Radio Surfing

Really Matter...To MeAnywhere the Wind Goes.. Doesn't

I never bothered to get a CD player for my car. I've never seen the need. One less thing for people to steal.

That said, I treat the car radio like many people treat their channel changer on their TV. I jump, hop and skip.

Some of the things I came across today-

S&G "I am a Rock". This really has to be one of the saddest songs there is.
"I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me."
Sad.

And then there was Elton John and Kiki Dee (has anyone ever heard of Kiki Dee since?) and the duet "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart".
"Don't go breaking my heart
I couldn't if I tried
Honey if I get restless
Baby you're not that kind"

I got a kick out of imagining me and VvonV recording that duet. Just for cheesiness.

Moved on to Pink Floyd-
"So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here. "

Very short, very sad song. But one of those songs where it's completely linked to the album, in your head, to where when it's over, you expect the next song on the album to start- which doesn't happen on a radio station.

Then on to SuperTramp-
"So you think your schooling's phoney
I guess it's hard not to agree
You say it all depends on money
And who is in your family tree
Right, you're bloody well right
you know you got a right to say
Right, you're bloody well right
you know you got a right to say
Ha-ha you're bloody well right
you know you're right to say
Yeah-yeah you're bloody well right
you know you're right to say
Me, I don't care anyway!"

I do have to say that among all of the concerts I saw in my teens, SuperTramp has to be one of the very best. Their songs are 'crisp'. Stellar.

Then there was-

"Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to Say to You"..
In my mind, a perfect example of a solo/wank that works. Generally I hate solos, because they are usually just wank-a-thons with no redeeming purpose. But in this song, it's integral, and it just plain works. If it wasn't there, you'd miss it.

That's just a sampling of the songs I heard today. Thinking about it, it'd be kind of funny of VvonV and I recorded 'Muscrat Love', too. Cheese factor.

I would be remiss to not give this link to what I consider to be a genius song- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exr-DOWJ3A0&feature=player_embedded#
This one is close- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y_BCQ9xMwM

Why Jury Duty Sucks

Who Can Afford to be on Jury Duty?

VvonV has recently been scheduled for Jury Duty. He got the mailed order, and had the option to lie in order to get out of it, but he didn't.

So, yesterday morning he had to report downtown at court for Jury Duty. Meaning, that he missed work. Most people don't know that if you do Jury Duty, your employer has no obligation to pay you while you miss work.

Meaning, that VvonV missed a day's work, and will not get paid for it.

There are all kinds of ways to get out of Jury Duty. The most obvious of these would be making statements that show you are racist. There are a ton of other commonly known ways. The thing is, VvonV didn't resort to any of those things. It's one of the million reasons why I love him to death.

But, he's been brought back again today. Which means another day with no pay. As far as I know, the only reimbursement you can get for Jury Duty is parking fees, which for VvonV would be about $7 a day.

It doesn't look good, in that he hasn't been sent home yet today- I hope he's not going to be signed on. We cannot afford for him to not get paid for days/weeks/months of him being on a Jury, just because he is an honest person.

I can't count the times I've gotten screwed over because I was honest. I understand why a lot of people are dishonest- you get rewarded for it. For some people, I'm guessing myself and VvonV, it's just impossible not to be honest, even when you are aware of what being honest will entail. What it will cause.

I just hope whoever he's being kept on for will plead guilty or have their case dismissed, because we absolutely cannot afford for him to not get paid while he's serving as a juror. And it's not likely he'll be dismissed, because he's the perfect combo of being a minority (spanish) as well as being destructively honest. He's an attorney's wet dream.

Dogs on Chains

If There's Anything I HATE, it's Dogs on Chains

Today, on the way to driving Z to school, I saw a little puppy stuck on a four-foot leash attached to a fountain in the front of someone's yard. Puppy yelping and all that.

I live in one of THE best neighborhoods in town. So good, in fact, that I will probably shortly not be able to financially continue to live here. Suffice to say, it's not a barrio.

I drove past slowly, and the homeowner came out and stared at me aggressively. I didn't say anything, I just shook my head.

Later this morning, I drove past again, and the puppy was still there. Again, the homeowner stared/glared at me. This time I stopped. The guy approached my car and said- 'Do you have a problem?'
To which I said, yes. I do have a problem with people who chain their dogs.

