Comments on: How Not To Launch A Twitter Account

By: Adam B

Adam B — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:30:04 +0000

Wow. It always seems to amaze me how stupid some people are. There doesn’t even seem to be any purpose of it.

By: Justin Cooke

Justin Cooke — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:38:34 +0000

It seems to me that creating a Twitter account with that username was actually more towards a sign of respect than anything else. That being said, who knows what god-awful tactics he was going to start using to spam the Twitter user base. Good riddance, I say.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:15:35 +0000

I was on Twitter for three months I hated every minute of it. It seems like a great big back stabbing community of middle school folks. I will pick only who I think is cool to be in my click sort of thing. Google indexed me and I frankly did not want to be on the front page of google. I like my personal life and I like it to be very private. Frankly it is no bodies business but my own what I am doing where I am going and what I have to say. So I closed my account and I am happy I did so.

By: SeoCracked.com

SeoCracked.com — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:43:31 +0000

It’s amazing what people will do to deceive people.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:25:56 +0000

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

I think the issue to this is not that he used the name “mattcutts” but rather what he did after. Just look at that repeating long line of senseless blah sent to a lot of people.

Reminds me of friends taking over another schoolmates PC in college who left their chat accounts open. They would send “I am gay” comments to everybody on the person’s contact list. Funny if you’re not the person. Anyway, the net is littered with so much crap today that we don’t need any more. I will flag that guy if I were in Twitter without batting an eyelash.

By: Doug Heil

Doug Heil — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:39:53 +0000

This entire thread is relevant to exactly what the biggest problem is with social media in general. An above comment stated that it’s scary to think about when you are indeed being impersonated by one or more people who know what they are doing. Social media as it stands right now does not have a long shelf life. Major issues have to be addressed with it before it goes years into the future with any teeth. One of those issues does have to do with being hidden on the internet. Is being totally anonymous the best way forward for the web? Or should there be an adjustment to that way of thinking? When is enough, enough already?

By: Multi-Worded Adam

Multi-Worded Adam — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:44:11 +0000

This is the worst comment i ever faced that we did spamming. we are very reputated company in India.

Did you acquire your reputation by setting up splogs full of links created with anchor text designed for “off-page optimization”? Seems to me that a “reputated” company wouldn’t go around doing that.

It’s also odd that “Pankaj Sharma” said the same thing as you did approximately 2 minutes later.

George you are not allowed to blame any company without any proof

Or else what? If you’re going to dictate to other people what they can and can’t do, you should at least have some clearly defined consequences for their actions.

By: Cryptblade

Cryptblade — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:11:36 +0000

I think this is great to see. #1 – it’s funny that someone would do that, #2 – even though annoying, man this joker is just polishing Matt’s chrome, that’s gotta get him an “atta boy” and #3 – seems like no real harm is done so it can’t be too serious.

Should Twitter become sooo intwined in a person or company’s identity and reputation, then this could be a problem. I think until Twitter reaches that level of usage – some “critical mass” stage where not having Twitter is akin to suicide – there isn’t much harm or foul done here.

By: Pankaj Sharma

Pankaj Sharma — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:02:36 +0000

Hey George,

Pankaj sharma is very common name name in India. If you will search on the web you’ll find thousand of Pankaj Sharma but not each of one is me.

this http://twitter.com/pankajsharmabhw profile is not mine and i also don’t know about this. I haven’t registered on Twitter.

So first confirm the person & then comment like this

By: gunakesh parmar

gunakesh parmar — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:00:36 +0000

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George Said,

January 23, 2009 @ 11:59 pm

hi all

that guy (pankaj sharma) is from indian company called greymatterindia.com
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George you are not allowed to blame any company without any proof.

This is the worst comment i ever faced that we did spamming. we are very reputated company in India.

Please make sure that in future you will not blame any one like this.

This account is not associated with Grey Matter India.

Pankaj Sharma from Grey Matter India not created any kind of fake account in any social networking site.