{"id":8497,"date":"2013-04-07T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8497"},"modified":"2013-04-07T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T15:07:03","slug":"the-economics-of-fake-twitter-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-fake-twitter-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Fake Twitter Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/040713_1501_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nicole Perlroth delved into the world of fake twitter accounts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to researchers there are up to 20 million fake twitter accounts floating around.<\/li>\n<li>The going rate is about $18 for 1,000 followers.<\/li>\n<li>This means the overall market for fake Twitter followers could be worth as much as $360 million.<\/li>\n<li>The same account can be sold to multiple buyers. In fact buyers prefer this since it makes the fake twitter account look more authentic.<\/li>\n<li>Retweets can also be brought. Five a day costs $9 a month.<\/li>\n<li>Up to 10,000 new accounts can be created in less than a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about Twitter&#8217;s efforts to crack down on the practice, how Twitter has a different conceptualization of identity than Facebook, and how the numbers were determined over <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/05\/fake-twitter-followers-becomes-multimillion-dollar-business\/\">here<\/a>. And you can become one of our (very real) Twitter followers over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Centives\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/05\/fake-twitter-followers-becomes-multimillion-dollar-business\/\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Perlroth delved into the world of fake twitter accounts: According to researchers there are up to 20 million fake twitter accounts floating around. The going rate is about $18 for 1,000 followers. This means the overall market for fake Twitter followers could be worth as much as $360 million. The same account can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/040713_1501_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8500,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions\/8500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}