If your a real marketers this is truly good news!
while ms is clearly not what it once was even 6 months ago, what a lot of
marketers have done is go to other social sites, and there are many of them to try out. But here is what happens, this even happened to me with hi5. Once you find one and a techniques that looks like it works, and have a bot made for it then every one and their mother joins the circus, and soon, very soon these places become harder too. So what lot of marketers are doing is NOT going public any more with what works and where. Yes eventually news does leak out like recently with facebook application exploit, but your still not going to know what to do or how, just not readily available yet, and by the time it is, rest assured it will not work as well.
Some socials like bebo do not allow any html so 98% of the
marketers shy away imediately from it because they have no time or patience or skills to find a weak spot and exploit it. Same with tagged, gee you need lots of urls cause they get deleted soo quickly, boo hoo, bla bla. So there too most
marketers shy away quickly, as quckly as tagged deletes urls lol.
But these are not marketers my friend, these are bot spammers looking for a one click fortune or all the answers handed to them. Real marketers make it happen on their own. They are trial blazers, they look for a weakness and exploit it to the fullest and move on to another project when its milked dry. The real rude awakening will be when ms is next to impossible to market on. What will all those webmasters do then? Some of us are not waiting for that to happen and have ventured in to new projects as early as last year or even earlier!
There is money to be made on any social, some are harder then others, and it will be different on each!
What I would like to see is people like uber and dragon make custom bots and keep them private. So if you or I find a need for a custom bot for bebo or facebook, etc, we contract them for a private made bot and not have to worry about seeing it for sale next week to every one. Bots are helpful tools, but some talent is also required. There is enough talent out there! I know people making a killing on CL, Bebo, Facebook, AIM, Tagged, Fubar, Orkut, and many more places. Hell I'm in some of them too!
If your a real marketer you should be very happy that these socials are hard for most people. It makes it better for us
Regards!