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selling twitter followers to companies, or people that need a boost

• ryandrake 12y ago
  I understand markuns's theory that it would benefit Twitter (ad views), but why would I, if I were a Twitter user, care if I have 10,000 bots "following" my messages? Bots don't buy anything. Do Twitterers get paid by the follower or something? (not being facetious, I'm honestly curious, as someone who does not use Twitter or Facebook or any of these other social promotion services)
  • ceequof 12y ago
    The more followers you have, the greater your social status.
  • photorized 12y ago
    If you are a popular TV show, your social tv rating ends up in your Nielsen reports, enabling you to charge more for advertising. Ad agency gets paid for their promotional work, etc. As an individual with lots of followers, you could advertise paid gigs, like "I will mention your product to my 100k followers for $10". Then somebody like Kim Kardashian can charge $100k or more per "endorsement". There's a whole vaporware "value chain" here.
  • clay_to_n 12y ago
    There's a very real benefit to having a lot of followers. The user withdavidle posted this above, which is a great article: https://medium.com/i-data/fake-friends-with-real-benefits-eec8c4693bd3 https://medium.com/i-data/fake-friends-with-real-benefits-ee...