Tag Archive for 'twitter'

Twitter spammers: Clickbank/Keynetics affiliates

Published by Peter on July 14, 2008 in advertising and spam. 6 Comments

I’ve been experimenting with Twitter a couple of times, and one of the results, the FM Brussel Live playlist twitter bot, seems to be rather popular. I get a couple of subscriptions per day. But recently they’re almost all of the form [name of girl][number of 2 - 4 digits]. This is what they look like:

Twitter followers: suspicious lot

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FM Brussel playlist live on Twitter

Published by Peter on April 16, 2008 in Brussel and Web2.0. 2 Comments

Via Pietel I heard of a Twitter account that publishes the playlist of StuBru in real-time. Interesting, but I listen to FM Brussel. How hard would it be to make the same thing for FM Brussel? Not that hard, it appears. After some twiddling with curl, twitter API and other PHP, here is the Twitter account for the playlist of FM Brussel.

http://twitter.com/fmbrussel