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From the article: "In an email, Mr. Leal said that buying followers for his business generated more than enough new revenue to pay for the expense. He was not
by kawera 9y ago
From the article:
"In an email, Mr. Leal said that buying followers for his business generated more than enough new revenue to pay for the expense. He was not worried about being penalized by Twitter, Mr. Leal said. “Countless public figures, companies, music acts, etc. purchase followers,” he wrote. “If Twitter was to purge everyone who did so there would be hardly any of them on it.”
- TomK32 9y ago> “If Twitter was to purge everyone who did so there would be hardly any of them on it.” Ban a few, even just for a few weeks, and the others will stop. That's how society works most of the time.
- robryan 9y agoGoogle made websites manually go through and disavow low quality inbound links to have ranking penalties removed. Twitter could suspend people and have them disavow followers. People having to clean out hundreds of thousands of fake followers would probably kill the practice pretty quickly.