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uSocial Sells Twitter Followers By the Thousand

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the how-to-know-when-you've-jumped-the-shark dept.

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.

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  1. So what? by onion2k · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The service that uSocial are offering is neither an exploit nor a problem. They're not spamming anyone - they're just letting people have access to a pool of people open to "following back" and taking a fee. It's a total waste of money buying in because the sort of people who'll follow everyone and care about the number of followers they have are generally idiots, but it's not really anything to worry about.

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  2. The true price! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    SO now we know what the current price of a twit is!

    10 cents a month.

  3. yFollow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    uSocial?

    iWon't.

    Burma Shave!

  4. How will it continue? by tokyoahead · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. Already get followers that I don't know by sl149q · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't use twitter but signed up just to reserve my name... What is interesting is that I get one or two "followers" a week, and they are people who I have never heard of. And I suspect that would really have no particular reason to follow my (non-existent) tweets... It could just be accidental but it seems like too many for that.

    1. Re:Already get followers that I don't know by qreeves · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Check their Twits; you'll find more often than not that they're spammers. Some people are just so glad to have a follower they don't realise it.

  6. a single Twitter follower could be worth $0.10 by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to the firm, a single Twitter follower could be worth $0.10 a month.

    Dead or alive?

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