But here's the key, and it might help other people who care about animals- I did not say it in an aggressive way, even though I was approached aggressively. I said it in a sympathetic way... and added that I used to have an animal welfare organization in Santa Barbara years ago.

So how it turns out is this- (his story) He found this abandoned puppy on his worksite and took it home. He was working in the yard, and wanted the puppy to be near him, but didn't want him running in the street, since he'd recently had a hit and run on one of his cats.

Context is everything.

Having a dog restrained, but near you, such as working in the yard, is a really good thing. Eventually they will learn to shadow you while you work, without running into the street. The fact that the puppy was yelping was not because it was being restrained needlessly, it was yelping because it was not near enough (in it's opinion) to it's new owner. Those are all good things, if the owner deals with them correctly.

End being- his work entails things that VvonV and I might need, so it's a good resource. People are less likely to cheat or screw people over when they live down the block from each other.

Rich people and poor people alike, good neighborhoods and bad neighborhoods alike- you never know what people are doing with their pets. You can't assume just because you live in a good neighborhood that people are not abusing their pets. The key is whether or not you will confront what appears to be pet abuse, and how you approach it. If I had approached this in a confrontational attitude, I doubt I ever would have found out what the real situation was. I probably would have been told to fuck off. And I would have left thinking that this was an animal-abusing person.

I think this is a flaw that a lot of animal activist and vegetarian people have. That they get confrontational when there's no need to. I can't think of any situation that's ever been resolved peacefully when approached aggressively. There are a lot of people who have been long-term vegetarians because of their association with me, and it was never confrontational. Providing free vegetarian food without a sermon seems to me to be pretty effective. Telling people that 'Meat is Murder' might be true, but it will only isolate the people you are trying to reach. Cooking vegetarian food, and being generous with it will make better of an impression. People rarely change their viewpoints when they are put on the defensive. I have no doubt this applies to many other topics than animal rights or vegetarianism.

Being involved with animal concerns or vegetarianism often sucks, because you are constantly being bombarded with reports of cruel things that just break your heart- but there are other things that happen once in a while that make you feel better. Today was one of those days for me. It was nice to hear that someone was doing something to allow their pet to be near them while they were working.

All that aside- Yes, I do hate the chaining of dogs. I can't think of a better way to develop a neurotic, aggressive, unhappy dog that will happily bite your child's face off. If you have to chain your dog, you do not need to have a dog. I doubt that chaining your husband or wife (which is also pretty common, though it rarely involves physical chains) would have better results.

Bottom line, in my opinion, is that chaining of dogs is cruel. If you have to chain your dog in order to force it to stay with you, then you are better off not having dogs. And they'd certainly have a better life not being around you. Give them to someone who doesn't chain them.

Microsoft XBox Live Billing Practices

Does Microsoft XBox Live engage in Shifty Billing Practices?

One of the sucky things about having Fibro and CEBV is that it makes it very difficult to be organized. I used to be massively OCD- I knew my bank balance to the penny on any given day, planned grocery shopping and menu planning a month in advance, had all of my Christmas presents purchased AND wrapped by the summer before. Luckily, I didn't have the constant hand-washing type. Any drawbacks I might have had were overshadowed by my extreme organization.

After having Fibro and CEBV, not so much. What I'm left with is the need to have all labels on all products in my house (including pantry, medicine cabinet, fridge and freezer, cds, books) facing forward. Like most Fibro sufferers, my short-term memory is for shit. Meaning, that I often give out my phone number from 10 years ago instead of the one I've had for 6 years. Or my previous address. Or the ones from Santa Barbara from 18 years ago. Somehow I store information, I just don't have access to it until at least a year later. That sucks.

What is my point? Well, in researching the crack-head billing that VvonV has gotten from Virgin Mobile (that's going to be a separate entry), I realized that I have been charged all kinds of fees from Microsoft XBox Live. Years ago, I would have noticed the same day I was charged, since I was on top of every bill or speck of dust that appeared.

As it stands, I realize that over the last 3 months, I have been charged over $125 in billing from Microsoft XBox Live. It started on 7/15 with an $49.99 charge, and follows with 7 more charges in the amounts of either $6.25 or $12.50. I did not authorize any of these charges.

