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Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

hurtzsogood — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:52:57 -0000

I have to admit and especially because I have a site, work a full time job, and real life shows up from time to time, that I don't interact with my twitter followers the way I should. With all the apps that gaurentee hundreds of twitter follower a day alot of people/companies do view followers as currency. I don't seek follower they usually come to me, maybe because I use an auto tweet app(shame on me), but this is an eye opener. To hear that the interaction is more valuable than the number of followers then I have work to do. As far as an app that allows you to gamble followers I BET it catches on.
hurtzsogood

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

BlitzWing00 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:38:39 -0000

I would never play this type of game with my followers, and I even have stronger feelings should the people I follow decide to play this game and lost. If I ended up following somebody else because I was gambled away, I'd be somewhat mad at the person I followed for gambling me....but I would have an Extreme Animosity towards the App that allowed this to happen in the first place.

It's like your bookmarks in your browser....imagine if your bookmarks changed to a random link and you couldn't find the original link again. You then missed content from the original link. On top that you didn't agree to any of this, and it happens unbeknownst to you. You'd be pissed when you found out wouldn't you?

Note: I was going to explain what I meant by "Extreme Animosity", but it kept coming out way too hostile....suffice to say, I would not be amused. =)

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Darren Dewey — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:20:03 -0000

What's so "interesting" in this? Of course some people will be all too happy to risk followers. There's nothing new about some folks regarding people as a commodity. Armies have been doing it forever, or haven't you ever heard of the term "acceptable losses?"

I figure this will fall into 3 main groups, all represented in this thread:
1) People who won't participate for whatever reason.
2) People who are curious and may check it out, but will only risk "spambots."
3) People who will jump in with both feet.

If Twitter were smart, they'd axe this app a.s.a.p. It violates their ToS and they need to keep that iron-clad or risk other abuses in the future.

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Otto — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:10:31 -0000

First, this game cannot "take" your followers. It can only fake it. Here's how it works:

1. It can make you "lose" followers by blocking and then unblocking them. This causes a follower to not be following you anymore.

2. It can make you "gain" followers by using the people who play the game as pawns. Essentially, once you've played the game, the game now has access to your account and can make you follow anybody it wants. So you're now the currency on the other end. When you "win", it takes other people who have played the game and makes them follow you.

If you play, then you will end up following other people who play and won you. If you don't play, then it can't ever make you follow somebody else.

Yes, you can bet your spammer followers, but be warned! Playing this game means you will be used to follow other people. Your followers are not the currency, you are. If you played and don't want to get follow random people in the future, disconnect the app by going to http://twitter.com/account/... and removing it!

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Erik Berlin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:51:20 -0000

As it says on the Bet Your Followers home page, you can "Choose who you risk."

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

davies — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:39:31 -0000

sucks, because you might get stuck with someone like http://twitter.com/filthyri...

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

ConcretelyAmbiguous — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:32:25 -0000

I love it! Mark my words, this will spread like wildfire. If I'm right, become a follower of mines at www.twitter.com/CAmbiguous. Something else I know is that NO ONE can DO the following! Nobody.. http://concretelyambiguous....

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

ConcretelyAmbiguous — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:31:56 -0000

I love it! Mark my words, this will spread like wildfire. If I'm right, become a follower of mines at www.twitter.com/CAmbiguous.

Something else I know is that NO ONE can DO the following! Nobody..
http://concretelyambiguous....

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

zzdinko — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:24:51 -0000

OMgosh no way dude, right when you thought good ole Tweet couldnt get any better!

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www.web-tools.us.tc

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Gioword — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:33:55 -0000

I think it’s a really interesting topic.

But also a fine topic to get an idea of today’s online discussion. I wonder if and how many comments this article gets.

And what does that say? That we care? Or do we consume daily news as we consume our bread: thoughtless? Is ‘what’s new and interesting‘ determined by our own followers, or do we still rely on well known sources; sites and bloggers with the most followers?

