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The real problem with buying tons of followers/fans.

by The Copy Warriors
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Personally, I will never do this, and there's a very simple reason for it.

While you might get a little bit of social proof from fake fans/followers, that alone won't be enough to make up for poor content.

And, if you want to make good content, you need to see how people are reacting to your content, and adjust it accordingly.

You judge your content by how many people like it, follow it, or leave positive comments about it.

But how are you going to be able to tell when someone REAL likes your Facebook page, when it's already loaded up with thousands of bots?

So it's simple, really: too much fake positive feedback makes it impossible to tell when you're actually getting REAL positive feedback, so you never know what you're actually doing right or wrong.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark72
    I think it's still worth it just for the social proof.

    On twitter it's very difficult to get the ball rolling when you don't already have any followers.

    Just buying 1000 or so from fiverr can literally double the % of follow backs as people tend to follow the heard.
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    • Profile picture of the author Trevor M
      Originally Posted by Mark72 View Post

      I think it's still worth it just for the social proof.

      On twitter it's very difficult to get the ball rolling when you don't already have any followers.

      Just buying 1000 or so from fiverr can literally double the % of follow backs as people tend to follow the heard.
      Surprisingly - and this could be the personality type of my targeted niche or any other variable - I actually hardly seen an increase at all when I first tried buying followers (stupid mistake).

      I was gaining about 7 - 10 a day when I was starting from 0... I bought 1000 fans thinking my social proof would increase the daily number... It didn't.

      Still the same 7 - 10 a day.

      I vowed never to do it again.

      - Trevor
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      • Profile picture of the author The Copy Warriors
        I think buying a small number of followers could work, but anyone can tell what's going on when you have 20,000 "followers" and nobody re-tweeting you. People are dumb, but not THAT dumb.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
      Originally Posted by Mark72 View Post

      I think it's still worth it just for the social proof.

      On twitter it's very difficult to get the ball rolling when you don't already have any followers.

      Just buying 1000 or so from fiverr can literally double the % of follow backs as people tend to follow the heard.
      Hey Mark...was that a typo or intentional pun? As a pun...it's VERY clever.

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  • Profile picture of the author rob9482
    I found that buying twitter followers never really worked for me! It's a lot easier just to follow real people in your niche and they will generally naturally follow you back now I've been doing it a while I can get a couple of thousand twitter followers in about a week on a new account.

    And once you get a couple of thousand people in your niche following you others will automatically follow you without you following them and it will just snowballed from there.

    It just takes a little bit of time but doing it this way with real people that are interested in my niche gets a lot better results and quality traffic from twitter faster.

    Because at the end of the day the reason we are building twitter followers is so that we have people that are interested and responsive to our messages and actually click the links.
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  • Profile picture of the author tryinhere
    buying even one follow on fb or twitter is stupid and the only people who say it is not is the people peddling this bull crap.

    next people will want to tell me tinkerbell and peter pan are real as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adrianhenry
    You raise a very valid point. I was considering buying some followers from fiverr but im not sure if it is worth it. Im not sure if the social proof gained will be of any significance.
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    • Profile picture of the author fluffythewondercat
      It seems almost everybody missed the OP's point.

      He is saying, that just like every other marketing initiative you put in motion, you need to be able to analyze your results to see what's working or what needs improvement. You can't do that if you buy fake followers or fans.

      Forget social proof. This is Marketing 101.

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