I have purchased other Microsoft downloads, to which I submitted my credit card info. I signed my son up for XBox live, under the impression it was free. Since my son has no access to my credit card, I'm guessing Microsoft used my CC info from my previous orders in order to process these charges.

I'm also going to guess that while my son was playing his XBox, he was presented with options of further game-playing, and that he clicked 'yes' to those, not knowing (how could he.. or me?) that they were not free, and would be charged to my credit card. And that they were automatically charged to my stored CC information. That's my guess now, anyway.

Obviously, I am going to contest these charges. It seems crazy that a game geared towards children should allow them to charge things to their parent's CC.

Solutions? I think having a password would be helpful. That would mean that when XBox tries to solicit a child into racking up charges, their parent would have to punch in a password agreeing to those charges, since the are the ones paying for it. Alternately, if they would send an email confirming a supposed 'charge', it would alert the parent that a charge has been made, so they don't discover it by accident 3 months later.

Just last month I had to contest a 900 charge on my phone bill. Seems that my youngest son was playing RuneScape, and someone came on and promised him some great weapon if only he would call 'x' number. Well, that 'X' number somehow captured our telephone number, and charged my ATT phone account two charges of 9.95. For nothing, as my son obviously was not given what was promised. He is too young to understand that people generally suck and are exploitive. Contacting ATT, I was able to reverse the charges, as their check showed that the number called was not a business, it was a number capture site. We were lucky it was reversed, and that it was only for $20 and not $200 or $2000.

So- I'm not liking the charges from XBox, and am now going to have to talk to my son about them- even though I can't find any info online about how to contest them, or even what they are for.

The practice of businesses stopping sending 'real' invoices or statements out gets hyped by how they are saving so many trees, but that's really worthless if they don't send email invoices or statements. I am an 'out of the closet' treehugger, yet I disagree with not getting a paper or email invoice or statement.

Virgin Wireless is guilty of this as well. I only found out about these charges by researching excessive Virgin charges, which I didn't see because my credit union has stopped sending paper statements.

Whatever happened to just running an honest business?

Teenaged Twitter Rocket Wasteland

Hannah Montana, er, Solo has Once again Dignified this Site to ..? Not Sure What She Intended to Do

I remember being a teenager. It wasn't like how everyone else describes it, how they think they're invincible and smarter that their parents and all that. I had a very harsh beginning, and grew up early. I started working as a waitress when I was 14, and got out of high school early and into college my Junior year. I moved out of my parents' house, and using money I'd saved waitressing and modelling, opened my own licensed and bonded Modelling and Talent agency when I was 17.

I now have 2 children who are in the "GATE" programs, and the last thing I'd like them to do is listen to spoiled teenaged brats who don't know how to work, and who in their blogs encourage children to just drop out of school to 'blog' for a living. I sincerely hope my children don't do poorly on their college entrance tests like the people who advocate that did.

That said- it's all well and nice that Miss Hannah has decided to hop my site. She sure hasn't been blogging on her site for pretty much forever, even though she claims to be a 'blogger'. However, I will humour her, much as I would my own children, when they talk about things they thing they know something about, but really don't. I call it 'real life'.

So forgive me for being Snarky, but as an adult and a parent, when I hear teens trying to talk all grown up, it brings out the snark in me.
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Here's Miss Hannah's commetns-

Since you've calmed down a little maybe it's time to clear the air with some reasoned argument.

I don't personally care enough about 'get rich quick' schemes (whether they work or not, to have ever been 'not calm'.

Your review makes it obvious that you still haven't purchased a copy. Which means you were probably given the fake copy that the SWBN were hawking around last Friday night, for around 10 minutes before they got shut down.

The reason it might seem obvious that I have never purchased the Twitter Rocket is because I have said in my posts over and over that I have not. Doesn't take a genius to figure that one out. I do not personally know anyone from the SWBN- but if I'm not mistaken, either them or that guy from the Phillipines were the first people to sound the alarm about the Twitter Rocket, not me. I don't take claim for sniffing that out first.

The truth (and you can believe me or not, I don't really mind) is that SWBN never had Twitter Rocket and were taken off line for passing off there own little creation.

