Posted on 09/03/2009 5:18:23 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
It's an age-old tale: site becomes popular, slags and hags use it for financial gain, the olds get mad. And Twitter is not immune. Thus, Business Week's Sarah Lacy warns the company to clean up its act.
Though she once praised Twitter, Lacy has since become disillusioned by the amount of skin-centric span that's clogging her and her friends' feeds. Yes, there are ways to block the site's cabal of sluts, but Lacy argues it's far too hard, so she's offering Twitter her own advice — and knocks Tila Tequila in the process:
There's no reason why Twitter shouldn't be catching spam, or at least making it easier to report.
Unless, of course, Twitter wants to be the new MySpace (NWS). After all, a lot of that site's early growth came from call girls, strippers, and purveyors of porn. Tila Tequila, who has been pictured in Playboy, Penthouse, and other publications, even got an MTV show out of MySpace.... If Twitter wants growth for the sake of growth, porn will do that.
But knowing the founders, my guess is that the site doesn't want that kind of success. Lewd content helped hobble MySpace's advertising efforts.
With The Olds leading the Twitter revolution, Lacy insists the site do something about this madness or face the consequences. But we say there's a far easier solution: don't "follow" or click on links to people you don't know, especially if they have whorish names like "Kiki" or "Cocoa" or feature pictures of bikini-covered breasts.
Even if Lacy and other worried people do leave the site, it shows no signs of slowing down, especially since a federal judge just launched a page that educates kids on civics and DePaul University is offering a class all about the site. If anything, Lacy's arguments will only help the site: you're nobody until somebody tries to stir up a frenzy of "family values" outrage.
Well.. Meghan McCain is making a name for herself on Twitter.. not implying anything.. just saying...
No! They’ll just have to change the name to Twatter.
As soon as I joined MySpace, I started getting “Slut Spam” right away.
Keith Olbermann Twitters ?
When I used to go to the Indy 500, I remember about half the sluts of the midwest and upper south used to show up. It seemed to be a slut-friendly environment.
It has gone beyond slut spam, had a ‘follower’ that was a full on porn shot.
I don’really even know what Twitter is—how it works. And that’s fine by me. Then again I’ve ne er once seen “Idol” or “Dancing with the Stars” or “Survivor” or you name it. And I’m afgraid that if I were ever to go to DU, I’d come back with some sort of crusty red rash.
To hard...that is just bull.
When you sign up your account you tell twitter that no one gets to follow you or post to you with out your permission.
Its a done deal.
Good grief.
I feel so rejected.. I only get emails from poor, innocent sweet women looking for someone to chat with. They are all so poor, they have problems with their clothing staying on.
He even had a section on slut economics and regulation in pre-WWII Honolulu.
Did you know that a slut almost became the Queen of England? Wallis Simpson. The story was put out was that the Royal Family was disturbed by the fact that she was divorced. That wasn’t the real objection. British intelligence found out that she worked as a who...slut in Shanghai where Caucasian hook...sluts earned top dollar. When she met Prince Edward, she used her slut skills to total dominate him.
Maybe they still would be an empire if.. well...
Rules, damnit!
You don’t actually want me to post a pic of Wallis Simpson? She wasn’t good-looking at all. However, she possessed superior slut skills and so totally dominated Prince Edward that soon after he was crowned king, he abdicated the throne for the “woman he loved.” Unbelievable. The guy is ruler of England and he gives that all up for a plain looking slut. I read a bio about them and it wasn’t until years later that he realized what a DUmb mistake he made.
I’ve been getting a lot of viruses sent through my freerepublic.com email lately.
Anyone else had this issue?
To say nothing of the second Mrs. Aaron Burr, Eliza Jumel.
Good thing that Nazi sympathizer did abdicate.
What was the story on her?
Worked as a prostitute in Rhode Island as a teenager, following in her mother’s footsteps.
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