Sentences with phrase «by fake followers»

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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.

By 9 a.m. EST Friday morning, he reached 277,000 followers — his progress hampered somewhat by fake Warren Buffett accounts that diverted thousands of his fans to the incorrect Twitter sitBy 9 a.m. EST Friday morning, he reached 277,000 followers — his progress hampered somewhat by fake Warren Buffett accounts that diverted thousands of his fans to the incorrect Twitter sitby fake Warren Buffett accounts that diverted thousands of his fans to the incorrect Twitter site.

Despite rising criticism of social media companies and growing scrutiny by elected officials, the trade in fake followers has remained largely opaque.

Instead, Broussard's fake «scoop» gets amplified by a retweet from ESPN's @SportsCenter account, fooling its 3.5 million followers that its high - paid NBA reporter is breaking news and not simply checking email.

The behaviour of the Linux / Moose followers is just sophisticated enough to evade immediate detection by social networks» fake account filters.

However, while this might suggest to the passing follower that ALL the app's profiles are real, the document clarifies that the legal certificate pertains to the creation of fake profiles by the company itself.

After all, they'd taken such glee in exploiting foolish followers of Christ by strategically faking everything from appropriately - pious poses to the right religious buzzwords.