Habitat Apologies After Twitter Hashtag Spam Campaign

Written by
Desire Athow

24 June, 2009

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It is early days on Twitter and Habitat has been swift to react before the whole thing went really pear shape. This episode highlights how easy it is to trick Twitter when it comes to riding the hashtag wave. Other entities with less noble intentions might learn a few tricks from what happened.

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