Sentences with phrase «fake followers on»

Don't lie about your blog numbers or use fake followers on social media.

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.

Not exact matches

But earlier this summer, shortly after Gingrich announced his candidacy on Twitter, a report surfaced that Gingrinch's camp paid for non-active (i.e. fake) Twitter followers.

Fake follower counts are based on Points North scanning followers of influencers to sort out such things as accounts making comments in languages that don't make sense for the content or the influencer, or accounts making the exact same comments across multiple influencers and posts.

Despite that little flap over potentially fake Twitter followers, perhaps he's mobilized an internet army that's poised to act on his behalf?

Armed with their empire of fake accounts, the botnet operator — whose identity is not known — advertises followers for sale on platforms including Instagram and Twitter.

I am trying an experiment to not tweet as much and haven't even noticed a difference on sales... Most of the accounts are fake now and unless you take the time to click on the website address on the profile... you will just have a bunch of bogus followers.

And we saw that for example with the BP British Petroleum oil crisis, where BP realized that after the oil spill everybody was talking about them on Twitter, everybody, and there was even a fake Twitter account parodying BP's response (@BPGlobalPR — still active with 182,033 followers).

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.

He tweeted a poll on September 8th, asking whether followers thought the shutdown news was fake or real; so far, 83 percent have voted that they believe the news is fake.