Am I an ideavirus?
Or am I just Twitterspam?
My Lens-of-the-Day lens about handling computer accounts after death is getting tweeted all over the place. Strange thing is, all of the folks who are tweeting it are posting identical messages: same wording, same spelling, everything. And none of them are acknowledging their posts to be a retweet of anyone else. AND when I look at each person’s Twitter page, the posts they all have right below the one about me are also the same. More than a dozen people all tweeting the exact same stuff.
I don’t know a whole lot about the Twitter world, but it would appear that a lot of folks are all getting spoon-fed tweets about interesting topics that they can post to their followers. I wonder who the original source is and whether they’re actually doing that as a business. It seems similar to the junk mail that my father (he’s a pastor) used to get from companies that were in the business of selling stacks of pre-written sermons.
But whatever the cause, I am getting a surge in traffic, so that must mean that the followers who are reading these pre-packaged tweets are interested enough to click on the link.
