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Who Tweeted? The Appearance of Social Media

WHO TWEETED? The Appearance of Social Media A Brief History of Twitter tutte- twitter Twttr.com registered March 08, 2006 Twttr founded → March 21, 2006 Twitter official launch First official logo + April 20, 2006 Purchased twitter.com for $7,500 + Summer, 2006 SXSW MARCH 9-18 2007 AUSTIN TX Verified Account" BETA akrails The earliest fake account akrails dates back to Twitter takes off during SXSW. from 20k to 60k tweets per day March, 2007 "Verified Accounts" launched January 15, 2007 + June 11, 2009 A Promoted by Walgreens twitter Twitter began requiring OAuth authentication Twitter launches Promoted Tweets Follow your interests y et y prti August 31, 2010 July 28, 2011 twitter Second logo with "Larry the Bird" September 14, 2010 Twitter.com homepage redesign re-launched → April 20, 2011 Third logo "Tvwitter Bird" June 5, 2012 11,283 AT LEAST 72,000 Twitter users have purchased more than fake followers. Dealers of fake followers can make as much as $800 if they control (1) 20,000 ake accounts. a day OMG! MONEY FOR 7 WEEKS of selling followings Why would somebody buy followers? Herd Mentality: Everyone else follows 'em, so shall I! Popularity Contest: I want ALL the friends! Anonymous Spam: I would never say this as me.but as @krails: "BUY CRAPPY CRAP" Who's faking it? You CNN f Tube OBANA DIDEN Breaking news Lady Gaga @ladygaga Britney Spears @britneyspears @barackobama @youtube CNN Breaking @cnnbrk ESPN @espn Facebook @facebook Justin Bieber Katy Perry @katyperry Barack Obama YouTube Twitter @justinbieber @twitter 28,839,110 27,176,769 25,678,355 19,830,606 18,964,766 15,688,501 12,837,573 8,585,934 5,112,022 4,500,928 followers followers followers followers followers followers followers followers followers followers Fake 27% 29% 30% 31% 32% 32% 34% 33% 37% 39% Inactive 38% 42% 38% 40% 41% 42% 41% 43% Good 40% 42% 28% 29% 26% 26% 33% 31% 23% 27% 27% 19% 8,074,950 7,881,263 are GOOD 6,676,372 5,155,957 6,258,372 4,863,435 2,952,641 2,318,202 are GOOD 1,380,245 are GOOD 855,176 are GOOD are GOOD are GOOD are GOOD are GOOD are GOOD are GOOD Fakers percentages determined with: www.statuspeople.com Fake Inactive Good Numbers as of August 28, 2012 at 08:30AM EST Politicians fake it too July 21 2012, there was a 17% increase in Mitt Romney's followers in one day. 4 out of 5 of those new follower accounts were created less than three months earlier. 07/ 20/12 07 / 21/12 673,002 > 789,924 followers followers one in four of those accounts had never sent a single tweet. One in 10 of the accounts have been suspended. ----- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - Businesses make strange bedfellows 15% 15% 18% 31% twitcam 43% 28% 33 Instagram @instagram TwitPic @twitpic twitcam @twitcam Google @goog Twitter Es 39% @twitter_es 8,372,543 followers 8,081,726 40% 9,862,264 4,956,611 5,220,100 followers followers followers followers 42% 1,479,339 are GOOD 4,772,349 are GOOD 2,577,437 1,513,829 are GOOD 3,475,142 15% 57% 43% 52% 29% are GOOD are GOOD What are the costs? Ways fake follower dealers try to make fake profiles harder to detect • Randomly following some famous and some average people, • Posting tweets grabbed from the Twitter stream. "This is one reason that the prices of followers vary dramatically on eBay and other online websites, ranging from $2 to $55 per 1,000 followers," Jason Ding, a research scientist at Barracuda explains in a blog post. "The higher the price is, the more real these followers look" 18$ Followers are being sold out in the open. They can even be bought on Ebay and Google Shopping. The average price of buying 1000 followers. There are may results for "buy twitter followers where people can buy (fake) followers. 53% of abusers (those users who bought followers) have 4,000 to 26,000 followers The average number of following for a fake account is 1,799 Sign up for B2B Social Selling Tips SOCIAL SELLING SocialSellingU.com presented by OInsideView UNIVERSITY owered by InsideView or follow us on twitter: @SocialSellingU sources: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/71155326.html http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/08/04/230402.html http://forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/16/how-cheap-is-it-to-buy-fake-twitter-followers/ http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/08/10/study-shows-tens-thousands-purchased-fake-twitter-followers/ http://web-kreation.com (twitter bird) DEVELOPED BY N NOWSOURCING

Who Tweeted? The Appearance of Social Media

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Everyone from presidential candidates to celebrities to your favorite websites have "fake followers".

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