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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by neves on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:08PM (#17339842)
It is easy if you are a sophisticate internet user. All the other people will be impressed when you boast your amount of followers.
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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by tajen on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:04PM (#17340806)
So it will be easy for journalists and naysayers. Pretty much the most powerful people against you...
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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by VectorLock on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:44PM (#17341095)
It seems the trend is to dismiss these discoveries by saying it was somebody trying to push negative reputation on their brand or get back at them. How do you go about directly proving the individual bought clicks and not just inferring based on the patterns of their followers?
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Re:Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make? by benatkin on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:13PM (#17340863)
It's easy to deny. If it was a clear bad mark against an account to have fake followers, anyone could buy fake followers to discredit their competition.
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