In that respect, it makes sense to question the ‘currency‘ of ‘followers’.

And there’s another thing: the intruiging Power of Numbers. Weight. Mass. Depth. As the makers of Bet Your Followers wrote: “we’ve watched the race to accrue followers become a strange obsession.” The search for followers may stand for the archetypical desire to gather an army to conquer the world, or to build a stronghold to hide behind.

If so, a game like Bet Your Followers may well be the start of a new kind of online strategic games, with a highly realistic touch. Speaking about shocking, remember the game “World Domination” from the James Bond movies?

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Diane Trujillo — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:26:55 -0000

The concept behind this is indeed interesting, but I completely agree with your opinion of it. I would use this for one reason and one reason only: to get rid of the spammers who follow me, instead of simply blocking them, in the hopes that I would get actual people who might even be interesting and worth following back. I realize what a long shot that is, though, for who's to say that the majority of people using this app aren't using it the same way as I would?

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

smartie — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:25:37 -0000

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I just started using it myself and it's
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Thought it might interest you.

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Donagh Mc Sweeney — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:33:39 -0000

An interesting app. I won't be using it but I can see why they developed it. People are far too concerned with followers. People look and see that they have 100 followers and get pissed off that they don't have 500. Why? You've got 100 people listening to what you're saying!! You've got an audience! If you want to grow it engage with others and give back to the commnuity!

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Donagh Mc Sweeney — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:30:32 -0000

It's a social experiment. The artilcle explains everything clearly!

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Qapacity — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:30:01 -0000

It's the perfect app for those times when you feel down and you're all like "the heck with it" I guess. When you're going to quit your (social media) job etc.

And the graphics are nice:)

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Noreen Mastellon — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:18:00 -0000

What exactly is the purpose of Bet Your Followers? Doesn't this ultimately defeat the purpose of what tweeting stands for?

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Liz — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:22:18 -0000

It's an interesting social experiment. But most people/followers don't want to be objects in someone else's experiment.

I certainly don't want to have to have to follow someone who "won" me and I can't imagine it's valid by Twitter's TOU to force people to follow someone they haven't chosen to follow.

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

BostonBevs — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:57:24 -0000

i played this game before and my account was disabled after i won. these guys either a) changed their account or b) stole the idea from the people that got my account suspended.

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

TheReason — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:54:01 -0000

This app is no good to have around. Each twitter user chooses who they follow. It can not be determined by someone else who an individual follows. If I click "follow" on a twitter account, I expect to follow that one account. I do not expect that there is a method where I could be transferred over and then automatically follow someone I did not want to.
I like the concept but I hope this app and anything like it is removed quickly. I can see bots taking control of this app.

How about loser automatically retweets the winners next tweet?

The only way this gamble app will work is if the only people involved are the players.

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

niczar — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:39:39 -0000

> Many Twitter users could care less if they have 10 or 10,000 followers,

I disagree. I believe most Twitter users do not care at all, and therefore could *not* care less.

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Igor Kheifets — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:10:18 -0000

WOW, never would thought I'd see such a thing occur.
The game looks fun (look at the guerilla's bottom) but it sure is unethical and against the terms of use.

Igor

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Crasher Squirrel — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:30:28 -0000

I'm honestly getting burnt out on Twitter. Chasing after celebrities was a big mistake.... Facebook is kicking their asses....

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

james — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:13:09 -0000

Followers does not equate to currency but can be considered as an investment. Investment in a sense that you can sell to them, get motivated by them, received new ideas from them, or even build an army to take down a country.

But a leader/business person wouldn't sell/gamble his leads to another unless the business is already going down.

Just my opinion.

By the way the article has an interesting insight. More power.

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Beiruta — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:25:03 -0000

Absolutely NOT!

Re: Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

Jake Mates — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:20:38 -0000

They immediately block and then unblock the the follower.