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Almost all of these 'influencers' have fake followers. If they didn't buy them, the majority of their followers are auto following bots or people using bots to
by pentae 8y ago
Almost all of these 'influencers' have fake followers. If they didn't buy them, the majority of their followers are auto following bots or people using bots to auto-follow to get more followers. Working inside this industry it's remarkable how little reach 99% of these people have.
Who wouldn't want to get luxury hotel stays for free, have brands send you free stuff, or get paid to promote something? It's an incredible deception and many are falling for it.
- rwmj 8y agoFrom the article: > "We have to filter out influencers who have basically bought bots. There's a lot of those these days."
- davidmurdoch 8y agoThere are companies[0] that scan a user's following to try to determine if they are primarily bots, dead accounts, occasional users, or active. [0] http://blog.fohr.co/post/2017/9/20/searching-by-verified-authentic-following http://blog.fohr.co/post/2017/9/20/searching-by-verified-aut...