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Making and Selling Imaginary Friends (aka Twitter Follower Flogging)

Jul 2, 2009
 
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For any company tempted to spend money on buying Twitter followers like this below ( from the BBC ): Australian social media marketing company uSocial is offering a paid service that finds followers for users of the micro-blogging service. Followers are available in blocks starting at $87 (£53) for 1,000. The biggest block uSocial is selling is 100,000 people. USocial said businesses and individuals were queuing up to use its follower finding service. Leon Hill, chief executive of uSocial, said the company finds potential followers by searching Twitter and working out what individual users are interested in. It also profiles where people are so it can more closely match users with those they might want to follow. USocial then sends messages to potential followers telling them about the new Twitter user they might want to... [read full story]                    

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Twitter followers for sale by the boatload

tech.co.uk Jul 4, 2009
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