Parental advisory: very strong adult language is contained in this post; very strong. You have been warned. Really. I’m not joking. This is bad.
I have just received a retweeted tweet (if you see what I mean) on my Twitter account. The retweeted tweet says:
bryonythomas: I’m showing someone #howtwitterworks, could you please RT to help me demonstrate?
I thought, that’s interesting. Let’s have a look at the profile of @bryonythomas
Instantly, two things are noticeable.
1. six minutes ago @bryonythomas tweeted ‘@Godzilla this looks like spam to me.. who are you?’
2. three hours ago @bryonythomas tweeted ‘Off to get a new marketing exec set up on Twitter, Facebook & WordPress this morning’
Well obviously, my response to #2. is ‘So you’re doing this so that the new marketing exec can use his/her Twitter, Facebook and WordPress to spam everyone with?’
And my response to #1. contains the words ‘Hoist’ and ‘Petard’.
I dig a little deeper and the profile of @bryonythomas says, unbelievably, ‘Marketing Clear Thinker: When you can’t out-spend the competition, you have to out-think them.’
Actually Bryony, based on your first tweet, there’s no evidence whatsoever of clear thinking going on in your locale.
So for the benefit of @bryonythomas and every other spammer or marketeer who uses social media to generate junk mail, here’s what I do when people – who are obviously spamming marketeers or spamming salespeople (because there clearly is no difference in the non-sales, non-marketing world) attach themselves to me.
Even though they may not have yet tweeted me, by following me they are potentially building a database of people I communicate with, so I send them an ‘@’ reply tweet along the lines of:
‘@nameofspammer What the fuck are you following me for, you cunt’
And then I block them and report them for generating spam.
So go ahead punk. Make my day.
Cool. That is a great way of dealing with spammers. I might try it myself!
Just why do they even HAVE re-twitting? What is the purpose? What a waste of Internet space.
What’s a retweet? I’m not on twitter so I don’t understand all this stuff, although I do like your spammer message, it’s clear, concise and to the point.
Vi, a retweet is when you take a comment from someone you follow and put it in your own comment stream so that the people who follow you can read the wisdom of the original tweeter. It’s just a way of getting a wider audience for something. There’s a fair bit of retweeting going on at the moment about the DEBill farce and how different people are humiliating their MPs over their performance.