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Interesting concept. Wouldn't this encourage people to create spam accounts to follow people to force them to pay / pay more?
by rorosaurus 10y ago
Interesting concept. Wouldn't this encourage people to create spam accounts to follow people to force them to pay / pay more?
- goatherders 10y agoMaybe. But then that would be the first time a Twitter had a spam problem to deal with. ;)
- RileyJames 10y agoThere's no direct benefit to the spammer. More effort would go into pruning spammers (from those who are paying, spam protection services) and if twitter credited their account for any payments related to an account marked as spam it seems like it could work. Definitely an interesting model.
- cuchoi 10y agoYou are right but Twitter benefit from Spammer and the people that sells followers. They have no incentives to go after them. Any person that uses Twitter knows that many of their followers are bots/Spam.
- lazyjones 10y agoThat's very similar to the situation with click-based advertising in search engines. I wouldn't say that it isn't working for everyone involved (except those who pay the ads).
- ekianjo 10y agoOr encourage Twitter to generate fake accounts by themselves to adjust their revenue curve...
- josu 10y agoFiduciary duty
- ahartman00 10y agotrue, but see wells fargo. though they do seem to be paying for it. http://fortune.com/2017/01/13/wells-fargo-fake-accounts-scandal-closing-branches-earnings/ http://fortune.com/2017/01/13/wells-fargo-fake-accounts-scan...