I've been watching this video over and over again while trying to understand what these kind of "magic apps" are doing to Twitter. The only conclusion I came up with is that it's killing Twitter slowly now, fast in the near future.

The Traffic Machine service in the video above offers you more targeted followers to your brand. Now, your brand.. what that means? As far as I see it, everyone can be a brand today, and with a push of this service you won't have to do much in order to drive traffic to your site/blog/any other page you have on the web. Yes, I hear you: free traffic, what's your problem? Well, my problem is that sooner or later Twitter will become a spam swamp with no communication value. How can you have any communication or start a conversation when you follow thousand of people? (unless you're Scoble, you can't).

The other problem is the recognition Twitter community gives those people. Do they really worth the fame just because they use some system to generate more followers? What's next? Find one of these fake power users and ask them to submit your blog post URL? It's probably been done already.

In my opinion individual people who uses this service (or any other service alike) are just ones that manipulate twitter to gain more traffic no matter what content they submit their. Someone called it a crappy spam of a new generation, I agree.

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