Comments on: Buying and Selling Facebook and Twitter Friends

By: Gerald

Gerald — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:59:01 +0000

I understand the point behind buying followers from a business perspective. However, isn’t this cheating? Shouldn’t people have a genuine interest in the information your sharing?

By: David Evans

David Evans — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:17:47 +0000

More people you have to market your service to. Email lists are like this as well and sites sell their customer lists all the time to un-related companies.

By: Ana

Ana — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:30 +0000

Buying friends and followers really sounds absurd. But looking at Twitter and Facebook as a marketing tool, I guess this will really help companies. Although how can it be effective if the friends and followers did not actually want to be your friend or follower? Because if I did not sign up to be your friend or follower, how can you be sure that I will be interested in following your account?

By: Girl Attractor

Girl Attractor — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:57:18 +0000

Yeah I really don’t get the point in “buying” friends and fans. I’d rather have less “real” friends and followers than a whole lot of fake ones…what’s the point??