Pingram. Gentlemint - a mint of manly things. Polyvore. Pinterest / Home. Why is Pinterest Spamming Your Facebook Friends? There’s no doubt that what interest-aggregation site Pinterest has managed over the past few months is spectacular.
Recently reaching the milestone of 10 million users, the site has gained traction faster than just about any other site in history. But with that growth comes the responsibility to handle it and the site seems to be falling into spammer territory. A couple of hours ago (as of the time that I’m writing this), Google’s Don Dodge started tweeting that Pinterest was sending him a mass amount of emails saying that he had been followed on the site, and then asking him to follow that person back. Rightly suspicious by the volume of emails that were being sent, Dodge connected directly to one of the people to ask whether the request was made: “They said they received an email from me saying I followed them on Pinterest, and suggested they follow me back.” Need further proof? A couple of questions obviously come to mind. So what’s the right answer? Fancy.