If you have sold as many Twitter Rockets as you all claim, I don't believe you could know whether you or the millions of affiliates sold a copy to them. Unless you have a 'blacklist'.

350,000 followers from distributed sources all aimed at an account has a big impact.

I don't recall myself or the SWBN claiming otherwise. But that is not something you can review in an eBook, which is what we essentially have reviewed.

Registered users are the only ones who can access it - that's why the reviews written by people who didn't pay for it (like you, I'm guessing) don't mention it.

And that might be problematic, since I can't find one review of anyone experiencing the little social network y'all are wanting to talk about now.

That is all there is to it. Sure, there are instructions on how to do a few things to make your account more attractive and to optimize it but the part that all the bogus reviews (done by people who aren't registered users) miss is the network push.
You can't really argue with numbers either.

I could argue it, but I tend to avoid trying to argue with teens. I do find it a little disconcerting that you dismiss the eBook so easily, as if it was 'nothing'.

I have been using it for 3 months and have around 20,000 followers. I got every single one with Twitter Rocket. I didn't pull them out of thin air, I didn't use any tricks.

I have no doubt that you have followed 20k people, and have gotten 20k anonymous people to follow you. No matter how it was gained, Twitter shows it. I would have to be a moron not to acknowlege that. But...What I wonder about is how that helps you or anyone at all. As far as I've heard, you have no business. You haven't created any product to sell. So why would it matter if you had 20k or 100k followers?
If you really think marketing the Twitter Rocket is going to be a lifetime job for you, then I'm speechless. Much like I often am when I hear teen logic.

I use the automated ad script to send out advertisements from time to time. Certainly nothing that would cause any TOS problems.

And I think the SWBN touched on that- that you have to be careful not to bee 'too
abusive with your ads.

And yes I make money from it. A lot of money. Because there is a lot of interest in the product - both negative and positive - which makes it very easy to sell.

And that's great for you, honey. I was kind of worried when I read some of your posts about wanting flashy cars and big houses. Because any 'smart' person of any age always invests their money in tangible property that keeps it's value- not impressive crap that loses 3/4 of it's value in a month.

The SWBN ran their article and got caught telling lies. It was obvious. Their review claimed to be about one thing, defamed that one thing, and then proved that they never had it in the first place by failing to mention anything genuine about the real product.

I read their review, and I am of the opinion that they 'stated their opinion' but did not lie. If fact, I did not find it to be as harsh of a review as they could have done. They were fairly even-handed.

Their supporters sprang into action, crying foul, but the fact that what they had revealed wasn't a reveal at all. It was, as you have found out, just a bunch of stuff that anyone could get from the internet.

I am going to guess you really didn't mean to say that all the info from the eBook was easy stuff you could get from the internets. Did you? Because that would mean the eBook should have been given away for free *from a marketing standpoint* and people only charged for the automated feed and the luxury of the internet friendship of the likes of you and AM.

You can't copy and give away something that requires personal verification and registration. That's what makes review like this one a little comical because, as I already mentioned, registered customers just roll their eyes and see straight through it.

You are right that you cannot give away some little scheduling program that needs an authorization key. But you can certainly give away eBooks. And it appears people have been giving those away since they began to be sold. Of course, it would be snarky of me to point out that there are other free programs out there that also will schedule and post Tweets. For free.

Your attack on Upstart Blogger (not the Upstart Blogger or the people behind Upstart Blogger as you keep calling him) is pretty silly as well and shows that you know nothing about what he has achieved, and the respect he has earned, since he launched that blog in 2004.

I have never once said anything bad about the Upstart Blogger or it's founder. In fact, I stated I had been reading the blog. Of course, now I'm realizing I was probably reading back posts when it belonged to someone else, but the site itself did have some useful information on it. You can claim whatever you want. Until you come up with proof that I ever have written anything personally about Ashley or the Upstart Blogger, then you should keep your little mouth shut, Missy.

Writing a bad review is not something that should attract such violent outbursts and I honestly don't see why your previous outbursts ended in such ridiculous conflict.

