You Can Purchase Those Twitter Followers

By Christopher Nickson
July 03, 2009

In a sign of the times, an Australian company offers a paid service for those who want followers on Twitter.

It’s a sign of the time, or possibly of the Apocalypse. Your popularity on micro-blogging service Twitter is measured by the number of followers you have – those who sign up to receive your Tweets, or messages you send. 

For those distinctly lacking in charisma, Australian service uSocial will sell you followers, at $87 for 1,000, going up to a block of 100,000, according to the BBC. And they’re not short of business. 

uSocial finds potential followers by searching Twitter for those with similar interests and locations. Then it messages those people to alert them about the person they might want to follow, although obviously the decision is theirs. It keeps going until the person has the number of followers that have been paid ...

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