Techdirt. Stories filed under "sins" Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us Techdirt. Stories filed under "sins"http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:02:00 PDT Saudi Cleric Weighs In On The Sin Of 'Buying Twitter Followers' Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120821/08323020112/saudi-cleric-weighs-sin-buying-twitter-followers.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120821/08323020112/saudi-cleric-weighs-sin-buying-twitter-followers.shtml such activity is an out and out "sin" (hat tip to Will for sending over this story)
Senior scholar Sheikh Abdullah told Saudi online news site Sabq that it was “a lie and slander” to pay money to companies to create Twitter followers – thought to be a common practice among celebrities and religious figures in the kingdom.
Another person quoted in the same article, a Saudi clinical psychologist, suggested that such practices go beyond even ethical questions. According to Dr. Talal Thaqafi: "a person who pays money for the sake of increasing the number of followers has a weak and disturbed personality, and is unable to achieve that feat by any other means."

I'm just marveling that such a topic even warrants such scrutiny, but it is a sign of the pervasiveness of Twitter these days.

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