Comments on: Twitter and Twitocracy: the Case of Moonfruit

By: Do You Ride the Wave of Twitter Trending? : Performancing

Do You Ride the Wave of Twitter Trending? : Performancing — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:04:48 +0000

[...] This could be one way the system can be gamed. It’s akin to keyword stuffing, which was one of the ways website owners optimized their sites for search engines. This practice is now frowned upon, of course, and could cause penalties from the search engines. But with Twitter, weeding out unwanted tweets from trending counts might be difficult, if not impossible. Granted, Twitter can exclude certain hashtags from their trending topics list, particularly if these violate terms of service, or if these constitute content not applicable for general consumption. They have done this before. [...]

By: rob,BtG

rob,BtG — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:32:29 +0000

a greater problem than #moonfruit and similar promos is the huge amount of porn spam accounts flourishing. though Twitter tries, they don’t seem to be able to keep up. it’s gotten to be a serious problem in be able to keep up with new followers.

i can handle seeing some creative moonfruit tweets from real people.

By: Steven Hart

Steven Hart — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:04:54 +0000

Twitter needs to filter spam, this is what that was, even though it might have been good fun. But twitter should let people know that the trending topics are moderated and they are not necessary the real top trends.

By: find someones cell phone number

find someones cell phone number — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:49:39 +0000

Yes, twitter needs to moderate the tweets. It’s badly being used by marketers and spammers (oh, may be there’s no difference between marketers and spammers now?). I stop following whoever tweets a lot daily, which of course contain advertisements…

By: Karl Foxley

Karl Foxley — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:27:05 +0000

This is an interesting article. Don’t the users of Twitter form their own censorship by choosing not to post tweets with particular hastags, by not retweeting things that they disagree with and by unfollowing whom ever they feel is spammy, etc?

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:48:46 +0000

This is an interesting post. When does an approach on any social media cross the line? Who sets the rules and how are they enforced? Does a campaign to celebrate something by giving away prizes cause harm to a site like twitter? Does moving up in the trending topics list by offering people prizes for mentioning the keyword cause harm to twitter and other social media sites? Since twitter owns the site why can’t they decide what crosses the line on their site? In fact, does twitter really own the site or do the people who tweet? If people disagree with twitter’s rules and the tweeters then stop using twitter, who is the real owner? I do not know the answers to these questions. Maybe these should be blog topics.

Thanks for this post. It may be a spark that sets off a big social media fire.

By: Scott Pruitt of Texas Divorce Online

Scott Pruitt of Texas Divorce Online — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:25:04 +0000

One thing I love about twitter is that they don’t moderate your post its somehow gives us marketers some sort of freedom, but we know that its not forever.

By: Stancje

Stancje — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:43:14 +0000

I like all those twitter giveaways recently. Doesn’t take any skill or effort and you can win great prices! Sure I haven’t had any luck as of yet but why should I stop trying?

By: Ocean Feather Internet Marketing

Ocean Feather Internet Marketing — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:05:09 +0000

Twitter is very popular among internet marketers. Twitocracy will work till it pays. The problem with twitter is nobody moderates the posts. They are just posted and people keep reading/following.

By: CouldBFree

CouldBFree — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:10:39 +0000

As with any site that continues to grow such as Twitter. As conditions arise, terms shall be altered. I do agree that there should be an algorithm set up to filter out such sites. There are people of all ages here and lines should be drawn and clearly outlined.

CouldB

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:32:33 +0000

Interesting take on moonfruits spamming. I can see why Twitter would censor the trending topics list, and not just from adult material. Twittering is supposed to be fun, and moonfruits spamming doesnt fit in!

Although I may just be bitter that I was not quick enough with # moonfruit!
Great post!

By: Twitter and the Numbers Game | Devlounge

Twitter and the Numbers Game | Devlounge — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:55:33 +0000

[...] What’s wrong with this concept of “Twitocracy,” then? Maybe it’s the fact that any numbers system can be gamed. Think of Digg. Think of Google. In the olden days, people used to be able to easily game these two, and other similar services. For instance, Digg is quick to update and refine its algorithm for pushing articles up to front page. But in its early stages, just a hundred or so votes within a given period of time will be enough to frontpage an article. The administrators probably thought marketers would easily take advantage of these to drive traffic to their sites. [...]

By: Brenon MacLaury

Brenon MacLaury — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:13:57 +0000

This is really interesting. It seems like such a silly thing for Twitter to get all worked up over. Maybe Twitter needs to have some sort of contest application where site owners could submit to run a contest like this..although if that were the case I’m sure it wouldn’t be free. Interesting post, thanks!

Brenon MacLaury

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:41:03 +0000

Let’s not forget #squarespace – 30 Iphones in 30 days… not trending at all.

I’m curious about the “democratic” movement on Twitter… well, really interested in how Twitter responds!

Great post, thanks!

By: Chester

Chester — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:12:19 +0000

Wow this is totally cool! I’d love a MacBook Pro and should be including moonfruit on my hashtag asap!