> You´ve not been social engineered - you´ve received a post that was personalised for you.
That's your interpretation, mine is different. You've used your reputation to get me to visit your site, specifically not the text of those links. You've written interesting stuff in the past and I wondered what this was about. (edit: reputation+title = click, reputation alone or title alone would probably not have been a click, but that's after the fact).
> My further posts are no longer going to be manipulated in that manner
So you say.
> well, till I think of something interesting to try out again.
See, that's what I mean. You've abused your reputation in order to do your experiment, and you've succeeded in your goal. Now I'm going to be more wary, and will think twice before I click, no matter how enticing the title. In fact, the more enticing the title the less chance that I'll click because that will make it more likely that you are pulling another stunt.
> The only difference between what I did and what lifehacker or any such site does is that I explained afterwards.
A good magician never explains his tricks to the audience.
I know that that is a fine line here, but even though I'm sure you have good intentions and you are in a way making up for tricking people by explaining it I can't help the feelings that it creates.
Trust is a fragile thing, and in some sense you have broken that trust.
You've taken 'link bait' or 'title bait' one step further and created 'article bait'. That's an achievement in its own right, and I find it quite impressive that you managed to pull this off but at the same time you've shown yourself more than willing and capable of doing this with intent.
> I don´t write to gain twitter followers
No, but you write "My aim in both cases was to increase my name recognition. I wanted the right people to be aware of "Max Klein". "
If twitter followers are a measure of that then we can use that to gauge your success and effectively you were trying to gain a following.
That's what social engineering is all about. It's a hacker term for getting people to do what they otherwise would not do by outsmarting them. That's not limited to getting passwords over the phone by pretending to be the sysadmin.