I have no clue what that babbling was about. I wuold have to personally care about the TR in order to have 'violent outbursts'. How exactly does one 'think' one thinks another person is doing that in cyberspace? Make up your mind- did I or did I not write a previous 'bad review'? You know the answer is that NO, I never wrote any review at all up til now.
I have been very honest in that I have never previously written a review about the Upstart Blogger... but when 7 of you diehards spam Tweets- most of them clones of each other withing minutes, I've really had to hold my tongue about the claim it was not 'spam'. It's like gum wrappers and aluminum cans on the highway. You could at least get together and agree to stagger your auto tweets.
Oh wait, yes I do, it was because a bunch of people allowed themselves to get into a mono syllabic fight which soon degenerated into something much much nastier.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to reach out to you, GloryBug (see, I did it again, just for you) on my Twitter account @blogginghannah so you can watch Twitter Rocket being used. No commitment, if you want a tour I'll give you a tour. If you don't, if you want to keep relying on fake stuff that you get from websites that get closed down for passing off, then that's cool too.

Or, Hannah, you could stop being a self-absorbed teenager and watch other people, like me, do what they do on Twitter. Which is to try to raise money for charities that adults care about. Or to discuss their children. Or to talk about what would probably be the biggest change you could ever do in your life, or for the world, which is to go vegetarian or vegan. I am an artist, writer and musician, as well as a mother (which is THE most important thing), and my beloved VvonV is a writer and musician who is currently recording his 5th album. I seriously doubt that any 'teenager' could give me a tour about anything. I am pretty sure we both have been there, done that with our respective bands and tours.

How about we turn this around, and I give you some tips on your 'tour' in life that you pretty much even haven't started yet? I'd say stay in school. I'd say, no matter how much money you claim you're making- get a job. Be an adult. Learn some responsiblility. Stop telling other people's children that all your teenaged knowlege qualifies you to tell them to drop out of school and 'blog'. That's teenaged idiocy at it's finest.

I'll leave your little backlink here to your account on my blog, but only because the TR people have made it clear they will call conspiracy theory on anyone who doesn't. So- if you have any intention of contacting teenaged Hannah (please forgive me if you've turned the ripe age of 20 since your last reported age), contact her here.

I'd like to reassure you, Miss Hannah, that all the men who will take you up on your Twitter offer only want to get next to your magnificent brain. Because men really respect and listen to business advice given by teens who've never had a real job. If it looks like they're looking at your tits, don't worry- they're just looking for our name tag.


Same goes for any of your readers. If you want to see Twitter Rocket at work visit me at my twitter account http://www.twitter.com/blogginghannah and I'll happily connect with you and give you a tour / answer any direct questions etc. et.

See. We're not all that bad. Rich, maybe. Nasty, no. Life's too short.
One more thing. The real ebook that accompanies the Twitter Rocket system doesn't mention money at all. More proof that you haven't got / see / purchase the real thing.
But, since a lot of you want to read numbers, in my experience some people make a little money, some people make a lot.

Now, see, that's one thing you and your friends always forget to say. That I never said the e-book claimed to make big money. It didn't. It's the 3 post a year bloggers, and the no website posters that keep garbaging up Twitter with their repeating tweets. Have you even searched "Twitter Rocket" on Twitter? If you have, it will be clear it's being tweeted hourly with canned messages that link back to no real websites. It's all affiliate links.

You Twitter Rocket people need to synchronize your advertising tweets so that y'all don't say the same empty affiliate linked thing every hour. Maybe Twitter Rocket "4" could work on that... snynchronizing the auto-tweets to vary the canned messages and stagger them throughout the day.

My earnings are probably about average.
The only Twitter / Income equation I have ever used myself is that 10,000 followers can easily be turned into $1,000 a week. But that is my own experience and not something that was taught or suggested to me.

Well, I think that's funnier than shit, since you are selling 4-5 Twitter Rockets a day. You'd think SOMEONE else besides you would come forward and show proof of earnings. Maybe some of the 4-5 people a day you've claimed to have sold to in the last couple of months? And not the kind statement that you originally showed, where it was obvious someone had photoshopped something about the statement.

My bottom line is this- I am going to stick by my review. I said it did not appear to be a fraud, pyramid scheme, MLM ar scam. I just didn't think the script or the 'friendship' with certain people was even worth $97.

