August 23, 2012

You can buy Twitter followers — a penny apiece.

It's easy!

"There’s a tremendous cachet associated with having a large number" of followers, and real readers might become interested in you because you've got all those followers. But the cachet depends on people believing that the followers are real people who chose to follow you.

There's a tool, Fake Follower Check, that purports to be able to tell what percentage of a Twitter-writer's followers are fake. It says:
... 71 percent of Lady Gaga’s nearly 29 million followers are “fake” or “inactive.” So are 70 percent of President Obama’s nearly 19 million followers.

But Twitter is starting to clamp down. In April, it filed suit in federal court in San Francisco against five spammers, including those who create fake Twitter followers....
A court is supposed to save them? 

12 comments:

Erik Robert Nelson said...

Twitter followers as social media currency has long been debased. No one takes the numbers seriously anymore (if they ever did). It remains what it is because there are few easy metrics in online presence measurement. It's a joke, and any serious marketing expert knows it, even as they talk up getting you more followers.

It's an easy way to justify marketing bills, but as an actual marketing tool, Twitter is damned near useless. Too many fake followers, too much spam, very few tweets that aren't generated automatically. As a community tool, it's great. For marketing ... not so much.

wyo sis said...

The obvious thought is...you get what you pay for.

Pogo said...

That explains Chrisitanity.

Jesus bought the theoretical maximum of fake followers.

Lem said...

70 percent of President Obama’s nearly 19 million followers are “fake” or “inactive.”

You mean they didn't get there on their own?

Lem said...

Oh Pogo... lol.

yashu said...

70 percent of President Obama’s nearly 19 million followers are “fake” or “inactive.”

Wow, haha, how embarrassing.

elkh1 said...

He did not build his followers, fakers did.

Can't Twitter automatically delete inactive followers? Set a three months, one year, two year time limit for inactivities?

Kathy said...

When I got onto Twitter a year or two ago - I kind of messed up and blocked all followers. Everyone told me this was a mistake.....and now, it's like.....too late for me. I have no followers.

At last I find a solution....Thanks Ann :-)

Buy Real Marketing said...

Here something is new to read and also some very good information...Please keep me updated as much as possible.

Buy Twitter Followers

Ganesh kartik said...

This is so cool! thanks for sharing
buy twitter followers
buy soundcloud plays

Alex zender said...

Good stuff, I anticipate reading even more.

buy cheap twitter followers
buy twitter followers

jenifer lopez said...

Thanks admin.
Social media is a great power and biggest community now a day. twitter is most popular social site in the world.So buy twitter followers and enjoy your community.