"To chime in along with other's here- I disagree with your premise. Applying a 30% discount, and then a further 10% off, is not the same as applying a flat 40% discount. It seems like the numbers are kept seperate to help make that clear.
I…"
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Lynne Mysliwiec replied to Capri's discussion How do you estimate the proportion of bogus accounts on Facebook?"I would estimate the number of unique, non-dead users to be smaller - perhaps 20-35% of all FB accounts."
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Our research has found a strong correlation between the number of daily "likes" on Google+, and the Google search impression volume for the web sites receiving these "likes".So, if you can generate fake "likes" without being detected by Google, you can easily boost the amount of free traffic (free impressions / free clicks) you get from Google.One way to proceed is tohire a few interns,ask them to create a few Google+ accounts (say 10 per intern),have the interns connect among themselves on…See More
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Vincent Granville replied to Capri's discussion How do you estimate the proportion of bogus accounts on Facebook?"This type of fraud could be motivated by different reasons, not necessarily with direct financial incentives. For instance, one might generate fake traffic (fake monitoring tags and/or fake referral)
to kill a competing sub-publisher (in this case…"
Razvan replied to Capri's discussion How do you estimate the proportion of bogus accounts on Facebook?"@Vincent: I do not think that posting the URL outside FB would work. For once, browsers (and HTTP standard, as far as I know) "report" the "referral page": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
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