I absolutely believe that if you want to accumulate 10k followers on Twitter using this program, according to the eBook I saw, you can do it. Unless you have a specific niche that isn't called 'get rich quick'. What you want to do with those 10k followers is your own business- if you actually have a business.

As far as trying to be nice to me on my own blog here- I don't need it. You already called me old and ugly, bitter, and? and? just because I questioned your photoshopped earnings. I have not felt the need to post on your blog, because you don't write. You aren't a blogger. You write on average once in a couple of months when you got your knickers in a twist- and this is what you advise kids to drop out of school for? I am an adult woman, and I don't need your immature teenaged girl support at all.

I understand that you are all confused about the fact that I didn't write a horrible review as you were anticipating, but you'll get over it.

In fact, it will give you time to ponder what marketing brainfuck went wrong by having all the Twitter Rocket people cybernet gangbang people they 'thought' were a threat.

I can say that if my website were shut down, even temporarily, for the GENERIC review that the SWBN did, I would not be as nice about it. I'd probably go to small claims to make you pay any fees I incurred. I can also say, I have no respect for pansy-asses who cry wolf every time someone says something about them that they don't like, and has to report it to the teacher. Are y'all adults, or are you grade school children? Get over yourselves.

And like I said before, I can guarantee that the typos I have seen in the 4 eBooks I've been sent for review will match those put out by the UB. It is the same hugely widespaced, white spaced eBook.

You can't threaten or sue or shut down my site for me saying I think the product does the minimal that the PRODUCT (not the Tweeters) claims to do. And you can't claim anything else, because I have not and would not ever want to make a dime off your mediocre product. In fact, I'd like to be repaid for the time I've had to spend moderating all the NASTY things your people have posted on my site= against me, and trying to impersonate me and slander me.

As it stands, I'll call it even. I have to. I have my beloved VvonV and my children to attend to- and I'm not trying to be rude, but they are more important than you.

Twitter Rocket Review

Don't Mess with the Zohan... eh, I mean the Twitter Rocket

As I have said previously, I have never tried to review the Twitter Rocket myself, because it would be silly for me to if I hadn't actually bought a copy.

Thing is, that within the last few weeks it isn't true that I have never seen the product, because now I have received 4 different copies of it.

I was going to wait, after opening a special Twitter account just for that, in order to review it. But now that they've gotten so aggressive about a website for just telling the truth, I am going to come forward and back them up.

I have a different way of reviewing things than other people may. I am not going to link to anyone's page that has reviewed it positively or negatively, but you can find them on the internet yourself. I don't review products step-by-step on the product's terms- I review them in my own way. Saying that, and having read the SWBN review, I cannot disagree with anything they said, even though I would not have approached it that way.

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Here's the skinny about the Twitter Rocket, acoording to me

The Twitter Rocket marketing on Twitter and on people's personal web pages, where they claim boundless income, is not reflected in the eBook. If I'm not mistaken, the only time the eBook mentions possible income, they claim you 'might' be able to make $1000 a month.

While the eBook itself does not push selling the product as the 'main' moneymaking venture, nor does it push website posting on ANHosting (which a lot of the websites were doing) it doesn't really give any information about how a huge increase of Twitter followers will make you more money. So while the majority of the TR websites I have followed have not posted any original content or appear to exist for any other reason than to resell the Twitter Rocket, the eBook does not focus on that much, other than tell you how to do it yourself without a website.
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I do agree with the SWBN in that it isn't just an eBook. It includes a auto-script which I will concede could be claimed as a 'product'. I can say that I don't get why the eBook was broken down into different days, other than to spread the effort out a little, and to give the impression that it's a 'system'. There was nothing in the eBook that a person could not find on the internets within a couple of hours... other than the auto-script Twitter feature. But other variations of that are on the internets right now as well.

I agree with the SWBN that some of the suggestions are borderline abuse of Twitter TOS, and that the eBook recommendations detail how to push that envelope without being banned for spam or TOS violations.

I do think it's funny that the website that created the Twitter Rocket, as well as a couple of the higher ups in that group really shouldn't complain about people questioning the Twitter Rocket, when by their own boasts, their claim to fame was discounting, discrediting, badmouthing and calling spammers of people who essentially are doing nothing more than they are.

