Need 10,000 Facebook fans? That'll be $1,167.A company called uSocial has been offering a service that sells Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. followers followers see dairy herd. to people at a set rate, and announced Thursday that it will start selling "friends" on Facebook. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. <a href="http://usocial.net/" target="_blank">uSocial</a>, a Twitter follower is worth ten cents Ten Cents has several meanings:
To get 5,000 new Facebook friends will cost 7.6 cents per "friend" for a total of $654.30 while Facebook "fans" are more expensive. For 10,000 Facebook fans, it will cost you 8.5 cents per fan for $1,167.30. Adage quotes uSocial CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Leon Hill from a statement, "Facebook is an extremely effective marketing tool, as anyone with a large number of targeted friends, or fans can attest To solemnly declare verbally or in writing that a particular document or testimony about an event is a true and accurate representation of the facts; to bear witness to. To formally certify by a signature that the signer has been present at the execution of a particular writing so as to. The only problem is that it can be extremely difficult to achieve such a following, which is where we come in." Meanwhile, Facebook doesn't see it that way. "We're just beginning an investigation now, but it's clear to us that potential customers of their service should be cautious," Facebook said in a statement. "The value of a person that is tricked, coerced or bribed into being a Facebook friend or fan is extremely limited and may actually work against whatever goals the customer is attempting to achieve," the statement continued. Facebook's terms of service (networking) Terms Of Service - (TOS) The rules laid down by an on-line service provider such as AOL that members must obey or risk being "TOS-sed" (disconnected). prohibit the use of "personal profiles for commercial gain," so if uSocial is paying people to be their friends of fans, Facebook may soon ban the service. In its defense, USocial says that all it does is send friend requests on the behalf of the buyer and the receiver determines whether or not to accept the request. Reuters quotes Hill saying, "All we do is send them a welcome message or friend request from the client. If they decide to go ahead and add that person as a friend or a fan then they will; if not, then they won't." |
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