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Blackhat Method for Increasing Your Twitter Followers
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Published: Dec 08, 2008 - 01:46 am
Story Found By: yetanotherben 1269 Days ago
Category: SEM
When you create a new profile on twitter, and the account is banned, twitter’s system does not remove it from the following count of others. So if you were to create thousands of fake profiles, and follow people could artificially inflate their follower counts without having to go through the trouble of finding real friends. Twitter needs to take a more active role in managing and supervising their community.
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from Psychobel 1269 Days ago #
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simple but clear thinking.

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from zigojacko 1269 Days ago #
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Hehe, interesting to know... Let’s see how popular I can make myself look then... :p

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from yetanotherben 1269 Days ago #
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One of the best things about Twitter has been it’s speed in growth, but also it’s own achiles heel.  It’s provided so many benefits for a variety of different uses, but needs to get on top of some of these exploits super sharp to continue it’s growth sccessfully and continue to make it a good place to be...otherwise alternatives will slowly start gobbling-up market share.

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from zigojacko 1269 Days ago #
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Agreed, fastest growing social media platform at the moment Twitter is... It doesn’t take long before any flaws or loop holes in the platform are exploited, either through hacking, spamming or other means. It won’t be long before the mentioned is halted I wouldn’t have thought, especially once it has been brought into the public light.

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from artsycrafter 1266 Days ago #
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What would the benefit be of having fake followers anyway? That would only be a number, not actual contacts (which is a far better benefit)

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from yetanotherben 1266 Days ago #
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@artsycrafter you’re right that it’s better to have actual contacts on your Twitter books, but as we know that social media profiles can act as business assets, it’s worth noting (especially as people might not actually count through their followers list and buy from simply looking at this stat)http://sphinn.com/story/88381Or the original article:http://www.justmeandmy.com/could-you-buy-or-sell-social-media-profiles

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from leslieclark 1266 Days ago #
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Every emerging platform is going to have it’s weaknesses exploited - and this fact will soon be the bane of Twitters existence.  I am curious to see how Twitter will react in "fixing" these issues without losing what made it the giant that it is.  However, sometimes I really wish I didn’t have ethics - I could make myself a social media god with tricks like this.

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