It’s time to expose another Twitter scam. The Twitter Traffic Machine, the brainchild of self titled social networking evangelist and professional monopoly player Bill Crosby, makes it’s ugly presence felt all over the Twittersphere with alarming regularity. The reason for it’s obscene level of penetration is pretty obvious to anyone used to this sort of [...]
Posted : 19 June 2009
Choosing the right blogging path
In a week that has seen the news dominated by revelations of dishonesty, profiteering, racketeering, and tax fraud in the political establishment it seems fitting that the following story found it’s way onto my radar.
Don’t worry, I am not going to link to the person behind the following scam. I will quote from his blog [...]
Posted : 15 May 2009
Categories : BloggingTags : Automatic Blogging, RSS2Blog, Scam, Spam Blogging
Brute Force Twitter scammers fire back with a cease and desist order
Last Friday’s blog post, in which I exposed Brute Force Twitter as a scam and revealed its so called secrets step by step, has ruffled a few feathers. Regular readers will know that Upstart Blogger is no stranger to controversy having had near legal encounters with many self appointed gurus who happen to get annoyed [...]
Posted : 04 May 2009
Categories : Blogging, Social NetworkingTags : Brute Force Twitter, Cease And Desist, Scam, Twitter
The Brute Force Twitter method that guarantees thousands of new followers every day exposed
If you’ve been active on Twitter, or even just setup a Twitter account and searched for a few guides on how to grow your following, you’ll have probably bumped into the latest get rich quick scam known as Brute Force Twitter. It’s yet another one of those ridiculous schemes that use a one page website [...]
Posted : 01 May 2009
Categories : Blogging, Social NetworkingTags : Brute Force Twitter, Porsche 911, Scam, Twitter
Why I decided against writing a typical April fool’s day article
I’ve just deleted my original April fool’s day post. The working title was The reverse funnel atomic pay per click blogging secret to a six figure blogging income in just four minutes per week.
It was quite clearly a swipe at the pro blogging establishment. Here’s a quick excerpt from the text that I just deleted.
It’s [...]
Posted : 01 April 2009
Categories : BloggingTags : Alvin Phong, April fool's day, Darren Rowse, John Chow, Scam, Tim Ferris