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(1) If you think money can’t buy you friends, think again. In the online worl
(1) If you think money can’t buy you friends, think again. In the online worl
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2024-09-10
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(1) If you think money can’t buy you friends, think again. In the online world, it’s possible to purchase a crowd of fans. One thousand cost only $ 18 on average, according to estimates by Barracuda Networks, a network security company. Yet these friends won’t meet you for drinks after work. In fact, they don’t even exist. They are pixels on a screen.
(2) A large share of social-media followers of the biggest companies are not human, believes Marco Camisani Calzolari, an entrepreneur and professor at Milan’s ILUM University. In a recent study he quantified the proportion of computer-generated fans or inactive users following big brands on Twitter. To decide whether a follower is human, Mr. Camisani Calzolari used various criteria, including the number of posts from a fan’s Twitter account and the use of correct punctuation in tweets. According to this research, by June 2011 nearly half of Twitter followers of computer maker Dell—about 700,000—were bots.
(3) Some politicians also seem to have many fake followers. Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential candidate, became the focus of media attention when his Twitter following swelled by 17% in a single day in July. On close inspection, a significant proportion of Mr. Romney’s followers appeared to be fake profiles. In Italy Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement lost the driving force when Mr. Camisani Calzolari made a similar claim about the followers of the comedian-turned-politician.
(4) There is no indication that any of the companies mentioned in Mr. Camisani Calzolari’s paper have bought followers—rogue bots often attach themselves to people and brands without payment. But some firms do buy a social media following. Fake profiles are at the center of a very vibrant and growing underground economy, says Barracuda Networks. On eBay, the e-commerce site, for instance, the firm’s researchers have found 20 sellers offering to set up such profiles.
(5) For start-ups a strong social media following can boost business. A small mom-and-pop shop struggling to sell its goods can look like a booming upstart thanks to a swollen Twitter account, or an artificially high number of Facebook likes. For major international companies, a small number of followers in the early stages of engagement with social media can be embarrassing at best and damaging to brand perception at worst. Buying crowds of fans—even if they aren’t engaged with the brand—can give an artificial boost to a business.
(6) For now, the trick works. "Normal people don’t know yet that there is this black market. Most have total trust that a brand’s followers are real," says Mr. Camisani Calzolari. But brands are already finding diminishing returns. When everybody has a large following, the impact is much diminished. And consumers are starting to cotton on to sharp practices. " The number of followers is a superficial measurement unless they are engaged," argues Carly Donovan of Ogilvy Action, an arm of Ogilvy & Mather, the advertisement and public relations agency. Money can buy you friends—just not very good ones. [br] The instance of eBay is cited to______.
选项
A、indicate the companies mentioned by Camisani have bought followers
B、suggest that there is no market for free rogue bots
C、prove fake profiles are at the center of a growing business
D、show the number of fake profile sellers is small
答案
C
解析
推断题。文章第四段最后一句提到,梭子鱼网络有限公司的研究员在易趣上已经发现了20个提供伪造资料服务的卖家。作者举这个例子是为了证明上一句提到的“梭子鱼网络有限公司称,伪造资料是充满生机、蒸蒸日上的地下经济的中心产业”。由此推知,伪造资料是一个新兴且不断发展的业务,所以选[C]。[A]“表明卡米萨尼所提及的公司曾购买过粉丝”与该段第一句提到的“没有任何迹象表明卡米萨尼-卡佐拉里先生论文中所提及的公司曾购买过粉丝”相反,故排除;该段第一句虽然提到免费的流氓软件,但并未谈及免费的流氓软件是否有市场,故排除[B];该段最后一句提到,梭子鱼网络有限公司发现20个提供伪造资料服务的卖家,但并未指出其人数很少,所以排除[D]。
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