The Faulty Economy Of Fake Followers

It’s happened to everybody.

- Anthony Elio

You start up your new social media account, begin unloading your revolutionary thoughts onto the world, and you get the wonderful notification that a complete stranger wants to follow your social media activity. However, you then quickly find out that the follower is a programmed bot, a barely-used account, or a scammer using someone’s bikini-clad image as their profile picture. In other words, someone that doesn’t care what you had for breakfast this morning.

Fake users dominate the internet. According to The Atlantic, over half of internet traffic is due to bots. And social media is no different.