Dubious Twitter users – will they ever learn?

It frequently comes to my attention that the learning curve of a particular demographic is somewhat short. This is not to say that I encourage this particular group of individuals to smarten up and change their tactics as that would not necessarily be a good thing, but it begs the question: how do they survive day-to-day life when they cannot grasp even the simplest case of ’cause and effect’?.

The particular demographic in question are usually women of a certain disposition who will, for a specified amount of money and in front of a web camera, do pretty much whatever you ask.  They generally operate through a website that has a great many people offering the very same ‘service’ and presumeably have to pay a commission fee type system in order to use the site. The thing that they don’t seem to be able to grasp is that while they are always trying to ‘advertise’ themselves, they are not very subtle in their method.

Creating a user account in Twitter using a random bunch of letters and numbers, then following as many people as you can and as fast as you can could be left to interpretation, but as soon as the crudely re-directed link is posted as the first ‘tweet’ the game is up!  it’s all over and Twitter simply delete the account on the basis that the content of the target site in the link posted, is not allowed under the terms and conditions of use.

Twitter however, do seem to be learning from their experiences because as a result of increased phising attempts through posted links, they are about to start re-routing all links posted through their system which will allow them to filter out all the undesireable links at source – which as a net result will also  include the ones for these ‘web camera’ sites.

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