Is it better to have no likes? While it does give a slight hit on engagement, the increase in the amount of people who are willing to like your page increases dramatically, resulting in actual engagement much quicker.
Yes, it is. There are ways to build authentic engagement and attention. The only usable situation for this is for prototyping at scale: if youre software needed to stress test reading through a fan page with x number of fans or likes in order to understand how it works.
Otherwise it's no different than fixing your books, cheating on your taxes, modding your console so you can have better performance in leaderboards, etc. And activity like this will put a black mark against your startu for years to come.
You could actually get those small businesses booted off Facebook once Facebook gets its fraud detections algorithms in order (i.e. on a par with those of, say, Google). Which probably isn't too far off.
Same comment goes for all other services of this nature out there.
A lot of people on HN are starting companies and trying to establish themselves with social media(twitter, facebook, etc.). This gives them the jumpstart they need to get their pages and handles running.
People don't like to follow a handle or like a page that has very few likes. Getting those first 1000 followers or 500 likes makes a huge difference in the amount of people who actually end up hitting "follow" or "like"
Great, now we just need someone to start selling paying users. I'm sure people would pay for that. Or else they can just use their own service and observe unbounded growth.
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Same comment goes for all other services of this nature out there.
Moreover, this is not at all relevant to the HackerNews community.
If you can share valuable insights as to why this is a good or bad thing for businesses to do, then that might be more useful.
People don't like to follow a handle or like a page that has very few likes. Getting those first 1000 followers or 500 likes makes a huge difference in the amount of people who actually end up hitting "follow" or "like"
It's funny, but Twitter will clearly drop the hammer on this. It's bad for the ecosystem overall.