Pinterest Spammer Makes $1,000 a Day and Gets Mega Media Coverage in the Process
With all the attention on Pinterest as of lately, there’s two ways to look at the site. The average person thinks… “cool, a new way to find fun stuff to look at online”, while the rest of us are thinking, “sweet! a new traffic source! how can I make money from it?”. You know you are always thinking the same thing whenever something new and huge comes out.
Well, that is the discussion this week as a spammer/affiliate/internet marketing is taking the fame game for a bit while he cashes in on the un-monetized success that is Pinterest. Already getting big media coverage from sites like Mashable, MSNBC, Daily Dot and many more… “Steve” is cashing in on the Pinterest craze and making more than $1,000 a day spamming their networks.
While $1,000 a day might not seem like a ton of money, it seems to be enough to get all of the media coverage you need, which is priceless. When someone is making a ton of money online and not doing it in the most ethical and acceptable ways, most people would keep quite and keep milking the cow for all they can get. “Steve” is very upfront about what he does and how he makes his money spamming Pinterest and simply says he will just keep doing it until they find a way to make it so he can’t.
UPDATE: It turns out that the Pinterest spammer has come out and retracted his comments, saying the whole thing was a hoax. Or was the all media attention simply too much???
Here are some of the highlights from various interviews with “Steve” across the internet.
How do you describe what it is you do? We’ll refer to it as spamming for now. Have you spammed other social networks before?
It’s spam; no other way of putting it. I’ve been through Facebook and Twitter. I’m sure if you ever heard of one of those spammy looking Facebook apps, I was one of the ones doing that.
What do you do when your bots get shut down? What would you do if they all got shut down, and could that ever happen?
Back when I started on Feb. 20, you could pin as many pictures as you wanted to with the same account and all the pins would show up on the boards. Well they changed that around the 23rd I think, and they banned one account. That was my first and only ban so far, maybe more when this interview is publicly posted. Oh how sad I would be. But like I said before, I do have a stockpile of accounts and I can easily create more if needed. Â
Do you feel any guilt about what you’re doing? What would you like to say to Pinterest users who like, friend, and click on your bots — if anything?
Nope, I have no guilt. I’m not trying to scam anyone, or upload viruses to their computer or anything like that. I simply show products to the Pinterest community. I realize that I’m spamming the crap out of the site, but it’s nothing personal, just business.
While there is nothing surprising about finding a way to monetize and make money off Pinterest, it is interesting to see how Pinterest will act and change around their network. This is nothing new, as MySpace, Twitter, Facebook and a ton of other social networks and content generated sites have gone through the same exact thing.
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Pinterest is getting popularity and there is no doubt in it that it can be now a huge demand in online marketing. People are making money in their style but spamming is not that good way.
If used correctly Pinterest can still be a great source of traffic. I get the most traffic on my fashion blog from Pinterest. I doesn't have to involve spamming… This guy revealing his tactics is only going to lose his accounts.
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I'm thinking of doing a career shift. lol
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Pinterest is great new way to make money, but I just can't spam the website and my followers.
Because I've never seen this much dedicated followers like I have on pinterest right now, it's like the twitter in the early days.
thanks for sharing this post.
I think Pinterest is a great site and for an ordinary person like me I find it entertaining. Now that I've read your article, I see how it can be used by website owners, bloggers etc. as a source of traffic and but spamming is just not the way to go. I'm not really sure why this guy wanted to let everyone know about it, maybe for publicity? I think he succeeded.
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Pinterest is getting popularity and there is no doubt in it that it can be now a huge demand in online marketing. so this is realy helpfully………
I'm seriously thinking of using PINTEREST myself, but not for spamming purposes. I'll try to do it more ethically 🙂
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I started using Pinterest but some of the SEO purposes being offered by this website was lost after that hoax article. Why people can't shut their mouth so others can benefit from it?
With the Pinterest success now is appearing a lot of new pinterest clones, and some are available in different languages.
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I started “pinning” this month, and I feel it’s dangerous…. for it start to drive traffic, as I did not especially pin on purpose for that! and plus, I’m addicted with only one sip of it….. well It’s a good exercise for discipline, discip-pin…. and it’s healthy!
I hope Pinterest will come up with solution for blocking spammers as otherwise the useful information is getting lost there and people will walk away from P.
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there's always people taking adavantage of new social networks.