Now, imagine a competitor — brand B — that has 100 real followers, and 100
bought fake followers (for a total of 200 followers).
And some bloggers even resort to
buying fake followers which makes me question their ethics all together.
Just skip
the buying the fake followers and head straight for the fake book purchasers.
Not exact matches
The latest craze of fraudulent exaggeration allows you to
buy bots to tweet your site and acquire
fake robotic
followers to build up your alleged «audience,» a service provided by shady scumbags in foreign lands.
According to the Senior Marketing Director at SocialChorus, Dave Hawley, «Some companies are willing to do anything to get more
followers, fans or likes — from
buying followers to staging a
fake Twitter hack.»
In January, the New York Times published a lengthy report on the business of
buying and selling
fake followers on social media, which focused on a single obscure American company named Devumi.
Creating
fake accounts or collecting information you aren't supposed to have access to, or
buying, selling or transferring accounts (or parts of accounts, e.g. likes and
followers), or logging into other people's accounts.
But one thing has started too, people calling out those who
buy followers, i have gotten a few direct messages from, what i am assuming are
fake accounts calling out other bloggers.
acquire 100 + per month of genuine targeted
followers for your genre (
follower amount may vary, as these are real
followers, not
fake or
bought)
There are easier ways for companies to get the content they want in front of large groups of people: there are banners on websites, the Facebook newsfeed is essentially one long paid ad these days, there's no shortage of publicity that can be gained from an article on TechCrunch or Medium, and
fake Twitter
followers are
bought cheaply.
If you've never
bought followers, it's likely you have a few
fakes and inactive accounts following you anyway.