Businesses are really scraping the barrel on this one. How long before those that still find Twitter to be fun and new, tire of being bombarded with spam in the same way as they are currently with email?
One of the reasons that Twitter is still attractive to some is the mystique that they are somehow missing out on something and/or they are not "hip". It is my prediction that the interest in Twitter (and social networking in general - Facebook as well) will soon wear off, hastened by the onslaught of mindless unsolicited promotions.
Those that pass-on tweets from commercial sources will soon become the pariahs of the Internet.
Also, I have heard from a couple of acquaintances that they have closed their Facebook accounts as they have been scared off with the recent account compromises reported in the press. Once again the antics of the few have frightened those that not totally sure how the Internet works and have decided to "play it safe". Leaving the field to those with nothing to loose. (or at least that is what they think - it may all come back to haunt them later in life)
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