According to spam-o-meter.com, right now (17:49 hrs EDT 06/09/09) more than 90% of the traffic on the Internet consists of spam.
Spam is unwanted digital garbage that has been clogging inboxes and networks ever since the commercialization of the Internet in the 1990s.
It serves as a way of keeping the populace well supplied with remedial technologies for the scourge of erectile dysfunction. Internet spam also serves the purpose of keeping anti-virus software manufacturers and researchers very busy tracking it all.
Most reputable organizations would hesitate to resort to spamming their potential clients, but this is mere social convention, and conventions are malleable.
The emergence of the Twitter social networking site has meant the emergence of spam targeting users of the Twitter social networking site.
This strain of spam is particularly attractive to its proponents because it is possible to have your spam climb up to the very top of the topics being discussed on Twitter.
Eventually you may have sufficient numbers of messages pertaining to your spam that your messages register in the Twitter trending topics page, which is of course, the whole idea.
The US Air Force is an all volunteer organization that specializes in breaking things and killing people, generally from a distance.
Given the high rate of homicide and general mayhem on the planet, it’s no wonder that they’re hiring.
The following TweeterBrowser diagram depicts the connections between 40 randomly selected Twitter accounts (and their followers) who sent messages on Twitter containing the words Air Force between 17:03 hrs and 17:39 hrs EDT 06/09/09.
Though there are some ‘island’ users in this data, most of these users are connected either directly, or sometimes through several of their followers.
An examination of some of the ‘tweets’ that fed this diagram might shed some light on this diagram’s characteristics.
Several of these messages are sent from Twitter accounts that have similar names, and the messages all pertain to jobs in the US Air Force. Some of them look quite interesting.
Though none of these postings make it clear, you have to join the Air Force to get these jobs.
The diagram was generated by the TweeterBrowser, a tool for social graph analysis available here at tweeterbrowser.com
