Anyone ever bought followers?

13 years ago

I've never bought followers. IMO they are all fake and not targeted. I do a lot of incentivizing on my websites so I bought a social locker plugin for $16. It was well worth it because it converted my visitors into followers. Look for Ijanki's share locker.

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chithi 13 years ago

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Matt Cook

13 years ago

I generally slam a quick 1000 onto any new facebook page for $5. Social proof.

If you're trying to buy REAL followers. Followers are bought via ads. Otherwise they're not target. What's the incentive for a "bought" follower to follow you? They're certainly not raising their hand as qualified prospects for your offer.

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joshb12 13 years ago

Personally I'd like to just increase my followers another 20k, and then just follow a target audience after that.
It doesn't matter to me whether what I buy is target or not, or completely real or not. I just wanted to increase it like I said and then I'd go back to following the way I have been following.
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- BennyP 12 years ago
  
  Approach other niche related big Facebook/Twitter pages and ask them to promote for you. I gained 600ish FB fans for $50 by doing this. Most people will be happy to if your page is quality and offers something of value. As no one is going to want to promote a page to their followers that they would receive badly. Facebook fans are very moody haha, be careful!
  
  DO NOT buy ANY fans for any social platform, it is a waste of money. All fans will be fake accounts, and give you nothing in return, so what's the point on spending money on them. I spend $31 (fb monthly minimum) on any fan page i create, target it well, i usually get 4 fans per $1, it's a great start. PM me if you need a hand
  
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chithi

13 years ago

Yea, I purchased once from fiverr. That cheat instantly gave me 10k followers, and after 3 days of gig completion, 9k followers are gone.
My 5 bucks ended in smoke.

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jessepit

12 years ago

Originally Posted by chithi

Yea, I purchased once from fiverr. That cheat instantly gave me 10k followers, and after 3 days of gig completion, 9k followers are gone.
My 5 bucks ended in smoke.

Well said. It's totally rubbish. No need to buy followers, simply increase it manually design your profile, post update etc.

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danlew

13 years ago

I didn't buy followers for my Twitter account. I generated them through my own blog posts, email list, FB fan page and group, etc. Content engagement is one key that a reader may be following you on Twitter, or even join your FB fan page for good.

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socialexchange 13 years ago

With so many free avenues out there the paid methods to me became less of use. I understand that most "free" twitter followers will not be targeted followers but I post good content that become retweeted and find that my target usually finds me.
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Ted Stevenson

13 years ago

I've heard it's never a good idea. The majority of these services are just selling garbage automated accounts that provide no value.

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Nisip

Banned 13 years ago

devumi sells the most expensive fake followers.

if you want real human followers or likes, the best place is socialfanmonster

just don't buy more than 200,000 followers per day

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Nisip

Banned 11 years ago

devumi sells the most expensive fake followers.

if you want real human followers or likes, the best place is socialfanmonster

just don't buy more than 200,000 followers per day

There is an explosion of services that claim to increase the number of twitter followers,
as this type of service is regarded as highly needed, but over the course of the last years, besides socialfanmonster, I can hardly count what other social media service has stood the test of time

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socialexchange 13 years ago

I actually tested this, wll not from "buying" but from addmefast site alone. I started a new twitter, only grew twitter followers from addmefast and had retweets on several tweets. days and weeks later had began gaining newer followers, not from addmefast or services like it but just from the initial start of it. I believe its mostly about you, if people like what you have to say you'll get noticed.
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socialexchange

13 years ago

I agree with Ted though, I would never personally "buy"

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Ripster

13 years ago

I've bought followers before but they're fake so they might disappear eventually.

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shmeeko69

13 years ago

Originally Posted by joshb12

I was wondering if you guys have ever bought followers for twitter for business or personal reasons?

I have read some on Devumi, but I was looking for a safe place to buy them from that won't scam me or make me lose them over time. Devumi claims that you don't lose followers, but you may lose some overtime.

Personally I wouldn't, as they are not real followers but folk using software bots to create fake profiles. Most people who seem to have ordered these type of packages end up losing most of them after a certain period.

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MoneyReign

12 years ago

It's funny how many "buy follower" services are out there. I would really recommend staying away from all of them. If you can pay money and have your account loaded up with fake accounts/followers, then that's pretty much what you are going to get.

However there are some better alternatives. Sites like twiends.com and twittercounter.com will give your account exposure and people will manually like and follow you. These are real accounts.

The services and followers are real, but they will also cost you more money.

