{"id":5133,"date":"2012-07-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2012-07-11T01:24:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T05:24:12","slug":"manipulating-app-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/manipulating-app-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulating App Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/070812_1927_Manipulatin1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>App makers may be using manipulative tactics to make their apps seem more popular than they are, writes Ryan Tate, in a bid to draw investors. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Those who produce apps have several avenues to artificially boost their numbers. They include:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Offering users virtual money in one popular app, in exchange for asking them to download another app made by the same publisher.<\/li>\n<li>Spamming social networks such as Facebook.<\/li>\n<li>Being slow in removing inappropriate content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The rewards from doing so can be substantial. Viddy, hailed by many as the next Instagram, raised $30 million. Its traffic decreased by more than 50% soon after.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including other ways that apps can manipulate their numbers, other app-makers who may have engaged in these practices, what industry experts have to say, which app-stores are the most vulnerable, what the app-stores have tried to do, and why app-makers keep trying, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2012\/07\/app-dirty-tricks\/all\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2012\/07\/app-dirty-tricks\/all\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App makers may be using manipulative tactics to make their apps seem more popular than they are, writes Ryan Tate, in a bid to draw investors. Highlights include: Those who produce apps have several avenues to artificially boost their numbers. They include: Offering users virtual money in one popular app, in exchange for asking them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/070812_1927_Manipulatin1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}