So you started a Twitter account and now find yourself with zero followers. You’re not alone. Fortunately, if you have money, you can now have plenty of followers. A company based in Australia by the name of uSocial is selling blocks of followers, starting at $87 for 1,000 virtual admirers.
Leon Hill, chief executive of uSocial, said the company finds potential followers by searching Twitter and working out what individual users are interested in. It also profiles where people are so it can more closely match users with those they might want to follow.
USocial then sends messages to potential followers telling them about the new Twitter user they might want to follow.
“It’s up to the user to follow them or not,” said Mr Hill. He added that uSocial continues to look for followers until the specified number had signed up.
USocial has about 150 customers that had bought followers and had another 80-90 campaigns about to roll out.
