Monthly Archives: January 2009

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Merge Challenged Spammer

Has it come to this ?

If spammers are going to continue to pester the rest of us, the least they can do is do their annoying job properly.

In today’s email, this eh-hole didn’t even finish his find-replace (merge is probably far too technical). Hence..

I am John Woogies, and I am the General Manager for . We are a group of
business oriented people who deal primarily in screen process, wicks and braids.. [rest snipped because it’s the usual crap

John John John. If you’re going to take the time and trouble to send thousand of emails out to people who know better, the least you can do is take some pride in your work, as horrid as it is. General Manager for ??? What ???

If this is what’s become of the art of spam, no wonder the economy is in the toilet.

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Those Darned Email Links

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I love Twitter.

Now that it hardly ever goes sleepy, we’ve got nothing to complain about.

Except today, I registered a new Twitter user for a client, and as usual Twitter sent a lovely email back with info about the account etc.

Problem is the email link to their ‘invite your friends’ page is 404.

Hello, new Twitter-er!

Using Twitter is going to change the way you think about staying in touch with friends and family. Did you know you can send and receive Twitter updates via mobile texting or the web? To do that, you’ll want to visit your settings page (and you’ll want to invite some friends).

Activate Phone: http://twitter.com/devices
Invite Your Friends: http://twitter.com/invitations/invite

The New York Times calls Twitter “one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet.” TIME Magazine says, “Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app,” and Newsweek noted that “Suddenly, it seems as though all the world’s a-twitter.” What will you think? http://twitter.com

Thanks again for signing up!

– Biz Stone and The Twitter Team

Maybe they’ll fix the page.

In the meantime, I think at least one of the right URLs for the Invite Your Friends is http://twitter.com/invitations/invite_by_email