[2015-02-14] 50% of the CryptoCoinsNews followers are probably fake

[LiteCoinGuy]

50% of the CryptoCoinsNews followers are fake

https://www.twitteraudit.com/cryptocoinsnews


they also pushed the Gaw-Scam so be carefull with this site:

CryptoCoinsNews and GAW Miners Sitting in a Tree… K I S S I N G.

https://medium.com/@BTCtom/cryptocoinsnews-and-gaw-miners-sitting-in-a-tree-k-i-s-s-i-n-g-afe20eecc080?r=reddit

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[Honeybooboo]

Interesting. They post a lot of crap stories around. What I want to know is how did you audit their twitter profile? When I tried to see what mine would be like it said I need to sign into my own account.

[cr1776]

Interesting. They post a lot of crap stories around. What I want to know is how did you audit their twitter profile? When I tried to see what mine would be like it said I need to sign into my own account.

I think you have to sign in to your account and then it can audit other accounts.  I logged in as mine and then audited a different one.

It isn't perfect because one I checked (who I know) has less than 10 followers and all are real, but it says 1 is fake.  It is all based on statistics so isn't perfect, particularly with small samples, but I guess should give a reasonable idea.

Interesting link...

[Honeybooboo]

Interesting. They post a lot of crap stories around. What I want to know is how did you audit their twitter profile? When I tried to see what mine would be like it said I need to sign into my own account.

I think you have to sign in to your account and then it can audit other accounts.  I logged in as mine and then audited a different one.

It isn't perfect because one I checked (who I know) has less than 10 followers and all are real, but it says 1 is fake.  It is all based on statistics so isn't perfect, particularly with small samples, but I guess should give a reasonable idea.

Interesting link...

Ah ok. I wouldn't expect it to be 100% accurate and there will be some false positives, but are you 100% sure all his follows are real? Some can look real on first glance but are clearly fake after a bit of investigation.

[Chef Ramsay]

There's so many bot accounts on Twitter plus many others that have been scammed out or taken over that many people, even if they're real at first, just end up giving up. The other active ones just get some service to find as many new followers as possible and don't even care if they're legit ones or not. The end game is that Twitter is just a spot for rich people to allow the boobeoisie to keep up to date with their favorite celeb - all for as much as 120 characters at a time. You could bust your ass w/ you account to grow it but there's far too many limitations for the average to get any sizable followings to disseminate whatever your agenda is that it ultimately becomes a waste of time. By the time you think you've made any significant progress, say 3-6 months or more, probably upwards of a quarter to half of your followers have went dormant, post very little to be almost worthless to you, or have been scammed out of their account so they've given up altogether. And let's face it, unless you're a celebrity of sorts for some particular genre, none of your followers are keeping up on your messaging in terms of scanning your timeline or whatever to retweet and/or reply. That said, unless your ever-so dwindling followings are actively checking out their timeline of which you are apart of, they'll never see your posting unless if you're constantly shelling out tweets all day long and you keep busting out similar tweets in hopes that a certain number of your active followers will see it and click your link or whatever. I've played the Twitter game and still do off and on for shits and giggles w/ a couple thousand followers but I ultimately consider it a waste of time because as I've said, if I did a personal audit I'd find out that likely half of them are dormant or not real anymore. That's Twitter for the average person in a nutshell.

[cr1776]

Interesting. They post a lot of crap stories around. What I want to know is how did you audit their twitter profile? When I tried to see what mine would be like it said I need to sign into my own account.

I think you have to sign in to your account and then it can audit other accounts.  I logged in as mine and then audited a different one.

It isn't perfect because one I checked (who I know) has less than 10 followers and all are real, but it says 1 is fake.  It is all based on statistics so isn't perfect, particularly with small samples, but I guess should give a reasonable idea.

Interesting link...

Ah ok. I wouldn't expect it to be 100% accurate and there will be some false positives, but are you 100% sure all his follows are real? Some can look real on first glance but are clearly fake after a bit of investigation.

I know the one with less than ten (6 followers in fact) are real since they are personally known - it is just that one of them hasn't tweeted or done anything, just registered and followed "to try it out." :-).  That would seem fake to the statistical analysis I am sure. 

It is a cool tool.

[Morguk]

Yeah I don't like CCN. I stick to coindesk, coinfire and cointelegraph.