4Chan's Plan to Game Twitter (The Race to 1 Million)

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by calvin • 17 years ago

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lpgauth• 17 years ago

Script used - http://ampaste.net/mbce6473

tdavis• 17 years ago

The joke's on everybody: Spammers surpassed the mark for 1 million recipients of useless information years ago! They make up 95% of e-mail now; nobody can beat that!

Still, I hope 4Chan wins. Just to piss off everybody who somehow thinks this matters.

Batsu• 17 years ago

I agree. I completely hate the fact that having one million followers is considered main stream news somehow.

greyman• 17 years ago

I see CNN and Kutcher already got 1M followers.

falsestprophet• 17 years ago

It costs about $1000 to have 1,000,000 CAPTCHAs solved by hand. They could ask for donations or just use stolen credit card numbers to pay the Indians.

mooted• 17 years ago

Indians?

potatolicious• 17 years ago

Probably the cheapest way to crack captchas manually... I hate to generalize, but any idiot can find willing foreign labour (and maybe even some domestic?) to crack captchas on sites like elance.

windsurfer• 17 years ago

CNN, Kutcher, 4Chan. The race to be the biggest twit.

4Chan's Plan to Game Twitter (The Race to 1 Million)

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