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Facebook botting again?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/bots-raise-their-heads-again-on-facebook/

So is that their business model? Hmmmm...

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Re: Facebook botting again?

I just loved the bit towards the end of that article:

"The one big upside for the company was this: Since Monday’s blog post, its followers on Facebook have doubled to 800 people."

So their targetted advertising spend netted them a whole 400 followers, but a simple blog post doubled that overnight. What was the point of the advertising again? If I were running that company I'd be calling in the marketing droid who came up with the idea of promoting them via FB and inviting them to leave the company. Now.

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