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ORIGINAL: ModeratorOne

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

*adores M1*

Yay! Mod Love for me!

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ORIGINAL: windchymes

I am not on Twitter, but when I joined Facebook, I was amazed at the number of "friends of friends of friends" that appeared for my consideration to add to my friends list. If you exchange an email from hotmail or gmail or yahoo, for example, with anyone who has exchanged an email with someone else who exchanged an email with some one who had one of the search words anywhere connected with them, then it might appear in your list of possible "friends", no matter how remote they might be.

There is actually someone in this thread who appeared on that possible friends list under their real name, and I recognized it because of the photo :) But, since I keep my facebook & collarme lives as separate as I can, I never acknowledged it. But's it's there.

Kinda like STD's.....like you're having sex with everyone your partner ever had sex with, as well as anyone THEY had sex with, and so on.....

Therefore, I don't find it surprising at all that Twitter could hook you up with someone who had, say, the word "fetish" connected in their profile that them were somehow connected to you. I mean, c'mon....."1goddess4life", and there's no connection with "fetish" anywhere anyhow??? Please. Something flagged you somewhere.

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ORIGINAL: 1Goddess4Life

Wow, talk about ignorance by some of you. I have worked in technology for 15 years. I KNOW what's possible and a lot of it is black hat. It's OK, wait 'til it happens to you.

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ORIGINAL: SylvereApLeanan

Since she's involved in marketing and PR, and M1 has stated the CM account follows people who are involved with marketing/PR, it's very likely that Twitter recommended her based on the interests listed in her Twitter profile.  The CM staff would have no way of knowing she was also a CM user who would feel her privacy was compromised by the follow. 
 
Of course, it's pretty silly to get upset because someone follows you.  Twitter is social media and often used by companies to build buzz around their products or services.  The whole point is to be seen and followed by as many people as possible.  Her business reputation will not be affected by who is following her, only the people she's following.  The fact that she's here screaming about it just proves she doesn't understand social media, which leads me to believe she either isn't really in marketing or isn't very good at it.

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ORIGINAL: ModeratorOne

The way Twitter works is that when you click 'follow' on someone it suggests other people who have similar profile descriptions you may be interested in following.

These are the serches we have recently done on twitter: Collarme, BDSM, Tech, San Jose, and Fetish. We had some Kinky marketing professionals come up, and we did follow them (to see who we are following please view our twitter account and click "following" on our page) and we think she was connected to someone who we followed as a result of our search and twitter recommended her. As we don't actually know who she is on twitter, we can't determine with any real accuracy which search result connected us to her.

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which leads me to believe she either isn't really in marketing or isn't very good at it.

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ORIGINAL: HannahLynHeather

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which leads me to believe she either isn't really in marketing or isn't very good at it.

i'm incline to the former. she said she's been in tech for 15 years so knows all about the secret ways these impossible things can be done, AND she said she's been in marketing for 25 years. that makes 40 years, not too fucking shabby for a 48 year old, eh?

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The fact that she's here screaming about it just proves she doesn't understand social media, which leads me to believe she either isn't really in marketing or isn't very good at it.

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze
you'd be amazed how many companies and PR people don't understand social media.