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KingRoyal

12 years ago

I do not recommend buying followers unless you use Facebooks promotion platforms directly. Most cheap followers are sent to you via spam and bots. Not worth it, and it violates FB's TOS

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cyberma

12 years ago

Stay away from buying Twitter followers. Twitter does not allow more than 100 following/followers a day. They will block your account. Anyone having more than 2k followers is under a special scope.

I tried a gig with only 1000 followers as an experiment and the account got blocked immediatelly with no way back.

I think that buying followers is generally a bad idea. Definitely no value at all and a high risk to get banned.

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joshb12 12 years ago

Originally Posted by cyberma

I think that buying followers is generally a bad idea. Definitely no value at all and a high risk to get banned.

So twitter will ban you for buying followers even if you're not following them back? I'm not sure I believe that unless they suspend you because of the followers being fake. If that were the case then Obama, and other celebs would be banned since a good portion of their followers are fake. Also, another point, if twitter only allows 100 followers to follow you a day, celebs would be gone in a minute because they build more than 100 in a 5 hour period, especially if they're new.
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cyberma

12 years ago

Originally Posted by cyberma

Stay away from buying Twitter followers. Twitter does not allow more than 100 following/followers a day. They will block your account. Anyone having more than 2k followers is under a special scope.

I tried a gig with only 1000 followers as an experiment and the account got blocked immediatelly with no way back.

I think that buying followers is generally a bad idea. Definitely no value at all and a high risk to get banned.

According to my experience increasing the number of following or followers too quickly will lead to account suspension. I think that Twitter checks every suspicious activity. Celebrities and famous people's accounts have probably some individual settings.

You can try it yourself - create an account and buy 1000 followers, or simply follow 200 people in one day. I believe that the account gets suspended. I might be wrong, but this is my experience with several accounts, not only one.

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uawizard 12 years ago

We've done a ton of testing with it, don't buy them.

Free services works quite fine... they do take time but its worth it, especially if the profiles are in the same category - after some time, it begins to grow outside of the exchange...

Social Exchange It - just released a Firefox plugin for some automated features

Hope that helps you out!
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joshb12

12 years ago

So the take home point thus far is use addmefast or use twiends?

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chithi 12 years ago

Originally Posted by joshb12

So the take home point thus far is use addmefast or use twiends?

Free sites work really good. But they're too slow.
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JohnV88

12 years ago

It highly depends on how trusted the seller there are plenty who sells fake followers..

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kmanbloquet

12 years ago

Once in a while I use TraffUP to get followers

Pro's
If the followers unfollow you then you get your points(money) back
Cheap
Easy

Con
Not targeted.

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nyc4626

12 years ago

I have bought followers but the legitimacy is questionable if the source claims they are from real accounts. If you want cheap followers, likes or views IU use Fiverr.com. It's a cool site for that sort of thing and other $5 gigs

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joshb12 12 years ago

Like I stated above, I'm not worried if the users are Target or even real tweeters. I'm just looking to jump my followers another 20k, and then I'll follow a target audience. I also would like to try and find a site that didn't drop your followers after you have gained them. Devumi claims to not make you lose followers except overtime you may lose followers naturally. I just didn't know how reputable they were or if there was anyone that was more trusted.
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chithi

12 years ago

Originally Posted by nyc4626

I have bought followers but the legitimacy is questionable if the source claims they are from real accounts. If you want cheap followers, likes or views IU use Fiverr.com. It's a cool site for that sort of thing and other $5 gigs

Forget fiverr.
I purchased 10,000 followers gig that drained out in just 2 days. And I lost my money for nothing.

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subisa852

12 years ago

I never bought followers because most of those accounts are fake and Twitter now are becoming strict on their policy regarding the number of followers.

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Bent SEO

12 years ago

Buying followers is all essentially useless unless your sole intention is to raise the number of followers you have - but don't think selling to them, marketing to them or anything else is effective.

Find a relevant authority in a niche and follow their followers, some will follow you back. Interact with them, more will find you.

Rinse and repeat.

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JohnnyG11k

12 years ago

hi josh

Never bought fans or likes. I've bought solo ads.

If you care about brand image, you could buy some likes/fans, but they're not worth it to your business, other than showing some fake numbers

If you care about your business and bottom line profits, I'd invest in ads on FB, or sponsored posts... do your research and see which works best, and which case

I'm still experimenting with this myself, so I don't have stats to report yet...

Does it help?

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RickCopy

12 years ago

For 5 bucks id rather do a $1 a day FB ad campaign and get real fans... i have no idea why people still buy bulk inactive fans. With edgerank the way it is all you're doing is making fewer real fans see your posts.

