"Emma wants to keep up with you on Twitter"

[unixronin]

"Join Twitter now for free!  [...] This message was sent by a Twitter user who entered your email address."

Yeah, right.  Who the *%&$%@#@!(&( is Emma? I don't know anyone named Emma.  To the best of my knowledge, nobody named Emma has my email address that didn't harvest it off a mailing list somewhere or other or out of somebody's address book.  And whoever this fictional Emma is, "she" entered the same email address twice.

So now Twitter have become spammers...  great business model, guys.  Let me know how that works out for you.

Comments

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

A spammer could, in theory, start using twitter as their delivery mechanism (since, as far as I know, there aren't any anti-spam mechanisms in twitter, yet). In which case, they may start trying to get more people to join twitter and subscribe to them.

That wouldn't be twitter being spammers, just twitter being leveraged by spammers.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

True. I did find this on a search for 'twitter emma' (http://twitter.com/EmmaEmail), which looks kinda stinky perhaps... but most of the top search results were for Emma Watson allegedly on Twitter.