MySpaCe - can-spam rebuttle
I’ve not used myspace other than for a real profile for one of my political blogs. It just seemed the right place for it… Alas the song I had in mind never happened and so the blog died… I have been adding videos of late for my problem and that seems to be working quite well…
But as you know lots of people have been creating spam profiles.
In case you didn’t know the plan of attack was easy. Upload a pretty girl photo to a fake profile. Run a whore script to gather friends and if the photo is really HOT then you will get a lot of requests too. Once you have a good list then you can SPAM away.
There are two methods.
a) Send out a bulletin to all your friends in one hit - if done right you get instant traffic. Lots of people have many many accounts with 100k of people. I always wondered how many of those were real 
b) Comment spam your friends - create long term backlinks and some traffic if used right.
The system allowed up to 50 commenst a day - thats 50 back links a day - some on high PR sites….
OK I hear you say great how do I do that - NOOOO - its spam - you know SPAM - the stuff we spend hours deleting a day from our email, forums and blogs. Don’t do it….
Bulletins and messages are considered electronic messages (i.e the same as e-mails), they all fall under the CAN-SPAM act and you are spamming. Yes spamming. The Porn sites and gaming sites have been flooding MYSPACE with complete rubbish - so have the new flocks of IM spammers thinking they have found the next big thing.
It seems that People that sent unsolicited messages and that did not identify themselves as advertisements are brekaing CAN-SPAM rules. Yes all those guys selling you automated programs (”crawlers”) to gather address have found they are against the CAN-SPAM rules too!
Insider reports say they are now getting targeted by MySpace and that maybe MYSPACE will be getting the courts to look at some of the bigger sites. As so many were exploiting the network (MySpace) by sending out mass private messages (pms) and some were getting 1000s of friends by posting spam in the form of hot looking girls - MYSPACE started to fill up with crud pretty quick and MYSPACE got p*ssed off for some reason.
A loophole in the commenting system of Myspace profiles allowed users to spam 50+ comments on a friend’s profile with a little help from a php application. Also an online program that can spam 100+ messages to anyone’s Myspace inbox was also created.
Poker Gaming sites/Porn Sites were posting hot chicks up and getting 1000s of people to become their friends. Their pagerank/traffic went through the roof, and they benefit from the oodles of PR kudos and traffic by having the MYSPACE links. Crazy crazy stuff… who wants to think they have a hot chick as their friend to only find out its a middle aged guy in boxer shorts selling penis extendors for a living…
As MySpace grows I would be careful trying to play them. A few people have been milking MySpace and the ebooks and other rubbish products are hitting the forums - Buyer beware. Ok the PR of some pages are high, the traffic volume is great although the traffic is really hard to convert.
Many of the real profiles are young, don’t have credit cards and don’t spend a lot of money on the net. They are also the people MYSPACE wants to protect and so if you cross the line they may come after you - worse case is that they tar everyone with a large number of links as spammers… I’m sure google is looking at the problem at thier end too and so spam links from MYSPACE maybe seen as bad news…