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lessismore · 4282 days ago · link · · parent · post: 83 million Facebook accounts are fakes and dupes
We had a little more than 1 million registered accounts. I think that perhaps 5% of them were legitimate accounts and about only 1% of them were truly engaged on a daily basis.
FB has some interesting accounting methods. For example, if you login to Digg, but never visit FB, you're counted as an active user.
Only 5% legitimate? Were ther rest made by bots?
This is one reason most advertising models are so awful. The motivation becomes numbers. On the other hand, if people pay for the service, the motivation is to improve the service. I don't want to get into a situation where I am focusing on the number of visits we are getting. I want to only worry about the quality of the time spent here. Not saying that I am planning on charging a fee, but I'm not going to get painted into a corner. That's not why I started this site. Getting hits has no purpose.
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lessismore · 4282 days ago · link ·
Yups. Only 5%. I would say that most of them were spam bots. It got so bad that I just started blacklisting whole countries.
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