Based on what I read, do I believe if you follow the very basic guidelines the eBook suggests (it's a bit scant, and there was a LOT of white space in the eBook), you could achieve 20k followers in 6 months? Yes. But I think that would be more likely for younger or teenaged people who are not marketing or selling anything, and who are only interested in having MORE followers than their peers. Because I think it would be difficult if your niche was anything other than 'make money quick' fellow followers, that you would achieve those numbers.

I know that for my specific niches, it would be unreasonable to even have 10k followers who shared the same interests as myself.

I honestly was not impressed with the eBook. It took me less than 5 minutes to read (granted, I am a pretty talented speed-reader), because it had a lot of white space. But the info it provided was nothing a cursury search of the internets could have provided. I am not going to comment on the auto-script thing that came with them, because I did not try to access them. I don't know how the auto-script thing would compare against the available auto-scripts being offered for free on the internets. I would question whether it would be worth more than low-end shareware.

I guess that's where the marketing comes in. That is where I've really had my problems. I do not like at all the spamming/littering and duplicate/multiple posts every day by TR affiliates who are not even follwing the eBook by essentially spamming- because you are not offering unique or interesting info. You're just Tweeting about how great the TR is, and providing a direct ordering link with your affiliate number to te Upstart Blogger. I have a problem with the marketing, which was why I was so surprised to see that the eBook did not reflect at all what all the Twittering people keep spamming about. I can honestly say the eBook (as far as I remember) did not once claim grandiose income, unlike the people on the internet promoting it.

In My Opinion

Is it an MLM Marketing plan? No. The eBook does not claim to pay you a percentage of your recruits (after your first $47 cut), nor does it ask you to recruit others in order to get paid commissions on their sales. (I have not bought the 'product', but the eBook does not emphasize that).

Is it a Ponzi Scheme? No- because it does not appear they are using first secondary investory's money to pay previous investor's interest.

Is it a scam? In my opinion, (according to only the eBook, and not what the TR spammy promoters who are claiming specific dollar amounts of earnings say) the eBook does not qualify as a scam. It does qualify as a waste of money, since the information contained within is easily available on the internets if you can take the time to research it. I'm going to guess that the script component is not a scam, unless it does not allow you to automate your tweets as it claims. I'm going to guess it does, though I am uneasy about how long Twitter will tolerate that type of usage. I think the SWBN was right in their different TOS violations Twitter might find with it eventually. I also wonder how enforceable the 'lifetime support' could be. I do think that it's possible that any Twitter Rocket social networking would result in generic Twitter follwers, though I still maintain I can't see the point in it, nor that it's worth $97. I would never in good consconsience sell this product to any family or friends.

I think it's closest to a dead-end product, in that it does not sell a re-ordering or consumale product, and after a while the market will be saturated with a product nobody wants. At that point, once everyone starts pulling out, it will resemble a pyramid scheme.

I also wonder if the Twitter Rocket hasn't shot themselves in the foot by some of their more rabid promoters being so abusive on people's websites, claiming all kinds of conspiratorial theories... since I can't see how a business that called themselves the 'Twitter Rocket' would not attract attention of attorneys for Twitter for copyright infringement. It seems a self-destructive move to accuse other people of anything that would draw the atention of people you were personally illegally using the copyrighted name of.

Lastly, for anyone who doubts that I've been given 4 copies over the last 3 weeks, of the Twitter Rocket, I proofread the eBook, and can provide a statement of exactly which words were incorrectly spelled, as well as inproper syntax, punctuation and generic language errors, which, if I truthfully received copies of the Twitter Rocket, one check will match the errors in the copies of other people who have bought the 'system'.

I can also say that if people do not stop posting libelous things on my website, filling them with racist spam and anonymous bile-spewing, including that I am somehow posting under other names on my own comments section, I will break with my standard, and I will post every date-certified email post that I have received over the last 3 months from all kinds of Twitter Rocket people regarding the Twitter Rocket. I'll post every single personal email address, since the Twitter Rocket people have been exspecially nasty about purposefully posting my real life name again and again as harrassment- and then everyone can sort out who's email address IPs are from who. As I've said before, I'm not interested enough or computer savvy enough to be bothered to have done that myself before now.

