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Got the following email today from photographer/Twitter marketeer Scott Bourne:

"I have to say you do have big brass balls - enjoying the Drobo I gave you while you disrespect me for doing Twitter giveaways?

I think that says a bunch more about you than me. Perhaps you'd like to return the Drobo I gave you - then I'd at least respect you even if I disagree with you. Now I just pity you.

s"

He sent this to me because I retweeted a request for the people of Twitter to cease endlessly retweeting Mr. Bourne's marketing messages:

Here's the tweet I sent out earlier today:

RT @ShawnKing: Twitterverse: Please stop pimping/RT/working for Scott Bourne. ktxbye (I think I've got to agree here -AMR)

See, the thing is... I stopped following Mr. Bourne on Twitter a while ago for just this reason. I was seeing way too many promotional tweets from him and found myself constantly getting annoyed by this. This was not an easy decision for me to make since I did win a Drobo because I happened to be following him on Twitter.

[Though, I suspect the Drobo did not come from Mr. Bourne's personal stash of Drobos. In fact it was sent to me directly from the company that makes the Drobo. Also, I won the Drobo via a completely random drawing from Mr. Bourne's flock of Twitter followers - I don't think Mr. Bourne personally chose my name because he liked my Twitter avatar or something like that.]

I stayed with Mr. Bourne on Twitter as long as I could before I just got too tired of seeing the promotional tweets all the time. So today I retweeted, and agreed with, the sentiment that too many people are re-tweeting his giveaway tweets, many of those people I follow too. So, while I ended up un-following Mr. Bourne because of his promos, I still ending up getting flooded with Bourne Spam. I don't really want to un-follow all those people (many of whom I like and respect), but there is a part of me that wishes they would just stop re-tweeting his marketing messages. It's like third-hand smoke.

I'm not sure how Mr. Bourne feels "disrespected" by me voicing my opinion about his marketing techniques; I'm surprised that he cannot take a few slings and arrows in a public forum. I'm also surprised by the tone of his email to me. The fact that he thinks that I owe him something because he "gave" me a Drobo makes me wonder about how he respects other people. Just because I give a hobo a buck doesn't mean the guy has to like me. Sounds like he is use to people just bending to his whim or whatever. Well, if he thinks that just because I was a random recipient of a product he's endorsing, I should take it up the ass... all I can wonder if he's ever been tea-bagged by a set of big brass balls!?

BTW, I'm keeping the Drobo, thank you very much. I enjoy it every day. We sing and dance together, laughing away the worries of the world. Oh, Drobo, how I could not live without you. Every day we are together I am thankful. My life is complete now that I have a Drobo...

Antonio Rosario

P.S. Curious how Mr. Bourne saw my tweet today since it only mentioned his name and not his Twitter user name... Someone is doing vanity searches perhaps?

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