue, security wise.. a protocol? well, who knows?
I am going to be trying twitter out next week. I have not been familiar with this medium. can anyone give me some advise about this, My business now is focused on setting up someone with their own niche, and giving them customer service to make sure they are successful.
please check out my blog and let me know if anyone can give me some advise.
Daniel Adams
Daniel, I have taken a look at your blog and it's a good start
With regards to twitter and setting up a twitter profile for your business, it's a big subject and covered in some detail at Twitter quickie
Hope it helps
I have a bigger problem others may have it too). I don't even have a twitter account. And, as I posted annonymous comment on a blog a twitter account showed up next to my chosen name. This account was preceded by "follow me on twitter." Well, that account is linked to a website with a bio on it that is completely different from how I described myself in the comment. Even, though, I was anonymous..I feel sorry for the website owner (if they're not a part of any scam) because whoever owns that website looks like a fake after my post. How is this possible?
Interesting comment Anonymous
I looked into it and there are two different accounts
The annonymous twitter account appears to be a legitimate twitter account with links to his website and 42 updtaes. He has managed to get 35 followers and has a name attached to his account
What smells fishy is the other twitter account anonymous [has a single n]
No tweets, not following anyone and has 97 followers. That's the one that raises my eyebrows. How does one get 97 followers while apparently doing nothing!!!
But if you look most of his followers are from china and places like that
Should you concern yourself with this. I think not
I would never use these people again. After buying 1K followers, it took them four days just to get the campaign up and running - quite contrary to their 24 hour guarantee. During my email correspondence with them they said they will deliver 500-1,000 followers weekly - this did not happen. They were delivering around 3-4 followers per day at best and they did not keep to the specifications of the followers I wanted to target, despite clear instructions to that effect before payment. Well, I requested a refund under their 30 day money back guarantee - and to this day, I have not heard from them. A complete scam, please avoid like the plague.
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