It’s great what can be done with technology especially when it comes to communications. Twitter is tonight’s topic.
“Hugh you have a nice few followers but I reckon if you bought a few thousand you’d get rakes more followers!” This was the advice I was getting for about 6 months! One fellow told me about his friend from Frenchpark who bought 10,000 and gets 10 followers a day! “When you have lots of followers people just follow!” Money makes money!
Anyway I spoke to another friend in late June and said what I was being told. We agreed I should do an experiment and like all things to do with Lynn I forgot about it! More important things on my mind in July 14!
Anyway in August I was chatting to that friend again and we said that we should give it a shot. So here’s what we did. I bought 3,000 followers for $5.00 or just over €3. Where could you go wrong at €3.00? Nothing could go wrong!
Let me explain there are actually people who make a living from creating multiple twitter accounts and then selling them as followers. Twitter farmers we could call them. They breed these accounts and then harvest the crop i.e follow other accounts. They charge a dollar a thousand or even a euro. Handy money if you can get it.
So I sent the money to one of these farmers and waited and waited and then it started the followers arrived and I suddenly got 2,200 extra followers! So I was now down 800 that I had bought before I even started!
So what! I was up 2,200! Then it started! I began to lose followers. I was at 3,400 and then it was 3,000 and next it was down to 1800 and they kept dropping away!
Panic stations. Was I losing my genuine followers?? Need to be careful. So I started to watch my account. I signed up to unfollowers.com and discovered that these purchased followers were actually being suspended! (Twitter must not agree with “twitter farming”!)
So 100 days later I've less than 240 of these purchased followers left. I have increased my following but I think it’s due to what I’m saying and sharing! Lots of my new followers also retweet things that I’ve posted!
Moral of the story, like Fine Gael and the” Facebook likes” they purchased. I reckon it’s a) a waste of money b) a cause of distrust for genuine followers c) proof positive that Content is still the King.
Anyway I’ll not be buying anymore!
