600% Twitter Growth & Amount of Spam E-mail Quadruples, Is there a correlation
ByMarketingCharts: New Twitter Users Drive 600% Growth; Personalized Spam Quadruples;
Twitter’s New Users Drive 600% Growth
Popular microblogging site Twitter now has about 4M-5M users, the majority of whom joined in 2008 and have contributed to the site’s 600% growth in the last 12 months, according to the first “State of the Twittershpere” (pdf) report from HubSpot. The research, which covers…
Spam Doubles, Personalized Spam Quadruples in 2008
Spam nearly doubled worldwide since last year and now accounts for nearly 200 billion email messages each day (approximately 90% of email sent), while “personalized” spam based on personal information stolen from the web, has quadrupled in the same time period, according to a study…
Now, is there a correlation? I hardly think so but are the twitter people running away from the spammers. But what am I doing following hundreds, thousands of people? Can I say that it is just another form of sophisticated spamming? Help me here? What is going on?
