Comments on: No, @Oprah doesn’t really want you to watch that pirated copy of Harry Potter

By: Kawika

Kawika — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:23:13 +0000

Haha, that’s funny.

By: UPDATE: Are You Facebook's Ad Poster Child? Exploring Acceptable Use - ComponentGear.com Feed - ComponentGear.com

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:19:08 +0000

[...] that individuals have seen their social media-related identities hijacked for advertising purposes. Crunchgear recently reported a slew of tweets linking to phishing sites. Essentially a bot account has been [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:06:37 +0000

I’ve learned that all twitter profiles that feature a female torso with the face cropped off at about the chin level is a spambot.

By: Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:19:07 +0000

Oprah is a spambot.

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Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:20:46 +0000

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Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:43:53 +0000

By: Dante

Dante — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:26:17 +0000

Actually, I filled out the survey in hopes of watching Bruno… I ended up getting my cell phone charged for 9.99… about the price of a ticket… so yeah, it’s a relevant post.

By: Jason Barone

Jason Barone — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:14:03 +0000

Lol. What is everyone’s deal? Every post I’ve seen here recently has a commenter grilling the author about posting content that doesn’t belong in TechCrunch. Is it really that hard to just skip the post after reading the first sentences?

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:53:26 +0000

The spammers get people to fill out surveys. People filling out surveys (for third parties) makes money for the spammers. Pretty obvious really (if you read the post).

By: Article Playground

Article Playground — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:05:05 +0000

Arrington is slick for mentioning himself in the middle of everyone else in this post..LOL

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:46:47 +0000

Well, thanks for directing everyone to the free content.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:14:53 +0000

This is the very reason why their is such a noticeable demographic shift. Among the upcoming generation embracing facebook as their social platform among other networks and having little to do with this horrendous web app called twitter.

And the place to watch movies is um Voure.com

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New Twitter Spam Scam Uses Fake Celebrity RTs — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:47:22 +0000

[...] today CrunchGear reported on a new form of Twitter span that was taking the service by [...]

By: dan

dan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:40:19 +0000

I’m sure he didn’t Copy/Paste to Microsoft Word.

I’m sure.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:31:45 +0000

how about the fact that you counted all the words?

By: Israel V

Israel V — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:25:52 +0000

Techcrunch: it’s the new Scientology!

By: Zacqary Adam Green

Zacqary Adam Green — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:18:23 +0000

YOU get a legal defense against the MPAA! YOU get a legal defense against the MPAA! YOU get a legal defense against the MPAA! EVERYBODY GETS A LEGAL DEFENSE AGAINST THE MPAA!

By: Grant Robertson

Grant Robertson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:16:06 +0000

Ask yourself, which is more lame? A not-very effective spam campaign on Twitter, or the fact that you squeezed 242 words out of it?

Blog fail.

By: Fermin Suero

Fermin Suero — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:05:33 +0000

“although I wouldn’t put it past Oprah”

Care to explain?

By: Giacomo DiGrigoli

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:36:57 +0000

Yet another reason for Twitter to consider officially integrating RT functionality into their product.