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You Really Can Buy Friends On the Internet

Posted by samzenpus on from the for-some-definition-of-friend dept.

jendudley writes "A new service is letting you buy swathes of friends on Twitter. $87 buys you 1000 followers, $147 will buy you 2500 followers, $229.60 will buy you 5000 followers, $372.75 will get you 10,000 followers and, should you wish to go for the motherlode, $1491 will buy you 100,000 Twitter followers. Usually, these followers arrive in just 2-4 days. So wrong."

3 comments

  1. Fixed by Fotograf · · Score: 1

    ...you can pay for promise to get friends on twitter.

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  2. so by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    $87
    $147
    $229.60
    $372.75
    $1491

    Do they just really hate round numbers or something?

    1. Re:so by RockDoctor · · Score: 1

      Do they just really hate round numbers or something?

      They probably did use round numbers originally, just not in the currency it's been translated into (and no, I don't keep a mental track of what the USD's exchange rates are as it doesn't matter to me. So guess for yourself what the original currency was.)

      Concerning the actual idea in the summary - why should anyone be surprised? Anything that presents a metric is going to get fools pushing that metric. Some people buy a car with an unnecessarily large engine, others try for a high score at Civilisation. What's news?

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