 Twitter for sale
 First it was popularity on social bookmarking sites like
StumbleUpon that was being sold and now Twitter is in the
sights of those looking to have their fame and status
artificially increased.
Web traffic and promotion company uSocial.net – who
famously received and ignored a Cease & Desist order from
Digg after selling votes on the site – have just launched a
service allowing Twitter users to purchase packages of
followers if they are having trouble attaining them on their
own.
Starting in packages of 1,000 and going up to 100,000
followers, the company launched the buy Twitter followers
service not long ago with what they say was a massive
response.
“It was obvious people had been looking for a service like
this for some time as the day we launched we actually had to
start turning people away before close of business,” said
uSocial CEO Leon Hill. “It was a shock, but within a couple of
days we revamped our systems to ensure we could handle
the workload.”
uSocial themselves own three of their own Twitter accounts
which have all been active for only seven weeks and each of
them number between 8,000 and 14,000 followers, totaling
over 30,000 people following their activities. It was the
methods they used to create this large follower base in such
a short amount of time that they now use on their clients
accounts.
“We’ve had everyone from churches and automotive blogs, to
Fortune 500 companies express interest and invest in our
services,” said Hill. “And with the growing popularity of
Twitter, we can only see an even larger variety of
organizations and businesses jumping on the bandwagon.”
The service is the second offered by uSocial that works on
unnaturally increasing rankings or popularity on a social
site. Upon their launch in December of 2008 the only service
the company offered was their paid social bookmarking
services which allowed clients to purchase votes on sites like
Digg and StumbleUpon. While they do now offer other
services such as press release distribution, it seems their
artificial popularity services are by far the most sought after.
“We have gotten some bad feedback about some of our
services, though we do get a lot more positive than negative
response,” said Hill.
uSocial no longer offer the paid social bookmarking services
on their site as they state they have a large number of
regularly contracted corporate clients who fill all their
available slots. Despite this, Hill says they will be reopening
this service for new clients very soon.
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