Andrew Baron today made a solemn promise on a stack of Bibles - he'll never ever sell his Twitter account on eBay ever again.
Who is Andrew? He's the creator of Rocketboom and often a very vocal critic of others in the podcast and Web 2.0 world who a a couple weeks ago decided to sell his Twitter account on eBay to the highest bidder, and then somewhere had an attack of conscience and pulled the auction. As Sean said in his coverage the other day:
The Craigslist offer has also been pulled now, and it seems Mr. Baron has canceled both of them because, as he said in an interview, he was told the bidders could "all (be) spam marketers, people who will do anything just to get their name out there, people who don't understand Web 2.0 and blogging."
I, like many of you, find it hard to believe that anyone is unaware of the menace of spammers, and that they may try to take a shortcut towards getting a foothold in the market and a potential direct line to people's mobile inboxes.
As I noted on our last episode of Elite Tech News, though, while the first Twitter account sale might fetch a pretty penny, but as soon as the new ill-intentioned spammer got a hold of it, statistics show from the RU4Real study, that most folks would instantly unsubscribe, giving the Twitter account a remarkably short shelf life.
You can play the latest Elite Tech News episode right here with the player below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
