POSTED BY

Rob Beschizza

AT 5:13 AM
Monday July 27, 2009

Gizmodo

at&t • matt buchanan

AT&T astroturfers invade twitter, whine about gadget blogger

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Awe-inspiring stuff! I'm sure Matt will cope.

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8 Comments

belgium

#1 – 7:06 AM July 27, 2009

What the hell is wrong with AT&T today, first they attack 4Chan and now the Gawker network.

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matt buchanan

#2 – 7:11 AM July 27, 2009

I got two more this morning! Bizarre. I've heard it might be spambots regurgitating a legitimate tweet directed at me in between pleas to check out their hot XXX profile.

circa86

#3 – 12:50 PM July 27, 2009

? Is this interesting? The only thing Matt has posted in the past month has to do with AT&T being horrible and a Foxcon employee killing himself, all poorly written with little to no actual valuable information.

Anonymous Anonymous

#4 – 1:38 PM July 27, 2009

Kinda tired of @mattbuchanan always dissing on ... oh, wait a minute, wrong site.

chroma

#5 – 2:00 PM July 27, 2009

Fake astroturf designed to bring publicity for Gizmodo? Somebody's bound to try it eventually.

Rob Beschizza

#6 – 5:21 AM July 28, 2009

That would be Mattroturfing, Chroma!

Chris L.

#7 – 11:31 AM July 28, 2009

This sort of thing has actually been making the rounds on Twitter. It hit the #dnd (Dungeons & Dragons) hashtag last week. What happens is that the pornspambabebots check hot trending topics, grab a random post on that topic and then retweet it on all their various accounts. What happened here was some AT&T shill posted the original message when AT&T was a trending topic, and the pornspambabebots took over from there.

Kyle

#8 – 8:06 AM July 29, 2009

I do have to admit that, although I feel for Matt and the annoyance that it causes him, it's pretty intriguing how these spambots are working now. Even automated accounts trying to keylog people on various forums (especially wow forums) have become all-the-more tricky. They used to be about satellites catching naked women and now they pertain to the game and lack the various typos once associated.

These spambots (and other various malicious automated software) are becoming tricky, I tell you!