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New company, uSocial, lets you buy status on social networks

Jul 4, 2009
 
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Section: Web , Web 2.0 , Websites A new company is claiming it can offer background support on all the top social networking sites like Twitter and Digg - for a price. uSocial says that if you are willing to fork over some cold hard cash they can boost your Twitter followers or Diggs by about a thousand in 7 days and 100,000 in a year. Their guarantee says that if they fail to do so they will give you an additional 20% for free. So how much cash are they asking for? Anywhere from $87 for 1000 new followers to a nearly $3500 for 100,000. How do they find said followers? They search user interests to find ones that match yours then ask those people to follow or friend you. Hmm.... [read full story]                    

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