This week, I realised that Twitter is in danger of SPAM. Or will it be an enrichment? How Twitter can be used for targeted advertisement.
This week, my car needed a checkup. Since I do things digital as much as possible, I made the appointment with the garage by internet. That went quite well. Because I needed to transport quite a lot of stuff, I asked for a bigger car. I have a Volvo V50 myself, and they gave me a Volvo XC70 AWD T5. That's quite a car! I was very happy, 'cause the stuff I needed to transport was so much, that it hadn't fit in my own car. It just fitted in the XC70. I was happy with the car, because it still was very fast and had no problem with the weight.
After I returned the car, I tweeted this message:
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| "Today I was happy: car was serviced and the temp car was a brand new Volvo XC70 - happy me!" |
...Image my surprise - yes, I really was surprised! - When I got this reply:
That means Dealer24x7 is running an engine to search tweets about car brands, and then replying to it! How brilliant is that!
Of course it can mean, that if more -and also sleezy- companies and advertisers start to do this, Twitter might get flooded with advertisements. I wonder what happens. What I know for sure: Twitter will live on for some time...
2 comments:
I got that same thing while mentioning the word "webcam" in a tweet. I received a tweet from some webcam website (an xxx-rated one). "Block and report spam" was my answer, and it worked. Try that, and this 24x7 car twitteraccount will never bother you again. :-)
I thought you were a Saab man... Or don't you like the fact that Spijker owns it nowadays? ;-)
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