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artflair

12 years ago

Yes, once I did the mistake of buying 30000 followers on Fiverr from some guy from India. He had a 99% Positive Feedback which was the weirdest thing because the followers dropped out about 3-4 days later and I ended up exactly with I was starting with and with $5 less on my account...

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executed

12 years ago

When i was new to social network marketing i have bought few followers sometimes from various forums but never got any good result from it so i have decided to make it famous myself and believe me with little hard work I have got lots of folllowers and its continue to grow.

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laurenmor

12 years ago

The twitter followers you brought are not real and good followers. They are bots and not use for business purposes. So make your own followers with safe way by following other people and provide informative posts.

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streetpipscom

12 years ago

Buying followers or likes is not organic thus it's useless after all.

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Beatinest

12 years ago

Yes I have tried that several times with several different companies. Every time the accounts got banned.

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grahamstreet

12 years ago

I bought 2500 followers from fiverr about a month ago. The adds were slow but consistent, and in a day I had 2500 followers. They were real "looking" accounts (picture, plausible name, and active tweets about a topic that seemed to fit their persona.)

After a few hundred I realized they were automated accounts (fake) based on the name /handle. each one was CamelCase7 format.....LindaBlair9.

So initially i was disappointed. but what I have found is that these 2500 (who have stayed following me)

Then I found the icing on the cake... From my own tweets, about niches, i was getting 10+ new followers per day. I have tested this same posting pattern with an account with no followers, and I get no followers. My explanation is that people notice the tweets (search, hashtag) and think it might be an interesting /like minded tweeter, and, with 2800 followers, I must have something good to say!!!

So if you can keep them, fake followers can have benefit.

Graham

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deandre30

12 years ago

yea i have not such a great turn out. when u buy followers those followers arent targeted and its just hit or miss

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Kate96

12 years ago

Buying followers is not a good thing and it's all waste of time and money. I have got such experience when i spent some bucks on a site which promised me to give 5k likes but after a week it all gone in vain. My money wasted and after that never ever tried for that.

The best thing is to do it manually engage in your activities and make it more big and widespread and it will help you.

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alea

12 years ago

I bought follower service here, they only lasted a few months.

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AnkurJaiswal

12 years ago

I have bought 200 twitter followers and 1000 facebook fans from fiverr. I was not banned by twitter but the followers started disappearing after a weak. About the facebook fans, they are still there after 3 months! But buying followers doesn't help unless you want to impress your friends.

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VishalBhatt123

12 years ago

Hi, Josh... Never buy followers of Twitter. In that you get maximum fake type of followers in this process. So, it is not very much beneficial for your business.

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AlexGeorge

12 years ago

Followers that you purchase aren't targeted and therefore don't offer any value to you apart from making your account look more followed. Bought followers rarely if ever engage with anything you tweet, so don't go expecting them to go to your site and opt in for a newsletter. If you are still wanting to purchase them, there are a lot of gigs on Fiverr that do this.

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Insightful91 12 years ago

I've got experience with buying followers - not a path to choose if you are building a serious online venue. Like someone up there said, they are not targeted.

You can have 10k individuals sitting in your Facebook page without receiving a single like/share/comment when you share some cool stuff from your website. If you want followers instead of "followers" you will have to work hard to get them but it really pays back.
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- TerranceCharles 12 years ago
  
  If you're aiming for Social proof or you just put up a new twitter profile, it's not a bad idea. Reason being most people will follow someone who they perceive as important, no one likes to see you're following 1,000 people and only 100 following back
  
  But, the only downfall to it is most of your followers will disappear - some in weeks, some in a couple of months but they never really stick and that's due to the sellers database being sold over and over from places like fiverr and not because of twitter.
  
  Twitter allows you to buy followers, they don't frown upon that. They're services that actually provide real followers, much more expensive and time consuming, twitter just doesn't like where some sellers try to manipulate their database using spam tactics etc. But all in all, if you're trying to get a new brand started - good for social proof, until you can really build up real followers.
  
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dagnyjbarber

12 years ago

Buying followers can be good way if the firm is actually giving real followers. But some gives fake which do not support our business to grow up and increasing sales.

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Stacy Crak 12 years ago

I don't suggest buying followers. They never seem to last and they will never be interested in your product thus no sharing and no liking nothing which is essentially what you want and need with social networking.