But- when you have a good product, you don't need a bunch of abusive people to essentially 'piss' on other people's websites. I won't personally look into the personal background of every Twitter Rocket person who has emailed me, but I'm pretty sure since this is not the only website they've harrassed, there are more than a few other people who would be interested in finding out who YOU are, and posting YOUR real name on the internets as you've done mine.

Twitter Rocket Bullies?

If Rust Never Sleeps, then I guess the Twitter Rocket never Naps

I take a few days off while I'm tweaking my new Studio laptop up (yes, I got a new one, and VvonV got a replacement Studio14z, both of which I'll review soon), and pandemonium appears to have broken loose.

Not like it wasn't headed that way anyway- the Twitter Rocket Advocate people have been some of the most aggressive and least tactful promoters of a product I've seen in quite a while.

The latest debacle is that it appears they've made copywrite claims against the SWBN, a website that dared to review their product. Claims that resulted in the website and apparently their FaceBook site being suspended.

The content of what had been posted is no longer available on their site, but I was able to access it on cached Google pages.

The Breakdown

From what I read, it appears they simply went over each of the steps provided without plagarizing or claiming credit for the 'product' in the eBook and gave their personal opinion about them. I did not see anywhere where they slandered the Twitter Rocket or anyone involved with it- nor did they seem to be able to prove the main core of what the Twitter Rocket claims- that the product might be able to increase your Twitter followers numbers to not be true. I refuse to use the term 'grow your followers', because it seems grammatically incorrect.
The did question how relevant 'autofollowers' might be for any particular niche, which is something I had questioned.

They did mention that there was a 'script' for automation along with the eBook, which my experience has shown is true. I have thus far received 3 copies of the Twitter Rocket package, and what they stated in their review matches each of the copies I have received, as far as content.

It is very common to review products online, and as long as you do not claim their copywritten items were yours, or slander them, or reveal trade secrets, it really would be foolish for anyone to get aggressive and report your site for copyright infringment. Having an opinion is not copywrite infringement. It is not the opinion of anyone's products or ideas that constitute infringement, but the theft of those ideas and the making money from that and/or slander that would be the problem.

I have not seen that the SWBN tried to make any money off the product, but I did read that they reported the'd bought it, and if they did, they were entitled to make money off it just like anyone else who bought it does. As far as some of the TR people claiming they've made money by increased traffic to their websites, I'd have to beg to differ.

I have had an increase in traffic to my website since becoming interested in the Twitter Rocket- amost completely negative, as it appears to be only TR people, and their posts to the comments are at least tedious, and at most, borderline slanderous. I have actually seen a loss in the small amount of income I'd been getting from marketing on my sites since I started covering the TR marketing campaign. Not just in the main site that posted about it, but in my other, non-related sites as well. With nasty comments to ALL of my sites.

I've also been accused of removing or not allowing comments, even whilst the comments on the posts about the TR are bloated. According to the TR people in their comments, I am smart enough to know how to block and edit comments, yet too stupid to know how to set my comments bar up properly; smart enough to post under my own comments under at least 7 various names, (by people who have posted anonymously)including being accused of being a man from the Phillipines, yet stupid enough to 'accidentally' post in my own comments as 'other' people under the same IP address. Stupid enough to anonymously post babbling, cussing, things. I've been accused in my own comments sections of being a liar, racist, promoting rape.. of people claiming they have personally emailed me when they have not, of just plain everything including the kitchen sink.

I've been called 'old, ugly, bitter, jealous', amongst the myriad of accusations made by the TR people.

At this point I'd like to ask that all of the anonymous people accusing me of posting as other people than 'glorybug', provide proof of it. Because claiming that with no proof is pretty much slander. That you personally post your 'so-called' proof publicly. Because one thing I know about life is that even though it sucks sometimes waiting for it, the truth always wins. And the truth is I only post under the name of 'glorybug', because I have underaged children.

The one thing that a couple of Twitter Rocket promoters have gotten correct is that it's true that I've never reviewed the product or claimed that it did not work, because I had not purchased it. The not having reviewed it part is true, as it the never claiming it didn't work.

But- not having a copy of it is not true. Because I do.