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So he hired a bot for a month to do 30,000 likes. Anyone wonder how many of his own likes are from bots?

All this social media advertisement seems like one big fraud to me - from profile farms to click frauds, has any of the people buying the ads actually attempted to verify the actual increase in sales? Or maybe it just looks good in powerpoints when showing to the clients where the money is spent.



There's a good chance if you do not recognize the user liking your post, it's a bot hoping to get a followback.

Yeah it's fraud up and down the feed, and it looks great in spreadsheets. IG provides metrics on profile views and website clicks, that's one way to measure engagement as bots will usually skip that.




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