We are currently on Pinterest only so as to ride the Pinterest growth tide. However we will soon integrate Twitter, Tumblr and Youtube. We plan to be the one-stop solution for social media advertising.
It depends on number of factors one being number of followers that particular user has on Pinterest. An average user having 100 followers could make something between 1$ to 3$ per post.
If you haven't already, you guys should check out pinerly.com - it has the same concept although they focus more on the analytics side of things - still in beta though.
Not to mention the comments sounding like typical "made-up questions": "How much money can an active user actually make" and "What analytics do u provide".
Also two of them use the "u" which is not common at HN otherwise.
These are 4 hours old: jalicesmith, tellitop, trikadam, ketprince, rowdyrathore
Conclusion: viraliti.com is posting fake comments, stay away.
The payout happens on the 1st and 15th of every month and payout will only happen for amounts greater than $30. Though we are planning to reduce it to $10. Any suggestions are would be of great help.
Something similar was built by some guys from my university: http://www.linksert.net/ They focused on generating affiliate links which you could share with your friends. I find they kinda simplified the process.
A social media service which needs to promote itself with artificial conversation between sock puppet accounts on social media is not "genuine". Genuine means sincere and authentic, and this company appears to be neither. I try virtually every new advertising startup I come across on HN, but I won't be trusting my credit card to this one.
Amusingly I am still green and agree with you that it is sketchy. A wave of new accounts for a company that specializes in inserting product placement into what people consider to be normal communication... And it's one thing to make an account to ask a question about a service - that's plausible - it's quite another to make an account to say "nice site!". Mods should investigate.
What really bothers me is that it seems to have worked in pushing the link to the front page of Hacker News.
After copious experiences with trigger happy algorithms flagging me as a false-positive spammer, I am surprised that something as blatantly conspicuous as this managed to get so far - regardless of who orchestrated it.
It didn't last very long there. Once the sockpuppetry became evident, it was likely flagged by a few people, and is now nowhere to be found among the top 100 stories, whereas a highly voted front page story typically stays for 10+ hours. The user moderation system works.
It's especially interesting as my capacity to vote seemed to only kicked in today after a week of being green. The last week my votes seemed to go through but then the arrow reappeared on a later page load and the pages weren't in my saved stories. So it has to have made it to the front page without the help of the current commenting socks, but with votes from elsewhere (or even genuine users I suppose, but the socks put a big question mark over that).
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Edit: And most of the ids are created exactly 4 hours earlier or 12 days earlier.
Also two of them use the "u" which is not common at HN otherwise.
These are 4 hours old: jalicesmith, tellitop, trikadam, ketprince, rowdyrathore
Conclusion: viraliti.com is posting fake comments, stay away.
There's a furlong joke somewhere in here.
This is pretty sketchy.
After copious experiences with trigger happy algorithms flagging me as a false-positive spammer, I am surprised that something as blatantly conspicuous as this managed to get so far - regardless of who orchestrated it.