"I would estimate the number of unique, non-dead users to be smaller - perhaps 20-35% of all FB accounts."
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Our research has found a strong correlation between the number of daily "likes" on Google+, and the Google search impression volume for the web sites receiving these "likes".So, if you can generate fake "likes" without being detected by Google, you can easily boost the amount of free traffic (free impressions / free clicks) you get from Google.One way to proceed is tohire a few interns,ask them to create a few Google+ accounts (say 10 per intern),have the interns connect among themselves on…See More
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Vincent Granville replied to Capri's discussion How do you estimate the proportion of bogus accounts on Facebook?
"This type of fraud could be motivated by different reasons, not necessarily with direct financial incentives. For instance, one might generate fake traffic (fake monitoring tags and/or fake referral)
to kill a competing sub-publisher (in this case…"
Razvan replied to Capri's discussion How do you estimate the proportion of bogus accounts on Facebook?
"@Vincent: I do not think that posting the URL outside FB would work. For once, browsers (and HTTP standard, as far as I know) "report" the "referral page": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
Which doesn't mean one…"
Vincent Granville replied to Capri's discussion How do you estimate the proportion of bogus accounts on Facebook?
"Here's another way Facebook generate revenue: when you post a Wall Street article on your FB timeline, any click that is generated results in a commission paid by the Wall Street Journal, to Facebook.
I checked a link to a WSJ article…"
Angela Waner replied to Capri's discussion How do you estimate the proportion of bogus accounts on Facebook?
"Would one activity include just logging into Facebook? I had a relative who just logged in to see pictures. She did not like or post anything. I would assume she is not the only person who behaves this way."
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