Twitter Updates for 2007-07-09

Posted by on July 9th, 2007 | Categorized as Underachiever

  • SQUIDOO SLAP!!! NEWSFLASH!!!EDGE / SET MEMBERS STAND BY FOR DETAILS OF THIS BREAKING STORY! #
  • WE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT SQUIDOO SLAP IS REAL. AND FOR A REASON THAT WILL AMAZE YOU! TUBBYNERD BLOg post to come shortly #
  • Dan Raine and I will be recording a special podcast on squidoo slap tonight UK time. Another “Black Swan” event! #
  • On the phone with Dan Raine recording Squidoo Slap - The Facts And The Fallout - And What you should do #

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3 Responses to “Twitter Updates for 2007-07-09”

  1. Buck Nemith says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 10:51 am

    Hi Ed,

    We were getting ready to pull the trigger on ordering SET. How can we get the info you’re preparing on the recent slap so we can figure it into our decision?

    Thanks,

    Buck

  2. Mark Attwood says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 3:03 pm

    Welcome to England Ed - thanks for the call with Dan - very useful stuff

  3. Marco says:
    July 12th, 2007 at 7:28 am

    Hey Ed, Just got an email from Squidoo that may reveal the truth about the slap… and it doesn’t seem like your conspiracy theory involving eBay had anything to do about it. Here’s what Seth had to say:

    Last week, a few dozen spammers exploited Squidoo and drove the rest of the Web crazy. They spammed tens of thousands of blogs and built thousands of worthless lenses, violating our Terms of Service with reckless abandon. One spammer in La Paz, Bolivia built more than 400 lenses in one day on exactly the same topic. Sheesh.

    Since then, search traffic to Squidoo was also impacted, as was our ability to post on blog comments or some social networking sites.

    Here’s the great news: thanks to terrific work by Gil, Corey and Megan, we’ve eliminated the tools that bad actors used to damage the rest of us. We’ve also added a squadron of people who hand review lenses, and we’ve made it easier for you (and anyone else) to report spam.

    I’m confident that as the web sees that the problem is solved, we’ll be back on track, and searchers online will continue to discover your good lenses.

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