Comments on: Would You Tweet Spam Friends To Pay The Rent? (Be-A-Magpie)

By: Cory O'Brien

Cory O'Brien — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:29:15 +0000

I’m definitely not a fan of Magpie, and think that the analogy to PayPerPost is rather appropriate. Rather than allowing conversation to continue as normal with advertising in the background as has become the norm in the blogging world, Magpie tries to sneak some of the advertising message into the conversation through a back door and forces the user to manually filter out ads (which will become next to impossible as Magpie switches over to a user selected disclaimer model) that they don’t want to see.

It’s spam and it has the potential to devalue Twitter as a conversational medium if we continue to let services like this into the stream, so we need to stand together as a Twitter community and dictate when and how we’re willing to be advertised to instead of passively sitting by and waiting to see what happens.

(For more of my anti-Magpie rant, see: http://thefutureofads.com/2008/11/03/magpie-tries-to-make-twitter-an-ad-network-fails/)

By: Kyle Reddoch

Kyle Reddoch — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:59:42 +0000

I hope that the magpie spam is put to stop! Twitter is a community where people network. We BUILD our follow and take them very serious, or at least I do, and having a spammer out there ruining the community dampers the whole situation.

It MUST be put to bed!!

By: Lin Burress @ Telling It Like It Is

Lin Burress @ Telling It Like It Is — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:33:59 +0000

Hi Darnell,

I do hope Twitter will take action and put a stop to Magpie spam on Twitter. Anyone on Twitter has at some point dealt with new “followers” who turn out to be spammers, which tends to get the spammers blocked completely.

Twitter is a community. A people community, wherein we can build personal relationships with those we follow and who follow us. Twitter should never become a haven for spam, nor should Magpie be allowed on a site intended to bring people together.