Off topic: web page duplication and twitter manipulation

[Garson O'Toole]

Thanks for your informative response Lynne Murphy. Here are some
details to help further explain what happened. On August 25 I posted
my exploration of the amusing quotation "Creative Minds Are Rarely
Tidy; here is a link:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/25/creative-minds/

The post was 920 words long and the full text was duplicated on a
website that uses a template for a pseudo-publication called "cpa
review". The content was copied but not the pictures or formatting.
The "cpa review" website appears to be a conglomeration of duplicated
data. I would guess that it has been constructed by an automated
process that uses keyword searches to select pages to copy.

Below is the link, but I would not recommend visiting this type of
website unless you are surfing in a defensive mode with a plug-in like
"No script".

http://www.cpareviews.info/creative-minds-are-rarely-tidy-quote-investigator.html

Further below are a group of tweets that appeared on August 26. The
bit.ly link in the tweets points to the webpage on the cpareviews.info
website. The names of the tweeters look like they might have been
constructed using a formal grammar. This manipulation of twitter is
new to me, but different forms of twitter spam have existed for a few
years now.

I only started to monitor twitter when I noticed incoming traffic. A
reporter from ABC News and one from the Wall Street Journal tweeted
links to my blog. The search facility provided by twitter is somewhat
clever. It automatically expands shortlinks so you can search inside
them for web addresses

http://twitter.com/#!/search-home

Here are the fake twitterers: fritterers?
(PCWorld on Feb 15, 2009 gave "Phweeters (phony tweeters)")

Jonahtanaln Jonahtan Mcgaha
Creative Minds Are Rarely Tidy Quote Investigator bit.ly/r6I4Xz
accountant new york ;P
26 Aug

Ery Dwelley
Erybwa Ery Dwelley
;) bit.ly/r6I4Xz Creative Minds Are Rarely Tidy Quote Investigator
accountant new york
26 Aug

Oisseau Herlocker
Oisseautpl Oisseau Herlocker
bit.ly/r6I4Xz :O accountant new york Creative Minds Are Rarely Tidy
Quote Investigator
26 Aug

Yeritza Glendenning
Yeritzapov Yeritza Glendenning
accountant new york bit.ly/r6I4Xz Creative Minds Are Rarely Tidy Quote
Investigator
26 Aug

Fredy Bowne
Fredyqec Fredy Bowne
bit.ly/r6I4Xz :P accountant new york Creative Minds Are Rarely Tidy
Quote Investigator
26 Aug

Lourdes Kratzke
Lourdeskja Lourdes Kratzke
Creative Minds Are Rarely Tidy Quote Investigator . accountant new
york bit.ly/r6I4Xz
26 Aug

Jhoana Stanback
Jhoanasqi Jhoana Stanback
bit.ly/r6I4Xz ;O accountant new york Creative Minds Are Rarely Tidy
Quote Investigator
26 Aug

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