Although I’m definitely against buying fake social media followers and feel it’s both a bad personal and professional move, I feel obligated to share this bit of evidence in support of buying Twitter followers in limited amounts. It’s only one case but its key point is that buying fake followers can give your organic following a boost if you keep prudent limits on what you buy.
I’m Against Buying Fake Followers But It Seems To Work Sometimes
My stance against buying a fake social media following is pretty clear. But it’s also partly been based on the belief that doing so can set you up for an eventual painful drop and/or expose you to ridicule.
The reality is that those getting exposed are typically overdoing their buys of followers. Suddenly they have hundreds of thousands or even millions of new followers or media views/listens prompting closer examination in some cases. That can lead to fakery being exposed and the false assumption that fakes will usually fail.
But cheating works. Payola worked and may be working today. People cheat the charts because they can kickstart careers that way.
So, as much as I hate to admit it, fakery can win the day or, in the case of one data scientist, significantly boost one’s Twitter following.
A Positive Account of Buying Fake Twitter Followers
Gilad Lotan is a data scientist at betaworks. He gives an interesting and reasonably detailed account of buying fake Twitter followers and what happened in the process.
My only quibble is that he assumes that the paid followers that are following him are only following other accounts that paid to be followed. It’s likely that just as Facebook fakes are following legitimate accounts to look legitimate, so too would Twitter fakes.
That said it’s a nice article that’s well worth a read. But here’s the key point. …read more
Source: Hypebot.com
