Ask HN: Is Spamming the only way to get users?

Re:Ask HN: Is Spamming the only way to get users? by tptacek on Monday May 06, 2013 @10:04PM (#5666140)

Who did Instagram spam? Would you rather have been Instagram or Path?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Spamming the only way to get users? by FramesPerSushi on Monday May 06, 2013 @10:34PM (#5666247)

Who did Facebook spam? Would you rather be Facebook or Instagram?

I don't have a strong opinion on this topic, just pointing out a flaw in your logic.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Spamming the only way to get users? by tptacek on Monday May 06, 2013 @11:20PM (#5666351)

Who did Facebook spam?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Spamming the only way to get users? by ceeK on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @09:21AM (#5667962)

I don't know the history, but the social network movie highlighted the spamming of his college network through email.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Spamming the only way to get users? by jplewicke on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @12:19PM (#5668922)

I wasn't inconvenienced by it, but I remember myself and everyone at Dartmouth receiving a single email inviting us to join Facebook at the same time somewhere in the early winter of 2004. It wasn't a viral action like "your friend has added you", but was instead a direct invitation to sign up. I remember my roommates and I all immediately signed up and wasted the first of many hours on there.

I think the email was from another Dartmouth student, so I assume they just paid someone to send the entire campus an email.

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