So last night i posted the following tweet:
I dunno how hulu does it but it always matches the perfect ads tailored for me. Clearly i should rush to the store to get me some monastat
What then followed was a flurry of activity from spam bots. Its not uncommon to get spammers @replying you when you use keyword laden tweets. What seemed unusual abou this tweet was I got four spams in rapid succession. It was 2 in the morning so spammers were probably the only one who even saw that tweet the first time. But it inspired an idea for a game. The premise is simple, how many spams can you get from a single tweet, without the tweet being meaningless on its own.
The rules are a bit more complicated to pin down because the mechanisms behind the tweet bots are still a bit unpredictable. I tried repeating the tweet earlier today to attempt to see if I would get similar result. I still got a spam tweet, but only the one. without the results being repeatable it certainly loses a lot of the fun factor in crafting the perfect storm tweet to destroy your messagebox. I still think there is something here though that could be a lot of fun. possibly. I need a lot more data though.
Anyone else wanna play with me? For now you can just post your best score in the comments along with any suggestions. I guess were on the honor system as tweet bots don’t @reply to the tweet itself usually but just to the user directly so there isn’t the metadata linking spams to specific tweets even if I knew how to pull that info.