Marketing or spam? - Need you ask?

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Yep you guessed it, another wonderful web idea tainted by evil spammers...

By Oxygen 3 [Marketing or spam?- 06/07/2008]

Twitter has become one of the most widely used 'microblogging' and communication tools with thousands of users around the world. Consequently, many companies have turned their eyes to this service. Some use it honestly, while others, however, are using techniques reminiscent of spam.

This tool works in the following way: when a user creates an account, they can sign up to others' so that they can get their comments and updates. Similarly, other users can sign up to their account. When this happens, the user receives a message at their usual email address informing them that they have a new 'follower' together with a link to see the profile of the person who has decided to follow their updates.

"Usually, when you get an email like this, you want to know more about the person who has decided to follow your account, as you could be interested in following theirs as well", explains Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs." Actually, this exchange of messages and this way of meeting people are the essence of this tool".

More information - http://www.pandasecurity.com/emailhtml/ ... ENG_in.htm