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uSocial Sells Twitter Followers By the Thousand
bfire writes to tell us that marketing firm uSocial has decided to apply a new monetization scheme to the Twitter service by providing packages of followers for purchase. "According to the firm, a single Twitter follower could be worth $0.10 a month. It is selling followers in various packages, starting at 1,000 for $87, which is delivered in seven days, and going all the way up to 100,000 followers at a cost of $3,479, delivered over a year." This is just the latest in a number of different exploits and problems of the Twitter universe as individuals try to subvert a popular tool into a self-serving device.
What is actually this twitter thing?
SO now we know what the current price of a twit is!
10 cents a month.
One day those sock puppet accounts will become self aware. We'd all be in mortal peril, except they'll be stymied by somehow stumbling across craigslist personals, and a mobius of spam will cause the system to be erased from the timeline.
Do they also sell gmail invites? I think I have a few of those under the mattress.
uSocial?
iWon't.
Burma Shave!
1. All nerds try to compensate their lack of FB friends by buying fake twitter followers. FB is deserted and closes down.
2. uSocial tries to save money & starts to sell all followers to several customers.
3. uSocial has to create 50 million fake followers since Kim Jong Il wants that many, but the North Koreans have only 5 PCs.
4. All the aforementioned outcasts get investigated by the NSA for their connection to Kim Jong Il, and get send to Gitmo as long as it's still open.
5. The US collapses because of the lack of IT personnel and a not properly disinfected telephone.
6. Castro takes over Gitmo and makes it the worlds most secure & cheap IT call center.
7. India collapses too, because of unemployment.
8. China buys India & the US.
Better start learning Mandarin!
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Dead or alive?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I don't use twitter but signed up just to reserve my name...
Damnit... *I* wanted to register sl149q!
You wouldn't consider selling it..?
Heck, I know a guy that will follow you for free! Sure, he peeps in though your windows at night and for the most part he's harmless.
A dating service for imaginary friends! How... fucked up actualy.
Well, lets figure it out right here and now eh?
First, take a perfectly basic function of some Internet feature or other that is already available to everyone without there being any need for your proposed service to exist. Lets think... here's one: web pages can have various colors on them! Now dilute that feature right down to just the barest, minimal, infinitesimally useful level... a web page that is just a blank space of a user configurable color. Crippling this basic functionality that folks had access to already makes your service seem edgy, sleek and modern! Giving our default color palette some snappy names like "emo purple" or "douchey green" will make users feel like there's a new cultural or linguistic fad here to get stuck into.
Slap on a "friends" feature to give it a little of that social networking pizazz and add a nonsense-word domain name of the type that you might overhear on an episode of The Tellytubbies, lets say, "flibubu" and you've got yourself a vehicle capable of launching a whole new 6-month-long Internet fad!
And there you have it. What a time to be alive!
OMG!!! Ponies!!!
Great article. Totally tweeting this.
Attack its weak point for massive damage!
I find your ideas intriguing and would like you follow you on twitter.
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Stay tuned for some shock and awe coming right up after this messages!
It's already happened.
omg. twitter made me a gay :(
What I don't get is who came up with this metric that a Twitter follower is worth 10 cents. I just don't believe it.