Does Anyone Buy Any Followers on FB, Instagram, Twitter?

[Grind22]

Just wanted to see if anyone is paying for follower bots to give the social a good kick start?

If so can anyone recommend any good sites?

I just want to get a couple of thousand followers on all three accounts, so that the site looks a bit more trusted?

 

[stackcash]

I think Fiverr.com has been the consistent choice for this type of thing. I've paid $5 for 10k followers, and about 2k ended up sticking.

 

[thewayway]

I feel like buying followers is a waste of $5

 

[MetaData]

I don't... With Twitter at least you aren't going to harm yourself (Unless they tweak how Twitter reach works down the road), with FB those fake likes are meaning a lower and lower % of your audience is engaging with your content, and I have a feeling that's a pretty big factor out of the 100,000 or so factors that FB says have an impact on how many people see your posts.

Fake likes are never going to engage, they're never going to give you any real social proof, they're never going to share your content, they're never going to buy from you, they're never going to tell their friends about your brand... I think it's a waste of time and money, when you can just pay a VA for a few hours to generate real Twitter followers, or just throw FB a handful of change to get your page rolling.

I guess it depends on the project tho, maybe there's a time for that.

 

[Grind22]

Iv seen people selling sites on flippa that have obviously paid for followers in the first instance then used tweepi or real follow/unfollow technique so that at a quick glance looks like real followers.

At the end of the day, people are followers, if visitors seen a site with 50k followers on, they are much likely to follow than if there was only 15.

 

[LPcopywriter]

I honestly don't know how you get real followers without buying some to start. I do try to make it look somewhat natural though. A 1000 like package on Fiverr comes out to about a few hundred when all is said and done. If you have good content and some traffic, it's easy to get rolling from there.

 

[RomesFall]

I don't... With Twitter at least you aren't going to harm yourself (Unless they tweak how Twitter reach works down the road), with FB those fake likes are meaning a lower and lower % of your audience is engaging with your content, and I have a feeling that's a pretty big factor out of the 100,000 or so factors that FB says have an impact on how many people see your posts.

Fake likes are never going to engage, they're never going to give you any real social proof, they're never going to share your content, they're never going to buy from you, they're never going to tell their friends about your brand... I think it's a waste of time and money, when you can just pay a VA for a few hours to generate real Twitter followers, or just throw FB a handful of change to get your page rolling.

I guess it depends on the project tho, maybe there's a time for that.

@MetaData I think you're dead on with Facebook... When you think about the downside it's just not worth it really.

I have used various services before, in those cases it was always used for an element of 'social proof'. Making the brand overall look bigger, even if social wasn't really important for the client or project.

I think a lot of people have done the same thing... Slap on some posts, intermittently update the page or one page and get some IFTTT automation on the side. All for the purpose of displaying likes, followers or whatever on your website.

If anyone ever clicks through the profile isn't completely dead and doesn't hurt you massively. I think everybody would rather build a real following for obvious reasons. Still never hurt me to kick Twitter up the arse with 1000 followers to get more people interested when I do get started.

I think as you say, you just need to look at it from the perspective of goals on a project by project basis and even individual social networks.

 

[tim2963]

I buy tons of followers, like, views, ect. However Facebook likes have been really expensive as of late. I typically buy a few thousand of each per local business project to just give them that "brand look".