Tweet Pro: No Way, Unless You Are Planning To Spam

I stumbled across Cesar Serna’s Tweet Pro, thanks to Rhea Drysdale, and even before I read her insightful review I clicked over to the website and saw this:

Tweet Pro for Twitter - Find Follow and Add Friends on Twitter, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

Hmmm. Cash up front, $9.95 for one day access? Multiple Twitter accounts? Obviously for spammers.

I saw that it is Windows only so, I passed on fooling with it.

Rhea twigged to the spamology latent in the product:

I love that I can spam the crap out of Twitter with an unlimited amount of accounts. The average user only needs one account, maybe two, one for their personal account and one for their crochet club. Conversely, an “advanced user” needs thousands to stay in touch with their BFF’s! This is perfect for snake oil salesmen… or hardworking white hats that like to maintain a dozen or so accounts for their honest products.

Bizarrely, Rhea goes on to recommend the tool for SEO weenies, PR professionals, industry experts, or lonely folks: she might have been kidding on the last, but she seems serious about the others.

I grant that a company might want to track mentions of its products, or to find influencers, but this combination of features is suspicious.

Personally, I think Twitter should lock their API to tools like this. It’s like an automatic weapon: it has only one use and it isn’t home protection. And Rhea, I don’t care how much the UI glistens (strangely a gun metal gray), this junk won’t fly.