It might look good at first but most accounts are fake and some people are bound to notice. I suggest to instead invest your money in ad placement which will get you followers that will actually be interested in your product.
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CrackMarketing 12 years ago

Buying followers is a waste of your money as most of them will not be targeted to you, so most of them will never follow you. Stick to what you already do and keep building.
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Lokahi 12 years ago

Its not worth it if i'm honest i remember buying about 5000 within 2 weeks i had lost 2500 most sites don't provide full time followers which means at any time they could stop following you just go to tweetpeddler.
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Kabita C

12 years ago

Yes i was bought , I bought 100k follower , but that was fake , he showed me the twiter follower but after few days it was gone

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500RealFollowerscom 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kabita C

Yes i was bought , I bought 100k follower , but that was fake , he showed me the twiter follower but after few days it was gone

Yep you got fake bot followers. They are usually very unproductive and useless even if they stick. You should consider only adding real genuine value to your online presence for credibility sake.
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Aurelijus

12 years ago

Originally Posted by joshb12

I was wondering if you guys have ever bought followers for twitter for business or personal reasons?

I have read some on Devumi, but I was looking for a safe place to buy them from that won't scam me or make me lose them over time. Devumi claims that you don't lose followers, but you may lose some overtime.

Bought followers = no opt-ins, no conversions, no sales. All I have to say.

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Moneymaker2012

12 years ago

bought once a long time ago, but I found them they were disappearing very fast.
That's why I never trust them anymore

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MichaelBartley

12 years ago

I agree with nexus2. I've bought 20k followers before. they go away eventually. I also purchased a social locker plugin for WP that intergrated with my facebook app. What was the coolest was that I found that woobox(facebook app) is totally free and you can enable 3 kinds of lockers on it.

On 1 tab I just plugged in my Getresponse web form as the locker, offered a free strategy or report that was set up automatically in autoresponder and viola! Instant subscribers. Then promoted the sharable link for the tab that woobox gives you in the settings tab via paid ad and post in various groups related to your niche.

On tab 2 Did exact same thing and made the locker require to like page and share the tab. Woobox facebook app is great and FREE.

Just a jewel there for you

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JimDucharme

12 years ago

For what it's worth I'll offer an analogy I've given before:

Let's say you have a new bar that just opened and you want to make it look busy. So, you hire some kids to line up outside of it. Seeing the line might get other people lining up, but if when they get into your bar, there are no real customers there (or the food and tunes suck), will they stay or return?

You can't buy love or likes for that matter.

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JackSmith012

12 years ago

Originally Posted by joshb12

I was wondering if you guys have ever bought followers for twitter for business or personal reasons?

I have read some on Devumi, but I was looking for a safe place to buy them from that won't scam me or make me lose them over time. Devumi claims that you don't lose followers, but you may lose some overtime.

I think there is no need to buy followers, just remain active in your profile, follow others and share interesting stuff.

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ashiq3896

12 years ago

fake followers just make ur account look popular ... in turn this makes ppl think you are popular and follow u

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SethLogan

11 years ago

Yes, just make sure not to buy to many because it looks bad if you have thousands of followers and no interactions.

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markeeter

11 years ago

Bought followers are a waste of money. They'll never convert, and they'll mess up your analytics.

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Oli999

11 years ago

My daughter bought 100 subscribers for youtube from devumi which appeared after a couple of days but then half of them vanished a week later. Waste of money.

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Valiant1

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Oli999

My daughter bought 100 subscribers for youtube from devumi which appeared after a couple of days but then half of them vanished a week later. Waste of money.

I purchased Twitter followers from Devumi. I thought they would deliver quality followers who hadn't posted regularly. Devumi says the followers will never unfollow you, and the company says they'll even over deliver just in case you lose some followers. Funny how it isn't explained why a customer would lose some followers if the followers are guaranteed not to unfollow.

The problem is that Twitter searches for shady Twitter accounts and deletes them. Devumi delivers followers within hours which puts your account at risk of looking shady - gradual adding seems to be of little concern to Devumi.

Devumi claims to refund the money if you request it within 30 days of using their services. But will that matter if the account becomes compromised i.e. looks bad or gets banned?

Twitter will remove fake accounts, the loss of followers is because Devumi delivers LOW QUALITY followers. The accounts are not acceptable to Twitter so they are deleted. Devumi says they overdeliver just in case something in the Twitter update causes a loss of followers. Read between the lines: Devumi expects the customer to lose followers because they are delivering what is actually against Twitter's TOS. Why else would hundreds of followers vanish overnight?

Devumi offers different packages and it will look worse if you buy hundreds of thousands of followers only to have them vanish within days or weeks of purchase.

Devumi is SHADY! They should be avoided like the plague.

Use your efforts to get organic followers. There are reputable companies that will help you find Twitter followers, the drawback is that you're paying them to find people for you to follow. Even though they're likely very targeted, why spend money on that? But that is a better option than using Devumi which delivers nothing of value, but pockets your hard earned money.

