Fake Twitter Followers Become Multimillion-Dollar Business – The New York Times gets your 1,000 fake followers, $9 per month buys 5 retweets a day. Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week.
Fake it 'til You Make it" is No Longer a Good Strategy We all know what happens in Google if you fake it now. You want your content to be the editorial content that makes the news. In this new world where human engagement is a growing factor, how...
Many things are easy to automate and fake, but doing social media well? Like other networks, Pinterest is plagued by spam and fake accounts, but after the links from pins were nofollowed things calmed down a bit.
Was Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise's marriage fake? Last year it was all about Kim Kardashian (was her wedding fake? Ask.com also revealed top news and political search terms and questions. Top News Search Terms s IPO were among the biggest news...
Also, for the top 10 followers on Twitter, multiple news sites have reported the number of fake followers to be around 27 percent. Twitter and Facebook are starting to crack down on fake accounts and visitors, but the numbers are staggering and...
The figures are good news for Google but it is still has a long way to go catch up with Facebook which has over 900 million users, although more than 83 million profiles are thought to be fake. Google has announced it is to acquire imaging platform...
If we find fake accounts, we disable them immediately,” a Facebook spokesperson told SEW. Facebook revealed, mere days after the Limited Run story, that they identified 83 million fake accounts. Just because there are fake accounts does not...
It probably doesn’t hurt to generate some über-happy, heartwarming content in the wake of Facebook’s problem-riddled IPO, an advertising controversy, and revelations of 83 million fake profiles. Facebook spokesperson Tucker Bounds explains to ABC...
More than 83 million Facebook accounts are fake, the social network has revealed in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Adding these percentages up and applying them to the last reported user base of 955 million means...
Fake it Until You Make it And many more options become available with predictable hypes like the sports venues, but also with less predictable ones like instant YouTube icons, popular gossip, the passing away of famous people, politics and other...
An in-house experiment in which BBC set up one fake Page for one fake company called VirtualBagel, which had exactly zero products. To confirm their suspicion that Facebook ads are being clicked by fake profiles and therefore prove this means...
Our analysis suggests that spammers are using infected computers and a fake mobile signature to try to bypass anti-spam mechanisms in the email platform they're using," said Google. The news follows on from warnings by security firm Trend Micro...
Joseph Pulitzer caused a similar brouhaha back in 1887 when he recruited Nellie Bly, the famous investigative journalist, to fake insanity in order write an exposé of a mental institution for the New York World.
When people hear the word 'synthesizer' they often think 'synthetic' — fake, manufactured, unnatural. At the age of 14, Moog built his first theremin; by 19, he was a published author, having written “The Theremin” for Radio and Television News in...
Beyonce: Did Beyonce fake a baby bump? Kim Kardashian: Was Kim Kardashian's wedding fake? Top News Search Terms and Questions Ask.com’s top questions lists reveal the most commonly searched terms and corresponding questions about celebrities, news...
Searches for the real Royal Wedding outnumbered Kim Kardashian’s fake one by four to one. Top News Events in 2011 The top news story searches of 2011 show which natural disasters, legal trials, and deaths captured the attention of the American masses:
The fake page now appears to have been disabled by Google – but it likely won't be the last. News publisher Al Jazeera English is running ads on Twitter that appear on searches for Google+ in the hopes of increasing its own follower numbers.
Fake search pages with PPC ads Fake blogs with PPC ads, identified by copied/scraped or nonsensical spun content They may be “highly satisfying, authoritative, entertaining, and/or recent (such as breaking news on a topic).
Attribute Fake News to a Business Page I’m not sure how long users have been able to edit the titles and descriptions of news posts shared by friends, but people should be aware – especially marketers.
He engaged followers/readers, using humor and the charm only a scotch-swilling caricature can, responding to one woman’s tweet questioning his tactics with, “With 9% unemployment it’s starting to feel like putting on a fake mustache
