what a shame: times.co.uk caught spamming social sites
it’s not a shame that the offender was caught, but a damn shame that such a well-respected institution has to go through this.
working on behalf of the times, a sitelynx employee posted thousands of links to community and social news websites, including mahalo, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, metafilter, yahoo! answers, ma.gnolia, and netscape’s propeller. his actions were done without any disclosure of his affiliation to sitelynx or The Times and were, in some cases, posted under the assumed identity of his wife.
we’ve already permanently banned the offending account at propeller. if you are friends with the offending accounts on any of the networks, please report them as soon as possible and make sure that they are banned.
Technorati Tags: social media, spam, times, mahalo, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, metafilter, yahoo answers, ma.gnolia, propeller
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January 31st, 2008 at 1:55 am
Ouch how’s that for some bad publicity.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Lol, quite serious proportions. Why would an institution like the Times would risk bans on social media sites! Time to use some SERM :-p
January 31st, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Wow, you think his wife has issues with this employee jacking her identity. I don’t think I’d be pleased if my wife was using my name like that!
February 5th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Ha that’s rough but they’ll be relatively unaffected by the publicity, I think. Every great media institution, including many newspapers, has had some bad publicity like this or plagiarism or something similar. It’s the person’s idiocy, not the paper’s.