Pinterest is the new social media website. It is a website where you have your own "pinboard" where you can save your favorite pictures. You log onto the site and it has tons of pictures organized by type: food, drinks, weddings, etc (talk about addicting! Myself and almost all other woman in the world can sit on Pinterest for hours at a time!) It is the best social media website right now...if I do say so myself!
After reading an article on Mashable.com I foudn that pinterest is a great way for companies to get their name out there and get items sold! "Did this Pinterest Spammer make $30,000 a month?" was one of the most interesting articles I have read about pinterest.
A gentleman named "steve" pins Amazon products and makes close to $1,000 per month!! (Sounds like a great job if anyone is looking for a job!) Steve has thousands of spambots that go and pin all over the website. Steve states that this is "by far the easiest website to spam right now". Which does scare me and I am sure many others that Pinterest is so vonerable on the web right now. Pinterest has acknowledge this and said " As a growing service, Pinterest is not immune to challenges faced by sites across the web, including spam. However, it is a tremendous priority for us to quickly address them. Our engineers are actively working to manage issues as they arise and are revisiting the nature of public feeds on the site to make it harder for fake or harmful content to get into them."
Hopefully Pinterest clears up any issues found, but until then hats off to Steve for making tons of money using the website!
Resohttp://mashable.com/2012/03/28/pinterest-amazon-spam/urces:
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