How Pinterest spammer 'Steve' reaps thousands of dollars a day
 

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/27/29...spam-bot-steve

Steve says that he has no real "nine to five job," and that his single source of income is online earnings ? despite claiming to have three associate degrees in aviation and an FCC license. But it's not surprising that he's eschewing a traditional means of making a living, since he says that for the past two weeks he's made over $1,000 a day, and expects to earn between $2,000 and $2,500 a day by next week. With Steve's Pinterest success now open for the world to see, it's possible that the popular network will need to ramp up efforts to crack down on spam ? Steve says that it's "by far the easiest social network to spam right now," and "quite possibly the easiest ever to spam."

Nice change!

Sucks for people who bought the bots.

I ain't pinterested ...

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This is fake. Don't you read reddit?

what is fake? that people spam pinterest?

No people spam pinterest, no doubt.

But this dude came out saying that he just made most of it up.

outch.... wonder who looks like the idiot now...

yeah he got scared.

na, you just got caught being an idiot.:thumbsup

stuff it fatty.

The spammer is real.

I requested a pinterest invite 3 months ago and never got one. What's the deal with that?

http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/ui...est%20spam.jpg

http://dailydot.s3.amazonaws.com/cac...6fcd44850b.jpg

ADG

aweeee- someone doesn't like the truth........

Lots and lots of hype and i know what i'm talking about.

2cents...

It was a weak attempt at backtracking because he realized he had just given away his method.

Invite Sent! :thumbsup

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This could be the fastest moving thread of the day.

Seems plausible.

oh yeah i sure admire that hard work, nothing better than spammers making money

what a fool, assuming he isn't full of shit, when you are making decent $$ like that you stfu and milk it as long as you can... :2 cents:

Yeah, he really shit the bed.

Just another person making more money than he should without having an actual skill. But I guess spamming is a skill.

QFT

:thumbsup

Making money with Pinterest isn't any secret and the fact that one person lied about it doesn't mean it's impossible to do..

thanks...

he better live it up, they will cut that out pretty quickly IMO

that's how i read it. when you read the original article they were backtracing spam accounts until they found someone to talk.