Swenzy is a company that offers marketing services on social media sites. They offer fake YouTube views, Facebook likes, and Twitter followers. The Daily Dot has recently received an additional 75,000 viewers and counting. Because of the extra boost, 85% of The Daily Dot’s followers are now fake. If The Daily Dot didn’t write an article of their experience, Twitter would’ve most likely took some form of action. The Daily Dot also stated that it was a DDoS attack. Unfortunately, the writer was wrong. The method of the attack is more like a “Joe job” technique.
A Joe job is a spamming technique in which someone sends out huge volumes of spam that appear to be from someone other than the actual source. The technique aims at tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender. This technique is originated from Joe Doll, webmaster of joes.com. One user’s joes.com account was removed due to advertising through spam. In retaliation, the user sent another spam with the “reply-to” headers forged to make it appear to be from Joe Doll. Besides prompting angry replies, it also caused joes.com to fall prey to denial-of-service attacks that temporarily took the web site down.
Then What’s a DDoS attack? Imagine you’re the owner of a small retail store. One day you have a wave of 900 customers walking into your store at the same time demanding information, returns, and other inquiries. Instead of customers, it’s computers asking information from servers. Eventually, the server gets overwhelmed and crashes. This is simple idea of how a DDoS (Distributed Denail of Service) attack works.
It is speculated that Swenzy framed The Daily Dot of violating Twitter’s Term of Service because The Daily Dot ran a news story last year that eventually caused Swenzy (formally known as SocialVevo) to shut down their YouTube bot service. In the early stages of YouTube, big music companies and video-hosting services like Vevo, worked with service providers like Swenzy to use the fake views in order to boost content to YouTube’s front page. Because of the illegal practice, in 2012, YouTube slashed more than 2 billion views from Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG, and RCA Record in an effort against black hat view count-building techniques.
Quick Way To Turn YouTube Into Your Own Music Playlist
Tired of switching tabs or windows to access your music playlist? Streamus is a chrome extension that allows you to create your own music playlist from YouTube’s music library without having to leave your current web page.
Type Streamus into your search bear then hit the tab button and search for an artist.
Maybe you’re more of a Pandora user, allowing the service to select what to play for you based on your preference. No problem. Streamus has a “radio” feature which selects more songs based on your current selection. Additional buttons include your basic repeat, shuffle, and save stream, which allows you to save your built playlist.
Streamus is a free chrome extension. The extension is still in it’s early stages, so do expect a few bugs and errors. Nonetheless, this is a unique feature for users who enjoy listening to music when working or surfing the net.