Twitter fake fan trading market hot week to make millions of dollars

&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">nbsp; According to foreign media reports, the Twitter false fan market not only has not declined, but flourished, and formed a millions of-dollar business. Twitter's bogus fan trade received media attention last summer, as Mitt Romney's fans rose 100,000 in a few days.  The news prompted social media management companies such as Statuspeople and socialbakers to develop web tools to identify the proportion of false fans of someone's Twitter account.


  However, these sites do not prevent people from engaging in fake fans and fraudulent forwarding transactions. The market has been further developed, some false accounts can be genuine, those who sell false fans claimed to be the highest in a week to make 1 million dollars.   Two security researchers from Italy, Andrea Stroppa and Carlo De Micheli, have investigated the underground economy of fake fan trading over the past few months, and they found the market booming.   More than 24 service providers sell Twitter bogus accounts, but this number is limited to more popular forums and websites, including Fiverr, Seoclerks, Intertwitter, Fanmenow, Likedsocial, Socialpresence and viral Media Boost. Two security researchers are predicting a maximum of 20 million false fan accounts, based on bogus accounts sold by the service providers.   False fans are usually packaged into 1000 to 1 million sales. Barracuda Labs's survey showed that the average price of 1000 false fans was $18. Some service providers even boast that each fake account can earn 2 dollars to 30 dollars.   According to two security researchers surveyed, 1000 to 1 million false fans were priced at $1 to 1000 dollars. Fiverr, for example, is priced at $5 per 1000 Twitter-fake fans. They keep predicting that Twitter's bogus fan trading business is between 40 million and 360 million dollars.   These false fans will be sold to multiple buyers. In fact, buyers like false fans and focus on other people, and this looks more realistic.   In addition, now some software can create a false account, these account data complete, or even more real than the real account. It appears that the most "real" fake accounts frequently post or forward messages, have avatars and complete personal profiles, and some even have links to websites that claim to belong to them. But after careful observation, some false accounts are being forwarded from certain websites.   In addition to selling false accounts and fans, service providers are still engaged in forwarding business. Two security researchers said 5 messages a day for 9 dollars a month, forwarding 125 messages a month to charge 150 dollars.   For example, the Twitter account named Cilia Poon contains a Chinese profile and a Yahoo Health blog containing Chinese content, and has released more than 17,000 messages, but each message is forwarded by the tech blog The Next Web message.   The Next Web chief executive Zee Kane says the company knowsThis account, but never paid for false fans or false forwarding. He says this may be related to the spread.us of the Next Web tool, which allows others to automatically publish the content of the blog on Twitter, but the company stopped promoting the tool 8 months ago because it did not contribute much to the site's traffic.   service providers have revealed to two security researchers that the software can produce up to 100,000 new Twitter accounts in 5 days, and that business is good.   Twitter's standard for user accounts is different from Facebook's. Facebook insists that users bind to an account, and Twitter allows users to have multiple accounts at the same time. Twitter is also trying to crack down on fake content, but it's a lot harder.