What is Twitter Spam

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Spam: You may not use the Twitter service for the purpose of spamming anyone. What constitutes “spamming” will evolve as we respond to new tricks and tactics by spammers. Some of the factors that we take into account when determining what conduct is considered to be spamming are:
  • If you have followed a large amount of users in a short amount of time;
  • If you have followed and unfollowed people in a short time period, particularly by automated means (aggressive follower churn);
  • If you repeatedly follow and unfollow people, whether to build followers or to garner more attention for your profile;
  • If you have a small number of followers compared to the amount of people you are following;
  • If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates;
  • If you post misleading links;
  • If a large number of people are blocking you;
  • The number of spam complaints that have been filed against you;
  • If you post duplicate content over multiple accounts or multiple duplicate updates on one account;
  • If you post multiple unrelated updates to a topic using #;
  • If you post multiple unrelated updates to a trending or popular topic;
  • If you send large numbers of duplicate @replies or mentions;
  • If you send large numbers of unsolicited @replies or mentions in an attempt to spam a service or link;
  • If you add a large number of unrelated users to lists in an attempt to spam a service or link;
  • If you repeatedly post other users' Tweets as your own;
  • If you have attempted to "sell" followers, particularly through tactics considered aggressive following or follower churn;
  • Creating or purchasing accounts in order to gain followers;
  • Using or promoting third-party sites that claim to get you more followers (such as follower trains, sites promising "more followers fast," or any other site that offers to automatically add followers to your account);
  • If you create false or misleading Points of Interest;
  • If you create Points of Interest to namesquat or spam.

 

Quirky - Socially Developed Products

A Socially Developed Product™

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Inventors pay $99 to submit their idea to the this co-creation platform.  Then the community of designers with co-design and improve the product.  Then Quirky helps the inventor sell the product and if enough people buy it - then it will go into production.  Revenues from the "e-shop" are shared with the community of influencers.

Pay with a Tweet - A social payment system

Sell your products for a tweet.

In today's world the value of people talking about your product is sometimes higher than the money you would get for it. ‘Pay with a Tweet’ is the first social payment system, where people pay with the value of their social network.

It’s simple, every time somebody pays with a tweet, he or she tells all their friends about the product. Boom.


Click here to create your download button.

I really like this business model.   It seems really obvious too.   Content producers or coupon creators could promote their other products and business by charging people with a tweet.  You can create a "sell" button that will allow tweeters to download content - but I would like to see this model extended to other things.