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Re:How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my... by bengali3 on Friday May 09, 2014 @11:16AM (#7721305)
There's a difference between holding up a 1x1 foot sign at a gathering of friends and planting a 1x1 foot sign on your lawn.

Are you expecting your tweets to be private or public?

If you publicly announce a problem, (and asking for public comments back.. ) then it is not spam if you get a relevant and appropriate message sent to you.

Scaping usernames here however is not comparable to the blog post's example

edit: misrepresentation as 'just another follower' is what i am against here.

Re:How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my... by wpietri on Friday May 09, 2014 @06:28PM (#7723592)
My tweets are public. As are my posts here. From both, I am easily contactable. But if you are doing it in bulk to push your product, it is spam.