TweetBuffet is a site designed to get you followers, whether they are bots, fake accounts or who knows what. The help is limited and the FAQ is dismal, but let’s look anyway.
The main idea seems to be that you sign up, follow others and the service gets others that sign up to follow you. No one cares what you tweet about, how often, what topics or if you do at all. Just a number driver. The Terms of Service were quite interesting:
Terms and Conditions of Use
IMPORTANT: YOU MUST FOLLOW OTHERS TO GET FOLLOWERS. USERS WHO DO NOT FOLLOW ANYONE ARE AUTOMATICALLY REMOVED FROM THE BUFFET.
There is a VIP service, paid, that will guarantee new followers each day. To get followers yourself, you have to log in and follow all the VIP people plus 20 more. From there I am not sure how you get followed back.
They also kindly state that they do request your password and may use it, at their leisure and discretion apparently, to send tweets about their service. Without your control.
Need I even say more? Don’t eat here for fear of tweet poisoning.
Filed under: Follower Management , follower, followers
I can’t understand why people do this kind of stuff! We all see the results in our stream and aren’t most of us annoyed at it? Thanks for pointing out the pointlessness of this particular “service”!