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I wrote about this a year ago on my blog: https://planiverse.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/advertising-to-⅔-fake-users-on-facebook/ https://planiverse.wordpress.com/
by chromaton 7y ago
I wrote about this a year ago on my blog:
https://planiverse.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/advertising-to-⅔-fake-users-on-facebook/ https://planiverse.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/advertising-to-⅔...
In short, the fake accounts had several factors in common:
- No or almost no public posts.
- The only public posts being an update of the cover photo and profile photo in 2017.
- The profile photos tended not to be headshots: a photo of a cup of coffee, say, or a landscape.
- Between 20-100 friends.
- Friends tended to be in places like India, the Middle East, or Southeast Asia.
- Their gender didn’t match the name or photo about half the time: a “Martha” referred to as “he” by Facebook, for example.