Comments on: The Twitter Traffic Machine scam exposed

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:19:36 +0000

Well… what you say is accurate, but if you learn the principles behind it, then manipulate it to be more custom to who you are and what you do.. then it WILL work for you. Stop hating and find the truth in what this guy did because you could improve and make it better. I DID do it and my twitter account was growing like crazy… just sayin :) dont knock it til you try it and figure it out… better yet, or just dont and miss out :)

By: Robert Benes

Robert Benes — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:35:15 +0000

This almost sounds a bit illegal, or at the least kinda like a multi-level marketing scheme like Amway has always been. I don’t understand what all these people are selling to make the money they say is coming in?

By: @Twicka

@Twicka — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:38:07 +0000

Bravo!
I get so tired of seeing all of the MLM zombies falling for this stuff and polluting my tweet stream with links to this garbage! Good for you for having the guts to ‘out’ these guys. I’m posting a link to this article on my Twitter page, which will probably lose me some followers, but will gain me great satisfaction!

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:27:43 +0000

Great explanation of how a scam works. Thanks.

By: WebKarnage

WebKarnage — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:59:05 +0000

The percentage of people that follow me that I block is over 50%. This sort of thing is why. Why do I want loads of Twitter followers that happen to use a keyword in an irrelevant context or pick me up doing the same? I don’t as it’s rubbish.

Great article.

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:26:30 +0000

I was just doing some research into this. And I can now thank you for saving me the money. There always has to be that one rather large scam. I guess this is it for twitter. Thanks for the info. I will be linking to this for sure.

By: Detroit Joe

Detroit Joe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:46:49 +0000

I was blasted by links for the Twitter Traffic Machine after doing a Google search this morning. I knew it was a scam from the start, but was curious as to how this particular method worked. The lack of information (and the mountains of positive testimonials) on their site is surely a giveaway. In typical scammer fashion, I like how he also requires a name and email before the poor suckers who fall for it can move on to get additional ordering information. Hopefully everyone is supplying fake addresses!!!

@detroitj0e (that’s a zero in the joe)

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:22:05 +0000

Thank you so much for this info!!! I will be passing this on to everyone I know on Twitter.

By: Patrucj

Patrucj — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:47:48 +0000

Hey,
you just saved me 27 bucks! Thank you, Ashley.

By: persimew

persimew — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:38:10 +0000

I am glad I found you and checked this out. This video is getting more and more pushes on Twitter. I don’t really understand all this get rich quick without effort junk, I would simply like a few more hits on my sites and maybe a sale or two, so I am glad to see I am not alone. The latest nasty rash BTW is affiliate destruction. I think it has to do with hijacking rss blog feeds to misdirect sales away from other people’s pages? They do the work, some spammer gets the misdirected sale. Nasty…. I shall favourite this site. :)

By: Kristina Kaine

Kristina Kaine — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:02:54 +0000

Thank you so much for this expose Ashley – as if we don’t have enough spam in our lives. I did buy this product but did not fully implement it. I have to admit that I learnt a lot from it about twitter tools and for the most part I get targetted followers – haven’t sold one book yet though :(. Hopefully this will come as I send out more quality tweets – which I write personally BTW. Twitter has put me in touch with some lovely, helpful people.
Best wishes,
Kristina Kaine

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:34:47 +0000

Finally a reviewer who’s not trying to sell a product and make a commission. Thank GOD! Thank you for saving me $27.00

By: ProTwit

ProTwit — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:57:07 +0000

Hi Ashley,

Great post! It is time that someone finally outed those guys and I couldn’t agree with you more. I do however think that you can use auto DM’s in a tasteful manner and auto following software can be used to find users in your niche, but with all marketing tools there are users that will abuse them. But these guys are pure spammers and give the making money on twitter niche a bad rap. Just like blogging, there are legitimate ways to make money on twitter and ways to do it without being a complete spammer. I’m so sick of seeing there links everywhere, and even as a make money on twitter blogger I would never promote their system.

Kudos Ashley!

By: Kevin Blakeley

Kevin Blakeley — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:56:06 +0000

Is your view that any automated software is bad when it comes to managing followers on twitter? I know there are some packages out there that help find followers based on keywords, so you are at least getting your name out there in your niche. I think this could be a good approach on finding people that could be interested in your content.

By: George Samuels

George Samuels — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:56:15 +0000

Great post – helps us “genuine” people look out for virtual pests. Machines are tools, so we must not rely on it to do ALL our bidding. Karma will eventually kick back, in some form another, if you want to cheat life and just make money without doing any work.

Once again, great post :) Keep it up!

By: Corey Freeman

Corey Freeman — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:10:35 +0000

It seems like there are a ridiculous amount of twitter scams going around these days. This one is particularly tragic. You’d think by step three one of the members would say, “hey, this doesn’t look right.” If you’re not even using your twitter account to interact or market, why do you need it?

By: Upstarty

Upstarty — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:49:23 +0000

Great follow up to your MySpace post, Ashley.

With that post in mind, we see how people are poisoning a social networking platform. Enouraging spam, turning it into a mindless drone, promising a number of followers for a disinterested click … ugh.

Among all the social networking platforms that have come along, Twitter has something incredibly important – Charm.

It’s such a devalued attribute in these times. But I, a once Twitter hater, have come to enjoy Twitter. It’s not for any direct marketing purpose. I enjoy its charm of its limited character posts. It makes you think, while encouraging spontaneity, while being, well, damn cute.

If there is any marketing to be done on Twitter, it will be residual. As a marketer, I’m not interested in a disinterested click to my site. I want someone that wants to know more, needs to know more. Twitter provides that through the forgotten skill of charm.

As opposed to MySpace, though, it’s interesting to see that the poisoning is coming from its users and not management.

By: Kristoffer Nolgren

Kristoffer Nolgren — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:29:42 +0000

Great post it really gave me a bigger insight to twitterspam(twitter is not that big here in sweden yet, so i am not that informed about its mechanics. I would really appriciate if you put your entire posts in the news feed, because it would make it à lot easier to read it on My cellphone. also you would probably keep your redders longer and get more readers and traffic from services such as twingly.com