Confession time.
I am actually impressed. With a certain viral marketing “thing”. And the confession is that I didn’t think I would live to see this day. 
Ok, I’m like you, really - I cringe visibly at the sales letters that have text highlighted in yellow, and I hit the “back” button as soon as I see a picture of a new car or someone holidaying at the beach. So generally, I am an unlikely customer victim (?) at the receiving end of a sales letter, or any “Dear {Firstname}”/”Do you want…?” kind of letter, for that matter.
To put things in perspective, I must describe what sub-category I’d fall into in, lets say a company database that classifies it’s targets according to location, age, intelligence (or the lack of it thereof) quotient, and so on. You can skip the next paragraph if such background is of no interest to you, and get to the meat.
I’m not a n00b, not entirely, at least, if you will excuse the lack of modesty. I’ve been prowling around, lapping things up for close to four years now, and given the pace of virtual reality, that may actually even be considered non-trivial. I also never found marketing (on the internet or otherwise) an appealing business - I am the kind who’ll accept that it is something that requires skill, sophistication, and creativity (it’s one of those art-and-analysis things, IMO); but I’ll say this with a this-isn’t-my-cup-of-tea expression on my face. I would be skeptical about making a career of it, thankfully.
A couple of days ago, while doing some idle browsing, I was led to this website called http://tweetergetter.com. All my intuitive skepticism crept in as I went through (yet) another pitch with bold claims (What If You Could Press Just One Button & Automatically Start Getting 1000’s Of Legitimate New Twitter Followers On Autopilot… Even If Nobody Knows Who You Are Now?*). This time around, however, a random sense of mischievous curiosity crept in through some parallel neural network. Here’s someone asking me to retweet a single (admittedly marketty and slightly impersonal sounding) message. Since I was brand new to twitter and had one and a half followers, I figured I’d nothing to lose, not even a reputation (I know what I think of tweeters whose tweets read like they’ve come from a viral marketing website… let’s not get into this).
Now - to cut a long story short - I “fell for it” (although I did ignore the rest of the website then). So what happened? Well, let’s say that’s a story for next time