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Not saying that the "dead souls" trend isn't real, but I don't actually think these accounts themselves are what LinkedIn is using to boost their user numbers.
by ianstormtaylor 13y ago
Not saying that the "dead souls" trend isn't real, but I don't actually think these accounts themselves are what LinkedIn is using to boost their user numbers. The goal for the dead souls is to boost activation by getting more and more real people to create accounts. Still the same motivation, but I doubt their long-term goal is to be counting tons of fake users as users. It's sooner to find new (potentially scam-y) ways to trick people into making accounts.
- grey-area 13y agoI didn't mean to imply that, but rereading the post I see why people have read it that way. That wasn't really the objection I have to this, more that a focus on user numbers growing at all costs leads to all sorts of evil activity like using ghost users to try to trick people into spamming their contacts list.