Meet the man who sells fake Twitter followers

[Jazzy]

These days many people measure their prestige and social standing not just by their real-world influence, but their online one too.

Journalists, politicians and celebrities in particular are known to be competitive about who has the most followers and friends on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. And those with a lot of influence, can even leverage this with advertisers to make money.

But what if you could simply buy your friends and followers online?

Mukul Devichand of #BBCTrending tracked down a man who has made this his line of business. Although not a criminal offence, using and selling fake followers is a violation of most social network's terms of service.

What are your thoughts about what he's doing?

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

People seem to think that a lot of facebook friends or twitter followers will make a difference or improve their life somehow. They are just meaningless numbers at the end of the day.

 

[Evil Eye]

Can't really blame him if there're people willing to pay for this.

 

[Jazzy]

These days many people measure their prestige and social standing not just by their real-world influence, but their online one too.

That's pretty sad that people think of themselves like this. However, like EE said, if people want to pay him for 'fake' Twitter followers then he has a great business going for himself.

 

[draco99]

I think it is pretty stupid, be LEGIT AND GET YOUR OWN FOLLOWERS INSTEAD OF WASTING YOUR MONEY