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Twitter and the underground market
Carlo De Micheli & Andrea Stroppa
11th Nexa Lunch SeminarTurin - May 22nd, 2013
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~$ whois Carlo De Micheli
• Blogger @ Huffington Post
• Founder of an Italian civic engagement project
• Security Researcher @ Security Brokers
• Aerospace Engineering Student at the Polytechnic University of Turin
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~$ whois Andrea Stroppa
• Blogger @ Huffington Post
• Writes for Repubblica and La Stampa
• Founder of an Italian civic engagement project
• “One of the most influential people on the Italian web scene” - La7
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A little bit of history...
• 500M registered users
• 58M tweets/day
• 59% monthly active users
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A little bit of history...
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More history...
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What we saw
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Fake accounts
• We estimated fake accounts make up for 4% of Twitter’s user base
• Does this make sense?
• Facebook makes it harder to create fake accounts yet openly declares: “As of June 30, 2012, we estimate user-misclassified accounts may have represented approximately 2.4% of our worldwide MAUs and undesirable accounts may have represented approximately 1.5% of our worldwide MAUs.”
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The market size estimate• Every account can follow up to 2000 people
• By statistically excluding overlapping fake accounts,just on the 12 main marketplaces (Fiverr, SeoClerks, InterTwitter, FanMeNow, LikedSocial, SocialPresence, SocializeUk, ViralMediaBoost), it turns out there are around 20M fake followers on sale right now.
• Followers are sold at an average price of $18/1000 followers (barracudalabs)
• Sellers can make between $2 and $36 per fake account
• Multiplying it out definitely shows a multi-million-dollar market
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Fake Followers
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Why buy fake followers?
Techcrunch reports “There’s a tremendous cachet associated with having a large number,” comedian Dan Nainan told The New York Times, after admitting to buying 220,000 fake followers. “When people see that you have that many followers, they’re like: ‘Oh, my goodness, this guy is popular. I might want to book him.” Presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have both been accused of trying to appear more tech-savvy by buying their way to fame.
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What do followers mean?
• Legitimacy
• Popularity
• “For some, it's a status symbol, the holy grail of being on Twitter, for others by-product of successful community building. However, no matter what your motivation is, the more followers you have means the more people you can either influence or learn from and this is priceless” - Nathan Frietas, Salesforce Blog
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What do fake followers mean?
• If people don’t know about it:
• Popularity
• Makes it easier to get new followers
• If people find out:
• Credibility & Reputation issues
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What do fake followers mean?
• “As unethical as it sounds, there are even people who buy followers for other people’s accounts so that they can point the finger and call them out as a fake”- Britt Michaelian, WorkSmart
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Who doesn’t want fake followers?
• Social media agencies say:
• Fake followers are...
• Easy to spot
• It takes time to build a quality following
• Fake followers look unsurprisingly fake
• Your credibility will be tarnished
• You gain absolutely nothing!16
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You gain absolutely nothing... are we sure about this?
• Trending tweets & hashtags get more hits17
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# of followers
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What happens to the followers?
• Twitter bans them
• They automatically un-follow if not followed18
# of followers
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Examples
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Mercedes Benz
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Jared Polis
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Red BullStratos
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MTVMusic Awards
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It’s not always their fault
• How Twitter (real & fake) account creation works:
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It’s not always their fault
• How Twitter (real & fake) account creation works:
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Re-Tweets
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Why have many re-tweets?
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The Re-Tweets ProblemDuring the same week the article on NYTimes was published, Forbes was saying...
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Techcrunch Retweets
Source: Forbes
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number of retweets in 24h
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Mashable Retweets
Source: Forbes
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number of retweets in 24h
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Notice something different?
Source: Forbes
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number of retweets in 24h
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All re-tweets of The Next Web
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Not following anyone
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The Re-Tweets Problem
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The Business
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Selling real followers
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Selling fake followers
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Real accounts
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What is the variable cost of creating a Twitter account?
$ 0/fake account
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What is the variable cost of creating a Facebook account?
$ 0.50/fake account
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Is this happening on Facebook as well?
53.334 Likes
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What we learned from our research
• All user interactions on the main social networks can be easily faked
• There is no way to effectively measure a company’s presence on social networks
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Advertising $$$
• Is advertising on social networks worth it?
Cost of a Like through Facebook Adv: $1.07 (WSJ)
Cost of a Like on the black market: $0.05
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Q/A ?
Twitter and the underground market
@carldemic @andst7
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