In a new study, two P&G brands last month ranked among the top 10 in using paid influencers
with fake followers.
Not exact matches
Topping the study's list: Ritz - Carlton,
with a whopping 78 percent of
fake followers for its influencers.
I'm the sole leader of a profitable organization, who regularly pretends to communicate
with our dead leader, to give
fake hope to my millions of
followers.
@Tope we have a massive problem
with Wenger
followers, we suspect you guys are undercover Spud supporters wanting our Great Club to fail, so please take your
fake asses away from this club #WengerOut #Dictator #GiveUsOurClubBack #COYG
I love imagining Durant coming up
with the
fake names, then the passwords, then the email addresses for the
fake names and the passwords, then logging out of his real account to log into his
fake accounts, then tracking down the people
with two
followers that talk shit about him, and then talk shit back.
That click - fraud dilutes the effect of Facebook advertising, filling a Page's
follower list
with fake Likes that yield little or no engagement.
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.
They usually have
fake social media account
with very few friends or
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).
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.
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.
With so many users, there are bound to be some fake accounts, so today Instagram is introducing verified badges for celebrities, athletes and brands with tons of follow
With so many users, there are bound to be some
fake accounts, so today Instagram is introducing verified badges for celebrities, athletes and brands
with tons of follow
with tons of
followers.
The blogger says his tweets were being reported and his account was being spammed
with hundreds of thousands of
fake followers, and he thinks Bitfinex is behind it.
In a statement posted to the r / buttcoin subreddit, Bitfinex» ed pointed the blame squarely at the cryptocurrency exchange, writing: «After Failing to spam my Twitter
with 400,000
fake followers, Bitfinex hires bots to mass - report my tweets and accounts.»