It's Steve (now in blog form)

This morning I posted something silly on Please Wash Hands about exploding poop.  Within a couple of minutes we were getting followed by PoopPal on Twitter.  That’s the danger of automated search and follow.  Sure I mentioned poop repeatedly, but I wasn’t looking for assistance.  Failure to consider sentiment makes this type of behavior annoying rather than effective.

It’s interesting that the abuse is starting to kick in on Twitter.  Quantcast has them at 6 million monthly uniques.  That seems to be the inflection point for abuse on social sites.  I hope they can sort it out before things get really out of hand.

Update: PoopPal is less automated than I thought.  His response to my post:

@stevepearman I agree there is a lot of questionable practices going around, but I am not interested in your money, just your poop

Well said, sir.  I stand corrected.

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