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TwitHit #twitthit TwitterHit

May 15th, 2009 by David Bradley >> 2 Comments

Making friends online is not too different to making friends offline, it’s just that electrons move much faster than vocal chords, so things can happen quicker and be more fleeting in virtual communities.

So, when a tool emerges that promises you dozens of new online friends on twitter within a few seconds and asks only for your password in exchange, you should by now be asking, “scam?”.

Whether it’s a scam or not, it isn’t “AWESOME” to have dozens of new twitter friends aggregated only because they too have piled into some hollow pyramid marketing scheme for gathering twitterIDs. Where’s the engagement, where’s the point, where’s the actual friendship?

TwitterHIT is trending on Twitter right now…I’d suggest giving it a miss, it’s probably not quite as AWESOME as they claim, in fact I suspect it’s AWFUL. Oh, and if it is a scam to get your password, and you bit, then they probably already hijacked your twitter account in the time it took you to check out your dozens of new fwends…


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  • Chris Denman // May 18, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Hi Dude.

    I am the author of TwitterHIT.

    And yes, I agree, the first few days went a little wrong.

    However, based on the masses of feedback, I have changed the way it works.

    You now can only add up to 20 people, and you have to choose them FIRST.

    This is a much better solution.

    Also, if you don’t like your status changed, but still want to use the tool – then all I ask for is $2 and you can choose more people and your status isn’t changed.

    Like I say – I didn’t realise how fast TwitterHIT would grow and have learned from the mistakes!

    I hope you now like it a little more!

    Chris Denman

  • David Bradley // May 18, 2009 at 11:58 am

    Thanks for the update Chris. I may take another look. I do think it’s still worth warning people to investigate any new tool that asks for their password to any system before they jump in.