Depends how liberally you define "spam." Perhaps this is the cynic in me, but my experience of G+ is that it's full of spam -- just sophisticated, thought out spam. ;)
That's a big part of the reason I largely abandoned it. Too many self-important types.
The biggest difference between politicians and consumables? Well, consumables can ruin your waistline, but politicians can ruin your whole way of life. It's a crying shame that these automated ways of messing with the populace are so easy to come by, but it's hardly new. Just remember Honest Abe Lincoln's famous (and possibly apocryphal) observation that you can fool some of the people all of the time, and that we allow these morons to vote. It has been ever thus, which is why we still use the Electoral College despite people's insistance that it is outmoded and old-fashioned. It also puts some useful space between We The People and our Government. Americans go to the polls tomorrow to decide what kind of future we will have. May God help us all....
With Google;s venture into Google "Plus" and promoting it with the "plus 1" feature and verification of pages, seemingly this may be an attempt to prevent gaming the system.
Getting folks to follow you on Google Plus is not as easy task unless you're a well known personality to begin with. And getting a product or service page verified seems trickier than it should really be.
Google does seem to be making a social system that won't be a likely to be spammed. The cost seems to be it's just not as user friendly as twitter and facebook so far.
Whether Google Plus will be more truthy than competitors remains to be seen.
That is true though i still strongly believe that if twitter had wanted to do something about these bots they are able to do so technically. There may be a different reason why they are choosing to give it time.
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The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
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