Thanks for chiming in. What were the expectations you took away from my post? "cannot expect an even distribution across the demographics" - I mentioned that if there were even a modicum of distribution. I was driving…
You raise a completely fair point, and conceptually I agree with you. Again, this entire example rests on the assumption that bots DO exist, which it sounds like they do based on everyone's comments so far. The point I…
The Veritasium videos on my post provide a decent counterpoint to the idea that there's a potential "credibility" upside of having a bunch of fake accounts like your page. For example, let's say you have a mix of 90%…
Part and parcel of me writing this post was to speak up about this on behalf of other folks who seemed to have experienced the same exact issue of wasting their own ad money trying to increase visibility through…
For the life of me, I have no idea. I replied above in another person's comment that it is no longer out of the real of possibility that one of FB's business models is to covertly financially support these click/like…
The parts I didn't include in the post due to length were the previous ads (boosted posts, promote page, etc) I created and paid for before this very last one that I wrote about on my blog. Those previous ads raised…
Indeed. I actually included (with links and credit) both of Veritasium's videos in the post. The rest of my post explains in detail my own experience with this problem, including data, screenshots, and my own email…
Thanks for chiming in. What were the expectations you took away from my post? "cannot expect an even distribution across the demographics" - I mentioned that if there were even a modicum of distribution. I was driving…
You raise a completely fair point, and conceptually I agree with you. Again, this entire example rests on the assumption that bots DO exist, which it sounds like they do based on everyone's comments so far. The point I…
The Veritasium videos on my post provide a decent counterpoint to the idea that there's a potential "credibility" upside of having a bunch of fake accounts like your page. For example, let's say you have a mix of 90%…
Part and parcel of me writing this post was to speak up about this on behalf of other folks who seemed to have experienced the same exact issue of wasting their own ad money trying to increase visibility through…
For the life of me, I have no idea. I replied above in another person's comment that it is no longer out of the real of possibility that one of FB's business models is to covertly financially support these click/like…
The parts I didn't include in the post due to length were the previous ads (boosted posts, promote page, etc) I created and paid for before this very last one that I wrote about on my blog. Those previous ads raised…
Indeed. I actually included (with links and credit) both of Veritasium's videos in the post. The rest of my post explains in detail my own experience with this problem, including data, screenshots, and my own email…