The 33 keywords of death on Twitter

December 31, 2010

Hey all!

Just for fun, I will divert from technical blogging to celebrate the end of 2010 with a bit of humor.

I've done some cleanup today on my main twitter account because of huge amounts of spam on my timeline. While removing accounts I came accross a very interesting pattern of keywords that used to show up on these spammer accounts descriptions.

Some of them are absolutely ludicrous, such as the infopreneur, the business ninja or the mentalist. I tend to believe that people who put that in their descriptions are either the next generation of web 2.0 egomaniac crooks or totally desperate cases.

Father of 5, marketeer, strategist and world-known syndicator. Marketing coach and success mentor.

I've had to laugh and take the time to look at the profile of a 14 years old entrepreneur. Do these guys use a description generator?

That's rather ~~risible~~ sad to see how a word has become mutilated by a generation of people enslaved by social media. An entrepreneur, to quote wikipedia, is in its original sense "one who undertakes an enterprise, especially a contractor, acting as intermediatory between capital and labour". There's a big difference between undertaking an enterprise and having a robot post automated links on your twitter stream, making a page with a youtube video where you explain how to do business and how you sit at home and make 1000$ a week. Still the same kind of crap you could find in your local newspaper or on the Reader's Digest, but 2.0 enabled.

Rants aside, here's the list. Some of these words can (and often are) combined together. Enjoy!

affiliate
cash
coach
entrepreneur
entrepreneurial
fitness
foreclosure
forex
guru
health
idea
income
infopreneur
junkie
listing
loan
marketeer
marketing
mentalist
mentor
mlm
money
mortgage
ninja
nutrition
seo
strategist
success
syndicator
tips
traffic
trainer
wholesaler