If enough people learn how Devumi operates, maybe it will turn off buyers to the point they go out of business.

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Nisip

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Valiant1

the loss of followers is because Devumi delivers LOW QUALITY followers. The accounts are not acceptable to Twitter so they are deleted. Devumi says they overdeliver just in case something in the Twitter update causes a loss of followers. Read between the lines: Devumi expects the customer to lose followers because they are delivering what is actually against Twitter's TOS. Why else would hundreds of followers vanish overnight?

Devumi offers different packages and it will look worse if you buy hundreds of thousands of followers only to have them vanish within days or weeks of purchase.

Devumi is SHADY! They should be avoided like the plague.

Use your efforts to get organic followers. There are reputable companies that will help you find Twitter followers, the drawback is that you're paying them to find people for you to follow.

Devumi sells the most expensive fake followers.

Originally Posted by Michael

if you want real human followers or likes, the best place is socialfanmonster

just don't buy more than 200,000 followers per day

From what I noticed, it makes a big difference in all twitter interactions
and all twitter conversations with potential clients: everyone on Twitter judges you by the number of followers that you have, that represents your social power, your social proof

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Nisip

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelT

if you want real human followers or likes, the best place is socialfanmonster

just don't buy more than 200,000 followers per day

From what I noticed, it makes a big difference in all twitter interactions
and all twitter conversations with potential clients: everyone on Twitter judges you by the number of followers that you have, that represents your social power, your social proof

Yep.

when I had 137 followers, nobody bothered to reply to my tweets.

now when I have 38,291 followers, even large institutions and transport companies
reply like they are 24 x 7 online

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Nisip

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelT

if you want real human followers or likes, the best place is socialfanmonster

just don't buy more than 200,000 followers per day

From what I noticed, it makes a big difference in all twitter interactions
and all twitter conversations with potential clients: everyone on Twitter judges you by the number of followers that you have, that represents your social power, your social proof

Yep.

when I had 137 followers, nobody bothered to reply to my tweets.

now when I have 38,291 followers, even large institutions and transport companies
reply like they are 24 x 7 online

Anyone who has over 10,000 twitter followers can attest to these facts, very true

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imnicholasscott 10 years ago

I buy 2k followers for every new Twitter account that I start. I agree with everyone about them being fake and not interacting. However, that is not their value to me.

Their value is in the raised ROI, investment = time spent creating engagement.
Example. One Twitter account posts great content, follows targeted users, replies, etc. With a brand new account, no followers, I see a 2-3% engagement per 1000 actions.

Alternatively with a brand new account, 2k+ fake followers, I get around 11-15% engagement per 1000 actions. That's over 5 times ROI for time spent on Twitter. The same principle applies for me when using ads to generate interest.

A note on the followers I buy. Make sure they are REAL looking accounts, not necessarily real. If your account has 2k eggs and no tweets followers it looks terrible. If it has 2k with profiles and consistent tweets then even TwitterAudit can't tell they are fake. Also use a website that gives you a money back guarantee on the service and replacement on lost followers.

I also use this same principle for Instagram, but make sure to purchase likes as well since 10k followers & 3 likes per photo looks terrible as well.

I'm happy to give you the name of the site I use for all of my purchases, but I don't think I can post it here.

Does anyone else use real looking followers to gain social clout and monitize it? If so how?
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austria

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelT

if you want real human followers or likes, the best place is socialfanmonster

just don't buy more than 200,000 followers per day

From what I noticed, it makes a big difference in all twitter interactions
and all twitter conversations with potential clients: everyone on Twitter judges you by the number of followers that you have, that represents your social power, your social proof

Yep.

when I had 137 followers, nobody bothered to reply to my tweets.

now when I have 38,291 followers, even large institutions and transport companies
reply like they are 24 x 7 online

Anyone who has over 10,000 twitter followers can attest to these facts, very true

That's very true.

That's just the straight fast way, and the good thing is that Twitter still shows all your tweets to your followers. Without asking you to pay extra

While Facebook wants to charge you for each message you post. Otherwise, not even 1% of your Facebook followers (fans likes) will ever get to see your post

Twitter looks ugly on the outside, but the results and the sales it brings on daily basis, and all for free, without any need to spend any money for ads, makes Twitter still be the closest to the "goose that lays golden eggs"
as it can get in 2016

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warso

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Michael T

if you want real human followers or likes, the best place is socialfanmonster

just don't buy more than 200,000 followers per day

From what I noticed, it makes a big difference in all twitter interactions
and all twitter conversations with potential clients: everyone on Twitter judges you by the number of followers that you have, that represents your social power, your social proof

Yep.

when I had 137 followers, nobody bothered to reply to my tweets.

now when I have 38,291 followers, even large institutions and transport companies
reply like they are 24 x 7 online

I will check this out, thank you

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T S Chan 10 years ago

Tried this before (a few years back) -> totally useless :-)
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st0nec0ld

11 years ago

Originally Posted by joshb12

I was wondering if you guys have ever bought followers for twitter for business or personal reasons?

