The Follower Factory - The New York Times

Kassem CC BY-NC-SA 27/01/2018

The Follower Factory - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/01/28/technology/28bots-promo/28bots-promo-facebookJumbo-v2.png

#Devumi sells Twitter followers and retweets to celebrities, businesses and anyone who wants to appear more popular or exert influence online. Drawing on an estimated stock of at least 3.5 million automated accounts, each sold many times over, the company has provided customers with more than 200 million #Twitter followers, a New York Times investigation found.

#robots #abonnés

#Devumi

Kassem CC BY-NC-SA

Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 28/01/2018

Fake followers sur Twitter : une enquête ouverte pour tromperie et « usurpation d’identité »
▻https://www.presse-citron.net/fake-followers-twitter-enquete-ouverte-tromperie-usurpation-didentite
https://www.presse-citron.net/wordpress_prod/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/devumi.jpg

Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA
Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 28/01/2018

These fake accounts, known as bots, can help sway advertising audiences and reshape political debates. They can defraud businesses and ruin reputations.
[...]
“You see a higher follower count, or a higher retweet count, and you assume this person is important, or this tweet was well received,” said Rand Fishkin, the founder of Moz, a company that makes search engine optimization software. “As a result, you might be more likely to amplify it, to share it or to follow that person.”

Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA

Écrire un commentaire