Company Claims 80% of Facebook Ad Clicks Are From Bots

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday July 30, 2012 @10:24AM from the where-are-all-the-people dept.

pitchpipe writes "A start-up company, Limited Run, claims that 80% of its ad clicks on Facebook have been coming from bots and will be deleting their page. Their Facebook page reads: 'Hey everyone, we're going to be deleting our Facebook page in the next couple of weeks, but we wanted to explain why before we do ... We built our own analytic software. Here's what we found: on about 80% of the clicks Facebook was charging us for, JavaScript wasn't on ... The 80% of clicks we were paying for were from bots. That's correct. Bots were loading pages and driving up our advertising costs.'"

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Re:WTF Apple?!? by Grieviant · 2012-07-30 13:27 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Would you shut the fuck up now? You've made half a dozen posts rambling on about how gay porn isn't against the 'official' rules, ignoring the main point that it's an annoyance and should be deleted. You're probably one of those assholes that also thinks the financial sector has done nothing wrong because everything was 'legal'.