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posted by CoolHand on Thursday May 07 2015, @09:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the new-platform-trolling dept.

Ethanol-fueled and darkfeline wrote in with an Ars Technica article on a demonstration of how promoted tweets can be easily abused:

Promoted tweets have been part of the Twitter service since 2010, and they've allowed advertisers to pick and choose who sees specific ads based on "what a user chooses to follow, how they interact with a Tweet, what they retweet, and more." But users have found how loosely those ads are monitored or filtered before they reach users' eyeballs—and how cheap, fast, and easy the system can be exploited to annoy users as opposed to "engaging" them.

"I decided to spend a few pennies on Twitter ads today," [Weev's] post started, and he asserted that the platform's pricing structures "don't seem to take into account that one might want only to generate negative reactions to ad campaigns." Though Auernheimer didn't say exactly which users/groups he chose to target in his trolling campaign, he listed examples that appeared to jive with the sample of angry responses that followed: people who are active in Democratic political campaigns or animal rights groups; women who shop for fine jewelry; followers of known feminist sites like Jezebel and Feministing.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by kaszz on Thursday May 07 2015, @09:58AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday May 07 2015, @09:58AM (#179831) Journal

    It will be the same way as software done by corporate cubicles vs FOSS software. But with a new twist. Software done by approved people vs people that are just good at what they are doing.

    And who gets to decide who will be "ok" ..? It smells gatekeeping, privileges, irrelevant agenda etc. All feel good but bad results in reality.

    Being polite to other group members in projects you work on is one thing. Policing their personal life something completely different.

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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @10:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @10:02AM (#179833)

    They've already gotten free software deleted from it's host because the author was a sexist: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1310 [ibiblio.org]
    http://whatwillweuse.com/fodder/terrorware/ [whatwillweuse.com]

    They passed that milestone years ago even.

  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @01:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @01:15PM (#179880)

    dont feed the fucking troll......

  • (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday May 07 2015, @02:38PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Thursday May 07 2015, @02:38PM (#179925) Journal

    What about ReiserFS?

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    You're betting on the pantomime horse...
    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday May 07 2015, @02:45PM

      by kaszz (4211) on Thursday May 07 2015, @02:45PM (#179928) Journal

      Not being polite is one thing. Murder is another..
       

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @03:59AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @03:59AM (#180183)

      A filesystem by a man who did the correct thing.
      Deuteronomy supports his actions. He followed the law of God.