Monday, August 24, 2015

Updated--Eeeek! Twitter Says We're Spam!

Update below.
Original post: 

My Hawaiian friends would say 'Yummy, yummy spam'* but still...

And after we had just highlighted the force for good that Twitter can be (Former PM Gordon Brown's Advisor On Weathering A Market Crash).

From FT Alphaville:

So this is how internet liberty dies? With thunderous spam filters
Twitter has a problem.
Having tried for years to shape the Twittersphere in the image of a “public sphere”, the company has walked straight into the tragedy of the commons trap.

That tragedy looks like this (read the warning at the top):
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/files/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-24-at-10.52.56.png

...MUCH MORE

Granted, I can type pretty fast but automated?
You flatter me Twitter, you flatter me.

*See, for example "http://www.spam.com/spam-101/why-spam-products-popular-in-hawaii"

I wonder what Twitter's filters would make of that spam-de-spam-spam URL?

UPDATE after about 4 seconds reflection:
It's probably Izabella's typing that appears to the bots to be automated.