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[News] [Rival] Carphone Warehouse May be Breaking the Law by AstroTurfing, Microsoft Shills More In Twitter

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Carphone Warehouse May be Breaking the Law by AstroTurfing, Microsoft Shills More In Twitter
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:29:51 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.9
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Carphone Warehouse is now sending spam to ask for blog spam.

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| This just arrived and appears genuine. Carphone Warehouse are (a) sending 
| spam (b) to request blog spam. I suggest not dealing with them, cancelling 
| existing contracts with them, and telling them why.  
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http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2009/07/13/carphone-warehouse-is-now-sending-spam-to-ask-for-blog-spam/

Welcome to Twitter, @Microsoft, now can you fix my computer?

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| As of late Wednesday, the new Microsoft account had three posts -- one 
| pointing to a new feature, one to a new product, and another to a positive  
| review of Microsoft's Bing search engine. 
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Welcome_to_Twitter_Microsoft_now_can_you_fix_my_computer_49681692.html


Related:

Fake bloggers soon to be 'named and shamed'

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| From December 31, when the change becomes law in the UK, they
| can be named and shamed by trading standards or taken to court.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1361968.ece


Microsoft Tweets About Impending Zune News, Office 2010

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| Microsoft is hinting that a new Zune offering could be coming next month.
|
| Through a new Twitter account, @officethemovie, the company said Monday
| afternoon that "June 2009 will be an important month for Zune users."
| Microsoft's Zune MP3 player is the vendor's answer to the Apple iPod.
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http://www.crn.com/software/217400384;jsessionid=GSGAPL3CJDNNAQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN


Officethemovie – One to keep an eye on?

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| Having looked at the account, IMO theres certainly room for suspicion and the
| account may be of interest to people who dont like the idea of FUD being
| spread at the expense of alternative to Microsoft products.
|
| What makes me suspicious is the fact that at the time of writing this they
| follow no people.
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/officethemovie-one-to-keep-an-eye-on/


Microsoft on Twitter! Flanakin Microwalker on Windows 7!

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| As regulars here are aware, in between commenting on tech issues, I do like
| to challenge comments which I think need clarity at the very least.  Heres
| Flanakin hes a senior development consultant for Microsoft and would like to
| tell you a few things about Windows 7:
|
| “wow… the polish on Win7 RC is absolutely beautiful… some small things are
| astoundingly better than the beta”
|
| “repaving my oldest machine with Win7 RC”
|
| and whats the spec of this old PC? Two months old is it?
|
| [...]
|
| So I decided to give Flanakin Microwalker’s site a visit.
| http://michaelflanakin.com/ heres a snippet of what he has to say there:
|
| “I’m an open source advocate, when it makes sense, and have a strong software
| engineering and architecture background.”
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/microsoft-on-twitter-flanakin-microwalker-on-windows-7/


A strange one on Twitter - Or is it?

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| For your enjoyment, heres a selection of their “gems of wisdom” from Twitter:
|
| “Stock Tips of the day. MSFT is releasing a new Xbox, Windows 7, cloud
| computing. Buy in now before the stock goes up! Way up!”
|
| “Microsoft Stores to Include Games, Xbox Goodies, and Software! Investors
| love this! A hot BUY op!”
|
| “Show your support for #Microsoft by buying MSFT stocks.”
|
| “Secret tech stock that you must own right now. MSFT (#Microsoft)”
|
| “I’m buying MSFT stocks right now. My analysts forecast it at $24.”
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/a-strange-one-on-twitter-or-is-it/


Microsoft + Federated Media + Twitter = ExecTweets

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| I was curious if there was more to the ExecTweets site than met the eye. Was
| Microsoft just paying for advertising/marketing mentions on Twitter?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2344


Microsoft's PR agency releases Twitter trend-tracking tool

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| A growing number of Softies are Twittering these days, as are members of
| Microsoft’s primary public-relations firm, Waggener Edstrom.
|
| Like many tech PR firms, WaggEd also monitors religiously Twitter trends
| involving its biggest client. On March 11, WaggEd went beyond simply
| monitoring tweets: It introduced a beta version of a software tool for
| monitoring and analyzing them.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2282
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