Making a dollar from a Twitter rent-a-crowd

There always seems to be someone ready to make a quid by gaming the system. uSocial reckons it can sell you Twitter followers. Register now to win a Cannon EOS 500D uSocial is diversifying from promoting web pages through Digg and other social bookmarking services to delivering Twitter followers in bulk. The company uses the term "artificial popularity services" to describe its activities. But then it also boasts of ignoring a cease and desist order from Digg. (If you think you detect a negative vibe here, you're right.) "We have gotten some bad feedback about some of our services," said uSocial CEO Leon Hill, who went on to claim "we do get a lot more positive than negative response". I can see the point of buying votes on recommendation sites such as Digg. A page that manages to rise above the background noise level can... [read full story]                    

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