I have read some on Devumi, but I was looking for a safe place to buy them from that won't scam me or make me lose them over time. Devumi claims that you don't lose followers, but you may lose some overtime.

I've never bought but I've tried you know follow for follow kinda thing.
And, I was not convinced when I realized that the followers I get are nothing but junk.
If you want to get more followers on social media then use their ads instead.

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askhakwani

11 years ago

Fake is never good. I have never bought it as its useless..

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cendrinemedia

11 years ago

You should NEVER buy followers. Huge numbers may be impressive to others for the first ten minutes. But people see through the fluff quickly.

Fake followers are a great way to waste money and get banned by Twitter too.

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Temperus

11 years ago

buying followers or fans is not a good idea and - honestly spoken - everyone who sells them is just trying to talk you into this. It's a pretty easy thought. FB and Twitter have a LOT of data. So, the can determine what type of profile/page you have and they pretty much know exactly whats the average engagement rate for follower/fans given your geo/profile/activity/content. So, when you buy follower/fans, they will either be inactive or unnaturally active. Both will be detected by the algorithms of FB/Twitter. Your profile/page might not get banned for this, but your quality score will decrease which will result in less organic reach overall. So you're actually slamming yourself before you get to reach anyone... I had to go through that experience myself and it did hurt.

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LogoDesignerz

11 years ago

Yes, there are many sites which provide such kind of services for money. But I never use it or you can say that I never bought the Followers for twitter or for any other social media site.

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kamienZen

10 years ago

Had anyone actually lose many followers after time?

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DrForum

10 years ago

Originally Posted by joshb12

I was wondering if you guys have ever bought followers for twitter for business or personal reasons?

I have read some on Devumi, but I was looking for a safe place to buy them from that won't scam me or make me lose them over time. Devumi claims that you don't lose followers, but you may lose some overtime.

I have never bought followers and have no intention of buying them any time soon. The reason is because most of the followers that are sold are usually passive and hence wont help you do any marketing. It could have been a good ideas if at all the followers you purchase are active and within your niche. Buying followers from persons you even don't know what they are interested in proves to be challenging. You better gain the followers naturally and be sure that they will be your audience when need rather than having numbers that have no value.

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avowzone

Banned 10 years ago

There are plenty of website sells twitter followers but it should not help you to promote your business, they are just bot and not real people.

One real follower worth is more than million bot / fake followers.

I never tried to buy twitter follower but I think it may harm your account!

You better try twitter marketing service or twitter advertising that can bring real followers for your business.

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Nisip

Banned 10 years ago

Take into consideration that Hillary Clinton bought more than 2 (TWO) millions twitter followers:

More than 2 MILLION of Hillary Clinton's Twitter followers are fake or never tweet | Daily Mail Online

And this way, Hillary Clinton will be the next United States president.

If it was something bad, she wouldn't have done it. But it definitely shows it helps her
to have such tremendous number of followers on Twitter

Actually it is interesting how the only people who are against getting large numbers of twitter followers by making campaigns for getting them (buying them) are only the same ones as those who always
look for everything for free, without any investment other than their time

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michaelkoehler92 10 years ago

Yup! Buying followers is not a bad thing if you know what you are doing.
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saidulislam

10 years ago

Yes ,i bought followers from Fiverr bt there was fake followers

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blogza68

10 years ago

Buying followers is waste of money until and unless you want to see increase in followers and no engagements in post. Better go for targeted ads.

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Alex Byhovtsov

10 years ago

As you can see from the comments above buying followers is not a good way to promote your services. It's better to post smth valuable and gain real ones.

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austria

Banned 10 years ago

Everyone buys followers
and pays for them either with:

- their time
- their advertising campaigns and money for these advertising campaigns
- directly with money

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jtoelle

10 years ago

The point of buying Fake Followers is to show Social Proof and to use them in conjunction with other Marketing efforts.

People follow pages that look popular, that's why you would kickstart your page with Fake followers to increase your conversions of Real Organic followers.

No matter if you buy Twitter, Instagram followers they will drop over time. This is because the accounts get deleted.

