Free Twitter Software Craze, Are You Joining?
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I‘ve been on Twitter for only a few months and it’s quite surprising how Twitter tremendously exhibits so much influence on people in all facets of microblogging. Tweets changing real time like almost every second.
But in all honesty, this social media platform doesn’t really give much traffic to this blog than what I have expected. In fact, in the last few weeks that I’ve tweeted, just a tiny fraction of my weekly visitors come from
Tweeter and majority of those are not from my followers. Meaning, I only get those few traffic when I do some Twitter-searching for people needing some help in some special topics.
I couldn’t find a compelling reason I should admire getting a lot of followers. If those “followers” are quality followers and could become future clients, then why not. Thanks for the follow, that’s all I can say. It simply makes me
happy when somebody follows my updates even though I really don’t tweet a lot. It somehow gives me an idea that I’m making some sense. My Twitter presence is also a test if Twitter, like some people say is really a powerful social media platform. I know what you’re thinking. Twitter fanatics would say, that I still have a lot to learn to make the most of my Twitter presence. Perhaps.
But one other reason why I brought up this topic is this “Free Twitter Software” craze going on now. Left and right re-tweeting of this fancy software. My question is this, why do I have to use this software? Can somebody tell me? Maybe I’m not really interested but let me tell you my reason.
Most of you might have known the Twitter phishing attacks that happened weeks back when prominent personalities like Britney Spears and Barack Obama’s accounts among others got hacked. I’m not going to dig into details but this adds to my case.
Secondly, there was one time when I’ve read some updates from the people I follow. I came across this re-tweet that mentioned about a “Free Twitter Software” and to my curiosity, I’ve opened the link and it brought me to a page where there is this guy (not the one shown on the screen shot) talking on the video and is bragging about the power of getting thousands of followers in just one Tweet. Yes. One click of a button and it spreads like virus!
Free Twitter Software
Sounds amazing? But, here’s the catch. The guy on the said video requires that anybody wanting to have that special piece of software (the Free Twitter software) must type-in their username and password and follow these guys claiming themselves to be its inventor. Well, wait a minute. I would have to give my username and password and follow these guys just to get this software? I thought it was “free”. If I were you, would you give these information just to get that software?
My Software Critics Community Toolbar is free, safe, private and is duly certified by TRUSTe and doesn’t need you to give any information about yourself not even your email!
It’s too risky and I’m not going to jeopardize my security in place of a software that doesn’t prove any claims. Free software is freely distributable although some websites may ask for an email address to give you the download link but this Free Twitter Software goes beyond that! An account username and password in exchange? Woah! Let me give it a second thought.
I never downloaded this software at all for fear of my account security. I’m not a big personality. Just a minute unidentifiable, and almost invisible dot on a map but this is me. If you are reading this and have downloaded the software, you might want to share to me and to everyone else your experience. You might as well want to shed light on this. The comment section below is open.
The guy on the video screen shot is not the same guy I am referring to in the post. This is the second time I saw this kind of video. There are some similarities though with the format of the sign-up form on its page and the terms used by the speaker in referring to this free software. The older versions of the video that I’ve seen a few weeks ago(not the same guy shown from the screen shot above) states the idea behind the software differently in a quite alarming manner. The older video ( I was referring to) doesn’t show on the page of mytweetelite.com.
There might be some differences with the way the idea is conveyed behind the software but why do they have to require some sensitive information when in fact most of the other free Tweeter tools available on the internet is freely downloadable?
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