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):
...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.
