I always try to respond to my DMs (direct messages) on Twitter. It's just that aspect of my personality strongly influenced by my southern hospitality driven upbringing. So, I click on the link and arrive at this dark and quite sinister looking online game. You select the type "mobster" you want to be and garner points or move up a level based on the different jobs you carry out. Totally boring. However, I'm satisfied because I've done what I set out to do - responded to a tweet sent by a following friend.
It wasn't until last week that I realized once you join your fellow tweeter's mafia family the site starts sending out spam tweets to your followers. Not cool. I received a message from a follower expressing his distaste for spam tweets. I wasn't sure what he was talking about so I took a look at my recent tweets. And low and behold I (someone...thanks spam) had sent a tweet from "me" earlier that day about joining my mafia family.
I headed over to the site and cancelled my membership which will prevent any further annoying tweets. I enjoy Twitter. It's a great way to get acquainted with other people online, share information, grow your website following - it's social media at it's best. What I don't like is the spam or being indirectly associated with sending spam. Have you been hit by the Twitter Mafia yet?
