How I (mis)used Deezer to spam Twitter for one horrifying hour.

The first thing I did was join Deezer at the urging of a pal. He said it was the closest thing the soon-to-be-deceased Rdio (and so it is; it’s a really nice web-first music streaming app).

Then of course I had to link my social accounts. But crucially, like a n00b, I forgot to uncheck the boxes below. Which are, of course, checked by default. Basically, anytime I “fave” an album or song it’s going to post to Twitter (Facebook too, but this kind of automated music activity is way more hidden from most Facebook users). Okay, though, no big deal. It’s not like I’m going to go on some kind of favoriting rampage.

Except, the next thing I do is automatically import all my activity from Rdio using a service called Mooval. On Rdio, I have almost 200 playlists and literally thousands of faved/loved albums and songs. 5 years of activity.

So what happened?

This.

Hundreds and hundreds of tweets in just a few minutes flooded my poor Twitter followers. I had a few folks try to intervene.

But their entreaties didn’t work. Why? Because Mooval had given me an error message, and I figured the import didn’t work. So I went to bed.

But the import did work. It was just a bit delayed. And I learned a valuable lesson about how not to break in a new web service.

Sorry, Twitter pals.