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Braznyc

10 years ago

It is called "social" for a reason.

You cannot buy people's interests. You have to attract them by offering something they are interested at.

They will follow you because they will have something in common with you.

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MouseandMice

10 years ago

Regarding buying followers... they are ALL fake. Even the ones that say "real"... are fake.

You will be purchasing fake followers that will have zero activity and will make you look pathetic.

Don't do it.

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Nisip

Banned 10 years ago

but the hard truth is that not even 0.001% of twitter users ever bother to check
if someone's followers are fake or real

while about 99.9% of twitter users do judge you based on the number of followers that you have
(it is called Social Proof and it works automatically in our human brains)

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MouseandMice

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Nisip

but the hard truth is that not even 0.001% of twitter users ever bother to check
if someone's followers are fake or real

while about 99.9% of twitter users do judge you based on the number of followers that you have
(it is called Social Proof and it works automatically in our human brains)

You obviously have zero experience with Twitter, but I appreciate that you felt the need to jump in here and give someone else advice.

The reason "fake" versus "real" matters is because of ENGAGEMENT. When you have 10,000 followers and your posts are getting zero likes, zero retweets, and zero comments, it kills your authority.

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avowzone

Banned 10 years ago

I never buy followers for twitter and other social media site.

Buying followers if totally worthless! I have joined in twitter in 2012 ans since then I build up some twitter pages and start posting my business related content. At first I promoted my blog and affiliate links and few month later I can see plenty of growth of my followers and earning. Then I take decision to promote other peoples in my network which has now 760,000 plus followers. I am getting regular order from my customers because I have no fake followers and my followers are organic!

One organic followers worth is more than million fake followers. When someone interested in your posting they may follow you and when they find something beneficial for them they may buy it but fake followers / buying followers can't do it!

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LeonardoAlvarez

10 years ago

Originally Posted by avowzone

I never buy followers for twitter and other social media site.

Buying followers if totally worthless! I have joined in twitter in 2012 ans since then I build up some twitter pages and start posting my business related content. At first I promoted my blog and affiliate links and few month later I can see plenty of growth of my followers and earning. Then I take decision to promote other peoples in my network which has now 760,000 plus followers. I am getting regular order from my customers because I have no fake followers and my followers are organic!

One organic followers worth is more than million fake followers. When someone interested in your posting they may follow you and when they find something beneficial for them they may buy it but fake followers / buying followers can't do it!

The thing with buying followers isn't making money with them, you can't, they're fake.

The idea is look legit when you're first starting out, that can really kickstart your business.

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MouseandMice

10 years ago

Originally Posted by LeonardoAlvarez

The thing with buying followers isn't making money with them, you can't, they're fake.

The idea is look legit when you're first starting out, that can really kickstart your business.

Except as myself and others have stated, you do not look legit. You look like an idiot with 10,000 followers and no interaction with your page.

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Immu

10 years ago

The only advantage of buying followers are, you psychologically win fan and you look legit

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austria Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Immu

The only advantage of buying followers are, you psychologically win fan and you look legit

Yes. In our days everything that matters is first impression.

And 99.99% of people on the Internet will trust a brand with 38,490 twitter followers
(having no clue how to "check" if they'r real or not)
and they will never trust a brand with 75 followers

That's the naked truth
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SusanHarrison

10 years ago

I would never buy followers, ten interested well targeted genuine followers are better than a thousand fake ones and ten times more profitable.
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johnyt240

10 years ago

I have bought followers and llikes on Fiverr.com. It highly depends on how trusted the seller there are plenty who sells fake followers

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TweetSpecialist

10 years ago

Most followers provided online are created manually for real human twitter followers you have to deal with guys like 500realfollowers

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10 years ago

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Adriana Copaceanu

10 years ago

Not Twitter, but I bought Facebook likes and it was the biggest mistake of my life: I'd never do that again. Not only were they useless (never interacted), but they skewed my insights once i got real followers: I never knew what did well, becasue for all the inflated numbers.

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sunleil

10 years ago

Do Not Buy Twitter Followers, Most of the time what you'll get is Dead and Non Active accounts it will not Help you with your Business, if your promoting something they can not buy from you because there Fake accounts and it will harm your Klout Score, I have Several large Twitter accounts and I have never bought any Followers, But it is time consuming building accounts, I Gain my Followers by Helping other accounts Gain Followers for Free, I Gain Between 100 to 300 New Followers a Day doing it this way, My Main account has over 180,000 Followers

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Sumon2k7

10 years ago

If you want to buy Twitter followers, then why you're looking other sites. Twitter itself have various ad packages, from their you can buy a campaign and it's a very safest way to buy fan for social network channel.

