{"id":3046,"date":"2010-04-07T11:25:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T11:11:50","slug":"when-is-spam-not-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"When is spam not spam?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have just received a retweeted tweet (if you see what I mean) on my Twitter account. The retweeted tweet says:<\/p>\n

bryonythomas: I’m showing someone #howtwitterworks, could you please RT to help me demonstrate?<\/p>\n

I thought, that’s interesting. Let’s have a look at the profile of @bryonythomas<\/p>\n

Instantly, two things are noticeable.<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> six minutes ago @bryonythomas tweeted ‘@Godzilla this looks like spam to me.. who are you?’<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> three hours ago @bryonythomas tweeted ‘Off to get a new marketing exec set up on Twitter, Facebook & WordPress this morning’<\/p>\n

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?’<\/p>\n

And my response to #1. contains the words ‘Hoist’ and ‘Petard’.<\/p>\n

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.’<\/p>\n

Actually Bryony, based on your first tweet, there’s no evidence whatsoever of clear thinking going on in your locale.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

‘@nameofspammer What the fuck are you following me for, you cunt’<\/p>\n

And then I block them and report them for generating spam.<\/p>\n

So go ahead punk. Make my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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