clipped from: myweb20list.com Forecast says:
More Social Spam is on it’s way.
DoshDosh quoted statistics on “Following Others As A Strategy To Gain Followers”:
Take for instance, Osen Komura. A fake profile set up by another Twitter user in February 2008 as a social experiment. The Osen account followed 41,798 Twitter users in one month and 7,847 users added him as a friend, a 17%+ follow-back rate…
Apart from the risk of being labeled a Twitter spammer and increasing the noise on your Twitter stream, this method still works.
In the future, the Social Media sites will become better at filtering spammers, HOWEVER, the appeal of a 17% response rate in building a permission based list is fantastic - and this will ensure that, in the short term, we can all expect to see a lot more Social Spam coming our way.
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