Social Media 101 – Experiment

Published on Jul 31, 2009   //  Social Media

socialmedia1011Last week I wrote about not giving out your password. Did you listen and learn?

I did an experiment to find out. I created a quick little site and sent out 1 tweet about it. The tweet was…

@thinkreferrals have you seen this? http://twitterverified.com/

From that tweet 50 people clicked on the link and of those 50 people 44 of them entered a username and password.

That is right 88% of people shared their twitter username and password with a site that they should not have.

Please take into consideration that your account could be used maliciously if you give someone your password. Your followers would not appreciate you sending out porn, virus or spam to them if your account was compromised.

Do you share your password?

Do these results show a problem with social media users? or do you think all users would have a similar result?

Social Media 101 – How to Stop Twitter Updates on your Facebook Account

Published on Jul 29, 2009   //  Social Media

socialmedia1011Today for whatever reason which I am sure we will hear shortly twitter started updating my status on Facebook. I don’t remember asking Facebook or Twitter to do that so they got some explaining to do. Anyways lets get down to business. How do we fix it?

  1. Login to Facebook and click on Profile.
  2. Find a twitter status update on your Facebook profile and click on the “via Twitter” link.
  3. Then click “Block Application” on the left side menu.

That should remove it from happening for now.

Now on to finding out why it’s happening…

*Update*Techcrunch claims that an app was approved to show updates but I call BS. I never had that set up nor approved it.

Black Hat Social Media – Evil Scripts

Published on Jul 26, 2009   //  Social Media

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If there is a script that you can dream up there is a programmer that can make it. To make evil scripts you do not need to have any development knowledge just an idea of what you want. Here is how you do it…

  1. Come up with your script idea. Write it out in full in a text editor so your ready to go. Be as detailed as possible.
  2. Go to Scriptlance and create a webmaster account.
  3. Post your job. Be sure to post a maxium of $50 and to include no bids with Escrow in your job post.
  4. Wait for several developers to post and pick the one you think will do the best job.
  5. Do not pay anything until the script is 100%.

Have fun with your new evil scripts.

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Black Hat Social Media – Free Facebook Ads

Published on Jul 26, 2009   //  Social Media
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Facebook everyday puts out new coupons which allows you to test their advertising. You can game Facebook to get lots of free advertising. This is how…

  1. Use Google Blog search to search for the newest Facebook Coupons.
  2. Create a new Facebook account and use the coupon.
  3. Setup your ads and repeat step 2 until you the coupon doesn’t work anymore.

Sit back and wait for your $1 million dollar affiliate cheque to come in.

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Black Hat Social Media – Twitter Spammer

Published on Jul 26, 2009   //  Social Media

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Yes we all hate spam on twitter but it is really easy to do and according to most it is 90% profitable.

  1. Create 10 accounts each with a niche.
  2. Setup each of the 10 accounts with a full profile.
  3. Find 10 affiliate programs to join in that niche that are under $10 or better free.
  4. Setup the 10 accounts with tweetlater to auto DM your niche links.
  5. Use the hummingbird software to follow people who tweet about keywords that fall into that niche.
  6. Wait 24 hours and repeat step 5 over and over every day.
  7. Run the accounts as normal and then every 3 or 4 posts sneak in an affiliate link.

The people that do this say it converts 90% of the time.

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Black Hat Social Media – Selling Twitter Accounts

Published on Jul 26, 2009   //  Social Media

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Earlier I talked about twitter software that allows you to add and remove followers automatically on twitter. If you amass a large following you can sell these accounts for cash. Here is how…

  1. Create a new twitter account and be sure to set 100% up.
  2. Start adding people either by hand or using a script.
  3. Tweet a few times a day
  4. Follow more people again until you can grow the account over 2000 followers
  5. List your account here for sale.

So far there is no TOS against selling accounts on twitter but that might change.

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