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Is it? You can send quite a few spam e-mails with a dollar, but with this, you're guaranteed your message will show up in someones inbox, that it won't be place

• toki5 14y ago
  I realize there's value added to that it's specifically targeted spamming, but, yes, $1 per message is several orders of magnitude more expensive than normal spamming.
  • Retric 14y ago
    Not when you exclude spam that never makes it to a users inbox.
    • Danieru 14y ago
      The marginal cost of sending bulk spam is the opportunity cost of the botnet. $1 a message is a one followed by the zeros you get from your cat playing with the zero key times more expensive than bulk spam.
      • Retric 14y ago
        That's far from accurage. Let's use some vary pessimistic estimates. 183 billion spam messages a day * 1% make it to inbox / 10,000 people world wide making spam / 5$ per person per day = 36,600 messages dollar. Which need to be vary garbled to make it though the inbox so they tend to be instantly ignored by most people. PS: I have seen more detailed estimates that suggest each read spam message costs .1c to 10c depending on how targeted the campaign is.
• glomph 14y ago
  The thing is if $1 guarantees that it shows up in your inbox then peoples inbox space is going to go down in value. People will either stop using facebook messaging, learn to ignore the advert space or stop using facebook.