Twitter friend fail

by E.P. on June 17, 2009

Over the past week, I’ve received a lot of interesting Twitter follower requests.

The first one that was a little odd?

Apparently, I tweet about my horrible allergies so much that AllergiesInfo wants to be my friend? Do they need a poster child or something? FAIL.

And then I got the following request yesterday…

Horny Hottie? Seriously? Who does that? Do I LOOK like a person who wants to be following someone who calls themselves a horny hottie? No, no, no.

Colossal FAIL.

These Twitter spammers, they’re getting interesting, folks.

{ 22 comments }

Liam June 17, 2009 at 10:36 am: I had Horny Hottie try to follow me too… wtf?
MinD June 17, 2009 at 10:42 am: Horny Hottie tried to follow the Tribune. I deleted that one damn fast!
Nora June 17, 2009 at 11:02 am: Well I feel slightly left out because Horny Hottie did NOT try to follow me. Not that I would have let him, but still.. it’s the principle =)

Very interesting indeed.
I wonder what programs these folks use to track down their “target,” followers.
Elizabeth June 17, 2009 at 11:14 am: Yes! Horny Hottie tried to follow me too! I get the most random people too–the Vegas tourism board?
Liam June 17, 2009 at 11:54 am: I got the Atlanta Airport tried to follow me once… haven’t mentioned anything remotely close to Atlanta ever in my tweets…
Lys June 17, 2009 at 11:56 am: i’ve had 6 or 7 horny hotties and a whole bunch of people with random letters and numbers as their name and they all offered the same thing: sexy vids and chats online!!!

yeah, i blocked them all. talk about obnoxious.
Hilary June 17, 2009 at 12:11 pm: Much agreed! Horny Hottie was following me as well, for about one minute until I cut them off. Some interesting ones of late… Bank Freedom (??), LivingLifeBoomerStyl, and Cornhole All-Stars. Craziness! I even deleted someone and they followed me again the next day. Strange!
erin June 17, 2009 at 12:14 pm: nora- i’m with you… i feel so insulted that horny hottie isn’t interested in me! lol jk
steph anne June 17, 2009 at 1:11 pm: i find them extremely annoying. i’ve blocked all of them. do they really think people are going to follow them back?
Kyla Roma June 17, 2009 at 1:21 pm: lol That’s too funny! I knew your allergies were bad, but… ; )

Twitter fail indeed! Next you know Lucy Belle will be requesting to follow you!
Lily June 17, 2009 at 3:27 pm: I’ve had some random ones lately based on things I tweeted. WEIRD.
Phil June 17, 2009 at 3:41 pm: A bunch of those are set to follow twitter for keywords. I once twittered about seeing a tattoo and got two tattoo parlors to follow me as a result. Though now, of course, I anxiously await the “horny hottie” to start following me, too.
sleepyjane June 18, 2009 at 2:05 am: I block them. Purely on principle.
Marjolein June 18, 2009 at 5:29 am: I got a request from horny hottie too. I block people like that.
ashley.star June 18, 2009 at 8:36 am: Haha.

I was insulted by Menopause and Over40 followers.

Oh, Twitter.
Pam June 18, 2009 at 1:55 pm: I think Horny Hottie has tried to get with everyone. What a hoe. Lol!
Reeder's Corner June 18, 2009 at 3:41 pm: Being new to Twitter is surreal because you’re right, you get LOT of weird people following you… eekk
AuburnKat June 18, 2009 at 3:59 pm: I don’t ever really get any weird requests on Twitter…thankfully!
Jessica June 18, 2009 at 8:54 pm: Oh Hornie Hottie. AKA college. Memories. You know you love it
Cee June 19, 2009 at 3:21 pm: I think Horny Hottie tried following me too… not sure how b/c I don’t typically Tweet about sex or being horny. LOL
Susan June 20, 2009 at 9:36 am: Block is such a good function on Twitter.
La Petite Belle June 22, 2009 at 9:23 am: that’s hilarious.