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Twitter Followers For Sale
Silicon Alley Insider —
twitter shirt An Australian company uSocial is offering to get people Twitter followers for a fee, reports BBC . The going rate is $87 for a 1000 followers. While Twitter itself has yet to convert its hype into revenues, here is yet another business that's making money off the micro-blogging service. uSocial finds its customers potential followers based on location and interests. The company then sends messages to those potential followers informing them about the particular Twitter user they might want to follow. uSocial will keep finding potential users until the customer's ...
uSocial Is Making A Good Amount Of Revenue From Selling Twitter Followers
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... They have a user recommendation system that features only “high profile” users such as CNN, BBC, Ashton Kutcher, Britney Spears, etc.
Being a recommended follower is worth money. Back in March, Jason Calacanis offered Twitter $250,000 to be a recommended follower. At one point, iJustine took cupcakes to the Twitter headquarters and became a recommended follower shortly after. Its a dog eat dog world when it comes to marketing yourself.
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You Can’t Buy Friends. Can You Buy Twitter Followers?
Technologizer —
... . $87 will supposedly get you a thousand new followers; $372.75 will get you ten thousand; $3479 will get you an army of 100,000 new fans. The company’s site doesn’t seem to have much in the way of explanation of how it finds followers, but a BBC story on the service says that uSocial identifies Twitter users whose interests seem to line up with that of the uSocial customer in question, then shoots them a message inviting them to follow the customer. It’s up to the prospective follower to decide whether he or she wants to follow or not. ...
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Twitter followers 'can be bought'
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Twitter users who lack an audience for their messages can now buy followers. The BBC reports.
Australian social media marketing company uSocial is offering a paid service that finds followers for users of the micro-blogging service.
Followers are available in blocks starting at $87 (£53) for 1,000. The biggest block uSocial is selling is 100,000 people.
... USocial estimated that each follower on Twitter was worth about 10 cents a month to a company that got them to sign up. The money would be made from adverts and sales on ...
