There is a suspicion of «
fake follower numbers» as well as a view that their followers are not actually that engaged or loyal, meaning there will be less of an influence.
Not exact matches
The New York Times recently reported how many companies, brand ambassadors, celebrities, and even journalists purchased «
fake» Twitter
followers as a means to inflate their social media
numbers.
Truthful tweets took six times as long as
fake ones to spread to 1500 people across Twitter — in large part because falsehoods were 70 per cent more likely to be retweeted than the truth, even after accounting for the posters» account age, activity level and
number of
followers (Science, doi.org/gc3jt6).
Don't lie about your blog
numbers or use
fake followers on social media.
They're also only allowing people with verfied accounts to manage Pages with a large
numbers of
followers, making it harder to administer a page with a
fake account.
And it's requiring verification for all pages that have large
numbers of
followers, making it «much harder for people to administer a Page using a
fake account, which is strictly against our policies.»
Additionally, the company also will soon require people who run Facebook pages with large
numbers of
followers to go through an authorization process, as it looks to make it harder for
fake accounts to spread divisive content that has the potential to go viral.
The BJP leader said the
number of Gandhi's Twitter
followers had shot up recently and wondered if it was due to the services of the firm that he achieved this «
fake popularity».