Even though it can take a while, getting individual users to voluntarily follow you means a lot. It’s kind of like getting laughs as a comedian. People don’t laugh unless the comic is funny. And people don’t follow you on Twitter unless they think you’ve got something interesting to offer them.

It means so many celebrities has tons of fake followers. They are getting followers with wrong ways, I mean they are purchasing followers. Its too bad.

Dr. Diana

You have pointed out good thing about Social Media Network. According to me, Buying of counter feed likes of any Social Media Sites is a matter of total ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’. Al though, We are all depend on Several Social Media to promote our posts around the internet but if we follow wrong strategy to do it, then disaster will follow.

Thank you for sharing this post on Kingged.

Regards,
Swapnadip……

What an eye-opener that video was about all the fake followers of those celebrities.

Good to think we know better than they do – for all their highly paid marketing advice LOL.

I’ve never bought followers or likes, and pleased not to have wasted my money.

Thanks for an interesting post.

Joy

I’ve never purchased followers or friends for any of my social accounts. In the beginning though I did do the add followers automatically because I was taught it was all about the numbers. I admit being pretty ignorant back then and I did it but eventually I think I’ve now deleted all of my followers twice on Twitter and once on Facebook.

I eventually started learning more about this and realized that I didn’t know those people, they didn’t know me nor did they care to. That’s why it’s taken me this long to build my Twitter account back up to just 8,000 followers. I still don’t know all those people but I use the program ManagerFlitter to clean mine up periodically.

I only have one follower with an egghead but that’s my nephew. He still hasn’t set his profile up but I forgive him. I delete the inactive and I don’t have any fake accounts following me. I do this probably every three months I guess just to try my best to keep it clean. I’m sure that every program is different though so I’ll have to test this one out to see how I rate.

Thanks for this scoop, good to know and I agree… Don’t do fake!

~Adrienne

Glad to be here. 🙂
I think, buying social media fame is not worthy. I prefer to do it manually because I could feel the own satisfaction. Well, maybe I do not believe the “shortcut” though.

If you want to succeed in any field, there is no such thing as a shortcut. You have to go through all the obstacles and difficulties that you had to go through as a part of the success. 🙂

As Sunday said, we should naturally get followers in order to get a solid business footing.

Thanks for sharing this with us, Erik.
Interesting post. 🙂

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Regards,
Nanda

Fake it to make it is a strategy that deals a huge blow to the credibility of a brand.
Its still good having this article expose the statistics that would make us rethink our strategies!

Natural building of followership should not be sacrificed on the altar of paying for or buying likes, follows, friends!

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This title caught my eye and I’m sure glad I came over to read this post! “Fake it till you make it” never works!
You can spot it so easily when you are a blogger, go to someone’s new post and see that it has be shared 365 times on Google+ and 500 or so times on Twitter. Hmmm The first thing that comes to my mind is that they have purchase something that has pumped up their numbers.

So what’s in a number? Nothing at all! Are they real followers? Of course not! Can they be hitting a danger zone with hackers? I suppose!

For me, its a slow and steady process. If someone likes me they will follow me and I will get to know them, and they will get to know me. That’s the whole point isn’t it?

Less is more when it comes to followers. I rather have 500 loyal people I know on my Facebook page that will comment, will visit my blog, or just stay back in the sidelines until something “strikes” them and they engage.

How can I ever know 3K people and have a real engagement process going on? It’s all about being social, so having fake followers does not impress me at all. Rather, when I spot it, I do feel that there is some kind of desperation in that person, or maybe they were just taught the wrong way.

I love this article because you are bring out such an important factor to people. I was told to do this when I started, but didn’t buy it. I just hope that many will read this and get the truth.

Thanks so much!

-Donna

Great write. I heard about it before but yet to try. I’m going to try right now with 3 of my accounts and let’s see how far it goes 🙂

For once, I really against those buying Twitter followers. Just felt it is just a waste of time. Haha!

Oh yes, great theme you got there! Love it man.