Using Twitter-search (with RSS feed to my "blog" reader) I can follow, read and interact on questions/news about some software programs I use myself and of which I'm a big fan: Typepad, ScreenSteps and of course AWeber.
So once a day I go to my reader and read all the relevant tweets.
Strange and weird things can appear - or so I thought the first time when I kept reading the same tweets over and over again but by different "people":
Cheesers
You notice something?
And this one comes up frequently too:
You notice something?
Besides the exact same tweeted text they all seem to have numbers in their twitter profile name. When you check their profile 9 times out of 10 you will see something likes this:
I've started to call them "Cheesers" - because what they do IMHO is rather cheesy:
"Trying too hard, unsubtle, and inauthentic.
Specifically that which is unsubtle or inauthentic in its way of trying to elicit a certain response from a viewer, listener, audience, etc."
What's the use of this? Why would you 'hackle' a excellent software program which has an excellent customer support this way? I "smell" a competitor, do you?
Then there is a whole different group of twitters:
Cheaters
Again the twitter profile name is a combination of name and numbers (and none of them follow anyone - only have a number of no doubt automated followers).
These tweets seem to direct you to a tutorial on how to build/utilise an AWeber web form to grow your email list.
Only, when you follow the link you always end up on the same website which promotes completely the opposite practice of permission marketing AWeber is so well known for: Blasting - in this case not email blasting but blasting links and content on twitter, facebook and many more social media platforms.
SocialBlaster
If this company is so successful, why do they need to "piggyback" on the fame of another company that promotes exactly the opposite?
Shame on them. We can do without cheesers and cheaters - what on earth is Social about them?
(Rant over)
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