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ultimeztech

10 years ago

My personal suggestion to you is not to buy followers but you can generate in ethical way and here you will get genuine followers.

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Ola Rybacka

10 years ago

God, I'm so angry when somebody is asking about it. What is the point of buying followers? Just increasing their number? Where is the user engagement when you have lots of followers who don't want to do anything with your account?

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hashtagalex

10 years ago

It's always a terrible idea. I thought this was a well known fact!

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austria

Banned 10 years ago

Relevant:

TweepsMap shows where your Twitter followers live and what languages they communicate in | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly

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enjamulahsan

Banned 10 years ago

I didn't bough any followers. And I don't have any followers. Everyone hates me. :'(

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JCoffey

10 years ago

I haven't read all the comments, so excuse me if someone already made this point.

I have never personally bought followers, though I have sold them. Let me explain exactly how fake followers (we'll use twitter followers only for an example) work.

I will look around various forums first to find and gather Twitter account lists. It's very simple, and most packs come with at least 20-100k accounts. Free.

Use an account checker to weed out the inactive/banned accounts, and voila~ 100-300k twitter accounts to my disposal. Just like that, it took maybe an hour to get everything I need.

I used to use a free web-based service called z0mb1e for the actual job of getting all of those accounts to follow someone. It's as simple as uploading a .txt file with your accounts, entering the name you wish they would all follow, and a click of a button to do the deed.

It was completely worthless. Although it looked really cool to have a few hundred thousand followers, there was really no value in it whatsoever. Why? Because it's fake people, and fake people only have fake credit cards. No good for us. If there is any value in it, it's only so you don't look like a brand new page.

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gloribel5

10 years ago

my opinion it is a waste of time and hurt your profile as well.

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michaelkoehler92

10 years ago

You can do it for social proof. Doesn't matter. Just buy some lol

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nsserve

10 years ago

I personally have seen at many instances that bought followers decline with the passage of time and there is no activity on your posts that doesn't give a good impression.

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admin@subashseo.com

10 years ago

For 5 bucks id rather do a $1 a day FB ad campaign and get real fans

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kubikdanon 10 years ago

Originally Posted by admin@subashseo.com

For 5 bucks id rather do a $1 a day FB ad campaign and get real fans

How many real fans will you get for 1 buck ?
That was funny
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TweetSpecialist

10 years ago

Originally Posted by joshb12

I was wondering if you guys have ever bought followers for twitter for business or personal reasons?

I have read some on Devumi, but I was looking for a safe place to buy them from that won't scam me or make me lose them over time. Devumi claims that you don't lose followers, but you may lose some overtime.

There are much more affordable Twitter Followers providers around, with much better quality; You don't need looking so far.

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Nisip

Banned 10 years ago

There is basically almost no succesfull business or website in the world that has less than at least few thousands twitter followers

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phenomix

10 years ago

You will be lucky to find a service provider who can deliver real followers. These types of services are mainly used when people want to make their Social Media accounts appear more popular. This can make other people more inclined to the account because it is popular.

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Nisip

Banned 10 years ago

it's not a matter of luck. 99.99% of people on Twitter trust those with a large number of followers.

I've never met anyone who stalks twitter profiles and searches what kind of followers each account has. Nobody has so much free time to burn. Time is valuable

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getbread

10 years ago

I have not, I don't see the point.

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Funtobesocial

10 years ago

Never and it would be a waste of money. Fake accounts are worthless. Use that money to find real followers and you will be happy you did.

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warso

10 years ago

It's actually both a waste of time and a waste of money to be active in social media
without first getting at least minimum 1,000 followers for social proof, trust and credibility

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Nisip

Banned 10 years ago

The question of the OP of this thread is currently the most asked question in Social Media section of
the Warrior Forum.

And most people just start new threads, just to ask this same exact question

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simpleoffers99com

10 years ago

I think it's shady because clearly those followers are just robotically created accounts

and I would call them zombie followers

Buying followers,This is an easy game,but not worth the risk,,,Stay away,

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fredi

10 years ago

I have no experience with Devumi. But once I brought Follower for business purpose. One word I want to say "Waste of Money".

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journeymanifested

10 years ago

Do paid shout outs with big IG accounts. Most have contact info in their bio. You can go to multiple accounts and either do a squeeze page with a link, or simply ask for the account to give you a shout out and send you some traffic. The investment is more, but the followers are real and don't drop in a few days. Be sure to look for accounts with lots of post activity, though. They need to be getting thousands of likes per photo.

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