Quote from: W2014 on March 30, 2014, 10:45:41 PM

Quote from: Matt Y on March 30, 2014, 10:26:36 PM

The Twitter spambots which have historically posted positive news on Mastercoin (as well as many other projects, to be fair), are now posting links to bellebite2014 posts to disparage Counterparty: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3qxtbed5dggmwqd/Screenshot%202014-03-30%2015.09.35.png

A sample of the Mastercoin posts these accounts make: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pw89c9dyozvx1dj/Screenshot%202014-03-30%2015.24.41.png

I don't know who is in charge of these accounts or what they are hoping to accomplish, but linking to the biggest troll in this thread as a source of Counterparty news is hilarious.

Why do you call these "Mastercoin posts"? I see no connection to the developers or foundation. Perhaps I'm missing something.

I have filters set up for "Mastercoin" and "Counterparty", so I always see the spambots posting positive stuff about Mastercoin, although they do post on a number of topics in a positive manner, which I mentioned.

What I called "Mastercoin posts" were posts that showed a sample of the posts about Mastercoin that those accounts made. I did not infer anything other than "this is a sample of a positive post about Mastercoin made by these spambot accounts". I wanted to show that the accounts have a dog in the game, so to speak, when it comes to second generation projects.

I highly doubt the developers of Mastercoin or members of the Mastercoin Foundation are involved with these Twitter accounts. Why would someone smart enough to develop something like Mastercoin, or to hold a position within the Mastercoin Foundation, make 20+ Twitter accounts and have them all post the same things to 80 followers? It just makes no sense. Not only is this activity stupid, there are certainly many other more effective ways to increase the visibility of a project.

It's much more likely that whoever owns these accounts is a random person who has invested in Mastercoin and not Counterparty, or has something against Counterparty, or has no investment in either project, but posts something from our biggest troll while positively promoting other projects in the same space for a reason that is still unknown.

Looking at the accounts further, it appears likely that each one was created to hype a specific coin or two, but they cross post everything to all accounts.

https://twitter.com/MommaCrypto
https://twitter.com/DaddyCrypto
https://twitter.com/RaymondCrypto

Perhaps this is a service of some kind, or, more likely, an active altcoin trader attempting to hype stuff that he has investments in.

To the owner of those accounts: Your links are not working, you need to change your link shortening service.