Andrew Baron today made a solemn promise on a stack of Bibles - he’ll never ever sell his Twitter account on eBay ever again.
Who is Andrew? He’s the creator of Rocketboom and often a very vocal critic of others in the podcast and Web 2.0 world who a a couple weeks ago decided to sell his Twitter account on eBay to the highest bidder, and then somewhere had an attack of conscience and pulled the auction. As Sean said in his coverage the other day:
The Craigslist offer has also been pulled now, and it seems Mr. Baron has canceled both of them because, as he said in an interview, he was told the bidders could “all (be) spam marketers, people who will do anything just to get their name out there, people who don’t understand Web 2.0 and blogging.”
I, like many of you, find it hard to believe that anyone is unaware of the menace of spammers, and that they may try to take a shortcut towards getting a foothold in the market and a potential direct line to people’s mobile inboxes.
As I noted on our last episode of Elite Tech News, though, while the first Twitter account sale might fetch a pretty penny, but as soon as the new ill-intentioned spammer got a hold of it, statistics show from the RU4Real study, that most folks would instantly unsubscribe, giving the Twitter account a remarkably short shelf life.
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Andrew Baron承诺绝不让垃圾邮件传播者骚扰你
Andrew Baron今天在一叠圣经前作出郑重的承诺--他将永不会再次出售其在易趣网上的Twitter帐户。
Andrew是什么人呢？他是的Rocketboom创立者，并经常在播客和Web2.0世界里大声的批评他人。几周以前，他决定把其在易趣网上的Twitter帐户出售给出价最高的竞标者，紧接着又在某处受到良心的谴责而停止了这场拍卖会。就像Sean在他改天的报道中说的那样：
Craigslist(一个免费发布和共享信息的网站)的开价现在也遭到了拒绝，看起来好象Baron先生已经把它们都取消了，就像他在一个采访里说的那样，他被告知竞标者可能“都是些发送垃圾邮件来做广告的人，不惜代价要让别人在那里看到他们名字的人，根本不理解Web2.0和博客的人。”
我就像你们中的很多人一样，感到很难相信有人对垃圾邮件传播者的威胁毫无认识，这些传播者或许会尝试通过捷径以在市场占据一席之地，并获得到达人们移动收件箱的潜在直接路线。
我注意到在我们精英技术新闻的上一节中，尽管第一个Twitter帐户的销售获得了不斐的利润，但是一旦这些恶意的传播者门获得了这个帐户，来自RU4Real研究的统计数据显示，大部分的用户会立即停止订购，让Twitter帐户的有效生命周期大幅缩短。
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