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This is strange: 5 minutes ago i twittered this:
” Installed new Cisco 5-port mini switch – connection to my Zyxel NSA-220 is a LOT faster now”
A minute later, I receive this email:
“Cisco IT (ciscoit) is now following your updates on Twitter.
Check out Cisco IT’s profile here:
You tell me that’s not a bot? Can anybody else try to verify this (just tweet something with “cisco” in the text).
(Cool – that post made Network World. Still not entirely sure what to think of this. Sure, the “new follower” is not spamming me with messages, but the technique used is exactly that of other Twitter spammers: follow me to make me look at their page.)
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Cisco’s spamming Twitters? Posted by Cisco Subnet – July 22, 2008 on 5:49 pm | In Cisco | No Comments Be careful how you tweet. Blogger gadgetguy.de isaskingwhether Cisco is automatically spamming Twitters. Just a minute after updating his Twitter account with a remark about how installing a Cisco 5-port mini switch has improved his network storage appliance, he received an e-mail saying that Cisco
Hi Gadget Guy,
No, this is not a bot. The Cisco IT twitter feed is managed by a real, flesh and blood person who is posting content from Cisco IT that shares how Cisco products and solutions have been implmented in the Cisco enterprise infrastructure.
The Cisco IT feed is brand new, and is looking to find individuals who are interested in their content. Initially, this is being done by searching for keywords using summize, and reaching out.
I apologize if the follow is unwanted – let us know by replying to @ciscoit and we will unfollow if you want.
Regards,
Kevin
Hi Gadget Guy,
No, this is not a bot. The Cisco IT twitter feed is managed by a real, flesh and blood person who is posting content from Cisco IT that shares how Cisco products and solutions have been implmented in the Cisco enterprise infrastructure.
The Cisco IT feed is brand new, and is looking to find individuals who are interested in their content. Initially, this is being done by searching for keywords using summize, and reaching out.
I apologize if the follow is unwanted – let us know by replying to @ciscoit and we will unfollow if you want.
Regards,
Kevin
[...] my post two days ago, I received an email from Kevin at Cisco: “No, this is not a bot. The Cisco IT twitter feed [...]
It is not a “bot” (not of theirs anyway), it is a built in feature of twitter and they are not doing it to spam you and make you look at their page. They are following you because you wrote about cisco and therefore they are interested in what you have to say. So just like any other person that wants to listen to your posts they signed up to follow you.