XRP is manipulating social networks

[StephenJH]

Social media is used as shilling tools for scam projects and XRP takes its piece of cake from these promotions. XRP has better real use case than shitcoins but this alone doesn't make any sense to shill XRP hard on twitter.

[timmmers]

So the XRP army wasn´t real?  
So, if almost all of them were fake, who is really buying Ripple token? Also fake buyers with fake volumes?

I bet that also another "bank" cryptocurrencies will be hyped by fake people to attract atleast some investors.

[Gary Levanevskii]

I think that this may adversely affect the reputation of this coin. Investors do not like when the coin has a bad reputation.

[cryptolidus]

XRP is doing a very good marketing job and advertising very successfully, using celebrities as well. I am surprised
they were using unethical methods as well, but where the  big money is involved ethics is suspended sometimes.

[fortunecrypto]

XRP was caught manipulating the social networks with fake accounts to shill XRP coin and post false positive feedbacks about it. On Twitter were many fake accounts detected and deleted for their abuse to maximize the price of XRP in an illegal and shady way. At least 8,000 Twitter fake accounts were detected.
Another bad attempt from XRP and a red flag to avoid investments in XRP.

More information here:

https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/infamous-crypto-twitter-xrp-army-gets-called-out-for-fake-accounts-astroturfing-public-opinion/

This could be the reason, why they wrestled the second spot to Ethereum, well at least contributed, they have no running bounty campaign right now, they should at least have one because there is a possibility that they will lose their third position, because EOS and LITECOIN is getting good volumes maybe if coinmarketcap is not faking their volume XRP is not in that position after all.

[Coin-1]

This could be the reason, why they wrestled the second spot to Ethereum, well at least contributed, they have no running bounty campaign right now, they should at least have one because there is a possibility that they will lose their third position, because EOS and LITECOIN is getting good volumes maybe if coinmarketcap is not faking their volume XRP is not in that position after all.

The Ethereum blockchain has been improved by hardfork called "Constantinople" in January 2019. Mining rewards were reduced, that's why the ETH price has soared from $80 to $150, and now Ethereum is rated the second at CoinMarketCap again.

Of course, Ripple is a good competitor to Ethereum, and bankers who like XRP can manipulate social networks to attract other investors. As I see, the BTC, ETH and XRP price charts are almost the same, so this likely manipulation did not affect the Ripple.

[tsaroz]

Ripple is trying hard to prove itself as a worthy coin but all of their promises and approach to be integrated to banks and their internal and external transfers to date have failed. They once called themselves an alternative to swift or even the western union but are now forced to buy fake accounts to write praise for themselves.