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Re:Pay With A Tweet by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @09:38AM (#1759608)
> this creates a win-win situation for both the payer and the payee.

And a loss for every follower of the "payer".

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Re:Pay With A Tweet by prawn on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @09:43AM (#1759627)
Not every, just most. The time I saw this used, I was quite interested to learn of the concept (as an entrepreneur admiring the idea) and find out about the band being promoted.

I've seen it once, which is a lot less than I've seen people checking in with Foursquare stuff which is excruciatingly boring.

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Re:Pay With A Tweet by dho on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @09:57AM (#1759702)
You could use an account with no real followers.
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Re:Pay With A Tweet by whatusername on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @11:54AM (#1760190)
Just like we all have something like a fake/spam email address (that we give out to the sites we don't care about) -- we'll end up with fake twitter accounts.

Also - can't we just filter this out from a client?

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