How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex

Re:How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex by bjoernbu on Thursday November 24, 2011 @09:57AM (#3274473)

I personally know multiple, sad people who maintain 10+ fake facebook acoounts in order to create fake images of themselves. I can easily imagine really high rates of those people in such a network. Especially if there is nobody trying to avoid this kind of accounts.

I don't know if there is any benefit you could get by having many accounts, but if there is, I'm really sure it is used a lot.

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Re:How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex by GFischer on Thursday November 24, 2011 @10:06AM (#3274492)

I know a lot of people that have multiple Facebook accounts, some are kids that want to push different updates to different people for example, or a "games" account.

Others are men with a "dating" account and a "family" account.

I guess the same happens in Badoo. Also, they must have a lot of dead accounts and count them (much like Microsoft does).

Their numbers do seem inflated, I don't know how much (50%? 100%?). I'm their active users must be at least an order of magnitude lower (my own account is inactive at the moment).

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