Why Paper.li Doesn’t Work
Paper.li, if you don’t know, is a social media aggregator of sorts that pulls in other people’s blog posts and tweets and spams out a tweet to all of them. Well, today two of my posts got sucked into one of these “papers”, and the irony was quite amusing.
The paper’s topic was something to do with freelancing. I clicked on it only to see what it had pulled in… It was a surprise.
Paper.li pulled in my blog post about NaNoWriMo, and my video of my band playing at my school. Pretty much the opposite of the topic of the paper, yet my stuff was included. I do tweet about freelance stuff as well, but I guess the bot couldn’t tell the difference between a concert video and a link to a web design article.
So I laughed, closed the tab, and carried on.
Paper.li is bringing absolutely no value to the world. So, please, stop using it and maybe it will go away, if we could be so lucky.
