[photorized]

So, would you all like to see an example of some really sophisticated ongoing twitter spam, that normally stays undetected?

On the one hand, it's our competitor (so I understand my motives could be questioned). On the other hand, I feel companies that employ these practices (and VC firms that support them) should be called out.

WDYT?

[photorized]

Disclaimer:

We built a product for researching competition. Part of its core functionality is monitoring Twitter activity related to a given company and determining where their popularity is coming from, and who is influencing it.

Naturally, we’re testing the product by monitoring other companies in the Competitive Intelligence space, so we know what we’re up against. The list of companies we added was determined by questions we’d been asked by prospects, “how does iTrend compare against X in terms of Competitive Intelligence?”.

One company, Owler, immediately stood out due to some very unusual patterns. All of their top promoters appear to be their own accounts. Each account is going through companies' Twitter handles alphabetically, sending them a message based on what appears to be a series of predetermined templates.

Details with screenshots, if anyone is interested:

http://blog.itrendcorporation.com/2015/03/09/researching-com...

[icelancer]

As long as you disclose your conflict of interest upfront, the facts are the facts if you stick to them.

[jsprogrammer]

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