Hummingbird for Twitter, the real scoop!
First hummingbird is a twitter application that is used by marketing professionals to mass follow and mass remove followers who don’t follow you back. on twitter. The idea is to build your friend list. The problem is this software is RIDICULOUSLY priced at $200. Their explaination of the price is “it allows us to pay our affiliates more for better promotion”. After testing the software most people don’t want to pay $200 so they remove it! (Keep reading)
Now…
Many software includes spyware, adware, or malware that is actually legal. You sign agreements for it when you accept terms of the software (for example MyWebSearch is legal malware).
Should a company be stopped from promoting removal tools? Should adware companies be told that sense a user legally agreed to install the software that it is a violation to create software which COMPLETELY removes it?
Now you are thinking “yeah but…” right? But nothing. Hummingbird (and a few other select softwares my tool works with) leaves unneeded registry keys in your system after it has been uninstalled. This is how they track if your trial has ended.
The problem as EVERYONE knows is useless keys left by uninstalled applications eventually slow your computer start and load times. This is why registry cleaners are so popular! They remove keys to missing dlls, remove keys left behind by uninstalled applications, remove BHO keys, etc.
This is EXACTLY what my hummingbird removal tool does. It removes all the left over keys from certain applications, in this case hummingbird. When you uninstall hummingbird it leaves registry keys on your system to help them keep track of your “VIP’s” (people you don’t want the software to remove even if they don’t follow you back) as well as their trial counter.
If you uninstall the software, these keys are useless. My tool removes them.
If you look at a software like Twitter FriendAdder, they DON’T do this. They use keys already in your registry to track how many times you have clicked their software and you only get to open it 3 times. The only fix to that is to reinstall windows and reset your click counts, this can’t (legally) be done with a tool!
am NOT pirating software (although many who use my tool are). My registry cleaner DOES reset the hummingbird trial counter, however that is NOT illegal! They need a better way of tracking their trial and need to STOP leaving useless information in the windows registry! For those who are interested, a trial of hummingbird can be downloaded a http://twitaddict.com/hummingbird/wiki/index.php?title=Download.
If you are interested in my hummingbird removal tool for $7 drop me an email 00purple@gmail.com.
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