Comments on: Faking it on Social Media: What are the Costs?

By: ltcassociates

ltcassociates — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:28:58 +0000

For what it’s worth, StatusPeople (the site referenced in this article), is what I would call “Not Ready for Prime Time”. It does not deliver consistent, accurate results, and considering the Salem Witch Trials which ensue from using its product, arguably should be tabled until they can produce a verifiable output.

I have notified the company repeatedly about specific issues (after several weeks, they informed me that their “customer feedback form” went straight into “junk mail”), before finally contacting them via Facebook. Although they are now aware of the problem, they have never remedied it, nor published any statement to their customers to my knowledge (even though presented proof that they were delivering inaccurate results).

The only solution they proposed was to offer me a one-month refund.

To the rest of you, I would not rely on the results you receive from a StatusPeople search. Sorry, wish I had better news to report. I love the concept, I really do. Maybe another company will spring up and duplicate the app, with better success.

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By: Tinu

Tinu — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:27:33 +0000

It’s absolutely true that fake followers are the top level of a cascading avalanche of failure. If you have fake or inactive followers, they can’t or won’t respond to your content. That will throw your numbers off. And I say that from years of testing what the RESULTS of these actions are rather than passing a morality-based judgement — it just doesn’t work to have more followers than the action on what you share can back up. But given than even the official Twitter account has 33% fake or inactive folllowers, it makes me wonder how scientific this method of measuring which followers are fake and which are simply inactive. Unlike MySpace where everyone was automatically Tom’s friend, Twitter isn’t set up so that you have to follow Twitter when you first use Twitter. You have to manually follow at least your first follower.

By: Frank_Strong

Frank_Strong — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:15:24 +0000

@ryancox No worries brother. @sacevero

By: ryancox

ryancox — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:44:22 +0000

@sacevero @Frank_Strong It was a bad attempt at giving my friend Stacey a little grief. I thought my tone, albeit odd choice to some, was 100% clear I was joshing with a friend. I didn’t mean to give anyone a thought that what I was saying wasn’t just friends picking on friends. Stacey is total legit. Sorry for the confusion, it was (in hindsight) poor taste on my part.

By: sacevero

sacevero — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:26:09 +0000

@Frank_Strong <— Best. Boss. Ever. @ryancox You’re lucky you’re an actual friend :p

By: Frank_Strong

Frank_Strong — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:55:35 +0000

@ryancox I see. Could not discern that from the chatter here. I can take hits; but one thing that makes horns grow out of my head is picking on my team. It’s a strength and a weakness. Besides, I was thinking to myself, how can anyone possibly want to pick on Ace? @sacevero

By: ryancox

ryancox — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:50:13 +0000

@Frank_Strong @sacevero Frank I was just giving a friend a hard time! lol No worries! (sorry for any confusion)