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Twitter has its fair portion of spammers, as well as dissimilar on Facebook, you lot don't involve whatever sort of usual connecter amongst person to tag them, you lot only involve their handle. So, imagine for a minute that you lot log into your Twitter, alone to met amongst a nice, shapely mound of notifications proverb that you've been tagged yesteryear a procession of automated accounts, all vying to straight your attending to about service, trial or production which you lot convey no involvement in.
Nauseating, isn't it? Well it doesn't halt there. This opens upwards a whole make of increasingly grim possibilities, the worst of which is the persuasion that nosotros mightiness start seeing a sort of 'chain mail' civilization prepare on Twitter.
On Facebook, all those 'share or u choke at midnight tomoz' posts are fairly slow to ignore, provided you lot aren't ane of the idiots who did the sharing. With this, you'll hold upwards notified every fourth dimension person uses your handle, fifty-fifty though it'll belike hold upwards ane of virtually 50. Once people start realising that they tin tag people en-masse, things volition presently instruct chaotic.
When this travel apparent, Twitter may goal upwards scrambling to innovate novel restrictions to halt people from abusing this newfound ability, but it's a rattling nearsighted motion on their part. Brands blanket portion content all the time, as well as whatever social media worth their tabular array salt knows that @ tagging gets way ameliorate results than hashtagging. If you lot travel on to hold upwards on the radar of whatever branded Twitter accounts, prepare to hold upwards overwhelmed.