4Chan's Plan to Game Twitter (The Race to 1 Million)

[calvin]

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/operation_basement_dad_how_4chan_is_manipulating_twitter.php

[tdavis]

The joke's on everybody: Spammers surpassed the mark for 1 million recipients of useless information years ago! They make up 95% of e-mail now; nobody can beat that!

Still, I hope 4Chan wins. Just to piss off everybody who somehow thinks this matters.

[Batsu → tdavis]

I agree. I completely hate the fact that having one million followers is considered main stream news somehow.

[greyman → tdavis]

I see CNN and Kutcher already got 1M followers.

[lpgauth]

Script used - http://ampaste.net/mbce6473

[falsestprophet]

It costs about $1000 to have 1,000,000 CAPTCHAs solved by hand. They could ask for donations or just use stolen credit card numbers to pay the Indians.

[mooted → falsestprophet]

Indians?

[potatolicious → mooted]

Probably the cheapest way to crack captchas manually... I hate to generalize, but any idiot can find willing foreign labour (and maybe even some domestic?) to crack captchas on sites like elance.

[windsurfer]

CNN, Kutcher, 4Chan. The race to be the biggest twit.