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New York Comic-Con hijacks attendees' Twitter accounts to send out shilling tweets

Attendees at New York Comic-Con were required to register their new, RFID-bugged badges online, in a process that encouraged them to link them to their Twitter accounts. Little did they suspect that NYCC would use their signups to send tweets from attendees’ Twitter accounts, in a loose, conversational style (“So much pop culture to digest! Can’t. handle. the. awesome.”), linking back to NYCC’s website, without any indication that they were spam. I’m reasonably certain that the fine-print on the NYCC signup gave them permission to do this stupid thing, and I’m also certain that almost no one read the fine-print, and that rather a large number of attendees objected strenuously to having their Twitter accounts used to shill for a service that they were already paying a large sum to enjoy.

1 <3 #NYCC http://t.co/ykhDvP1SLj

— Chelsea Stark (@chelseabot) October 10, 2013

New York Comic Con Tweets From Attendees’ Accounts Without Permission

(via Wil Wheaton)

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