(Fake) friends with (real) benefits: data scientist @gilgul experiments with buying Twitter followers http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0601-lotan-buying-followers-20140601-story.html …
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@mattcutts@gilgul Or twitter needs to create a temp account and buy followers. Then flag those fake users for potential delete. -
@McCroden but it's a good reminder that you'd have problems if you tried to build a trust/authority/reputation model based on Twitter data.
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@mattcutts@gilgul@bellastone where does "optimising" end and faking begin. Very gray area in my eyes. -
@AmmO_Singh@gilgul@mattcutts@bellastone Very gray area indeed. Buying followers may even be considered gray hat SEO, if you ask us. - Show replies
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@mattcutts buying followers has become so common, yet taboo. nobody talks about it. Publicizing it might get TW to finally respondThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@mattcutts also - interesting grey area: when someone tries to deconstruct an algorithm (a.k.a. "optimize") is it "bad behavior"?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@mattcutts especially if it is not harmful behavior? (no links shared - just pure fluffing of the numbers)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@mattcutts@gilgul@HoloMarkeD Google conveniently auto-completed my search for "buy Twitter" with .. "buy Twitter followers cheap". LOL -
@supaswag autocomplete must be the worse PR albatross for Big G ;) - Show replies
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