Has Identi.ca Found A Way To Flood TechCrunch With Links To Its Site?
on Jul 14, 2009 - 6:25 PM PSTI don’t usually write posts like this. I do interviews with online entrepreneurs.
But I thought someone here might know the answer to this question. Lately, when I go to TechCrunch and other sites, I see meaningless links to posts on Identi.ca. The site is similar to Twitter and it seems that every time someone uses it to link to a TechCrunch article, it shows up as a blog response.
Did Identi.ca find a way to flood blogs like TechCrunch with links back to its site?
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July 15th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Those are trackbacks. Usually they are used blog-to-blog to see who is talking about your posts in their own blogs, it looks like identi.ca is using them to send out microblogs as well.
July 15th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Yeah. Imagine if Delicious did that. Or if Twitter did that every time
there's a tweet.
Trackbacks clearly aren't meant for those kinds of links.
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July 24th, 2009 at 9:05 am
They're probably pinging all the blogging directories. Clever idea, but it almost looks like spam…
July 24th, 2009 at 9:34 am
That's what I was thinking. I'm surprised they're not getting called out on
it.
July 24th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
They're probably pinging all the blogging directories. Clever idea, but it almost looks like spam…
July 24th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
That's what I was thinking. I'm surprised they're not getting called out on
it.