Apple, Skype, Adobe, Others Pay Twitterers for Promos
It was only back in January that we saw Belkin make itself look like a fool by advertising to pay consumers who would write glowing product reviews, whether they had used the products or now. Well, it seems that companies never learn, and now there's a veritable flock of magpies -- Apple, Skype, Kodak, Cisco, Adobe, Roxio, PC Tools, and Box.net, to name a few -- trying to snag some good will for themselves by paying consumers to say nice things about them on Twitter.