I cherish my Twitter followers, each and every one of them, even those who never favourite my tweets. This is why I was hit hard as my followers count plummeted from 1,737 to just 773 overnight. I went from being the most followed person in my sixth form to, quite frankly, a nobody. My prestige was tarnished and my self-respect ceased to exist.
Regardless of the detrimental affair, which I can only compare to the time my beloved pet fish passed away in the summer of this year, I started for sixth form. Admittedly, I've never had a gung-ho attitude towards school, and being asked by a friend if I'd posted something controversial online to spark the debacle was merely a poignant reminder of this morning's cataclysm, a topic I wished to avoid.
The truth is, the followers were never entirely legitimate. Without prior warning, my boyfriend bought me 1,000 followers from purchasemorefollowers.co.uk, the accounts owned by click farms. I didn't ask for it, yet immediately knew he was accountable for my upsurge in followers. The reason, he claimed, was that he had 'spare' followers from a bulk-buy he'd intended for use as birthday gifts. At just £17.99 for 5000 followers, you can hardly blame him.
Other than my boyfriend, none of my friends knew what a click farm was and subsequently struggled to display any kind of empathy, leaving me feeling further disheartened. Click farms aren't well-known and that's why I love them. I got away with gaining 1,000 followers and no one questioned their validity because, as far as friends were concerned, there was no ulterior way to gain followers than to patiently wait whilst refreshing the Twitter notifications page every few minutes.
Click farms, essentially human battery farms due to the poor working conditions, require employees to churn out thousands of clicks, or follows, per day on the account purchasers so desire. According to iTWire, workers with relatively basic English skills are paid minimal amounts of money to work grueling 12 hour shifts. Click fraud is a crime and these farms subsequently have a propensity to be shut down if the accounts of workers, which are often in the thousands, are de-activated.
Visiting Who.Unfollowed.Me confirmed my suspicion that those who unfollowed me were accounts belonging to click farms, however, much to my disgust, Purchase More Followers' website is still fully functional, suggesting this incident could be the fault of Twitter.
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I contacted Purchase More Followers who promise "the best customer support"; they claim to reply to customers within an hour. Since emailing, I lost an additional 100 followers. Having received no response from them I can only assume they have no intention of rectifying the problem.
I endeavour to one day visit one of the world's largest click farms in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to seek answers behind the possible reasons resulting in the dramatic fall in my followers count and discover who is to blame. In the meantime, I solemnly swear I'll relentlessly email Purchase More Followers until they revive me of my pride, something I truly can't live without.
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