How to become a SoundCloud superstar, one fake fan at a time

[legunner]

That's how facebook pages work?

cheeky but still you know what i mean.

[Cupe]

I think the point is that people think your shit is epic if you have loads of followers, which prompts them to also follow.

Then you build a fan base of bots and real people with actual interest.

The only issue here if it we're talking facebook, 8-12% of your fanbase sees anything you ever post, meaning 50-90% of those could be the bots

So you are essentially reaching around 1-5% of your real, legitimately interested fan base, and it decreases the more fake likes you have.

Pretty sure for the bigtime cunts it makes no difference, it's just some shit decision by their social networking managers division staff

[OxyKon]

I know this is about soundcloud not facebook but thought it was touching on the same subject, Beatport had released an article over night. They had found it from another site called Live for Live music

Taken from: http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/diplo- ... 3nd-fight/

Managers for Diplo and BL3ND literally duke it out at IMS Engage conference

Live for Live Music was on hand to witness a fight between Diplo and DJ BL3ND‘s managers at the IMS Engage in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon. With what was an enlightening experience of speeches, Q&A’s and informative discussions on Social Media in the music industry, turned into a WWE war zone when managers Kevin Kusatsu (Diplo) and Steven Haddad (DJ BL3ND) broke into fisticuffs.

The event is part of Ibiza’s International Music Summit, which brings together artists, managers, retailers, agents, and other music industry people to discuss the future of the dance music scene. Those speaking and in attendance include Pete Tong (who spearheaded the event), Skrillex, Beatport CEO Matthew Adell, Swedish House Mafia manager Amy Thomson, Russell Simmons and several other high-profile industry people.

Prior to the altercation, Diplo was heading the panel and discussing fake Facebook followers, a hot topic of conversation recently in the industry. Diplo began to discuss that, while he is a “more popular” DJ than DJ BL3ND, he has a mere 390,000 Facebook followers, compared with BL3ND’s 3 million. (DJ BL3ND’s most popular city is on Facebook is Mexico City, an obvious sign that his followers are bought.)

BL3ND’s manager, Haddad, was less than thrilled with the comments, especially when Diplo said that BL3ND’s statistics are questionable considering “he has only played a string of shows in the OC.” Haddad argued during the panel that BL3ND had sold out shows in New York and other areas, when Diplo’s manager, Kevin Kusatsu told Haddad to “Shut Up!” Diplo then commented, “I only have three hundred something thousand facebook likes, but I’m pretty sure I’m bigger than DJ BL3ND”.

While Diplo did his best to backtrack and make amends for the comments, saying that he is actually a fan of BL3ND’s, it apparently was not enough to stop Kusatsu and Haddad from going after each other, after initially attempting to talk it out civilly. The fight was eventually broken up by IMS officials, but has been the talk of the town since it occurred.

Deadmau5 texted Diplo, “Oh man the lols. I never understood this bl3nd character from the start, what kind of fucking idiot puts a number in his name, sticks on a mask, and pretends to DJ anyway” referencing himself.

Also if you click onto the link where this came from, you'll find a bunch of twitter comments from diplo and bl3nd, good for the lol's

[street]

lol @ deadmau5 comment

[OxyKon]

Lol that's what I was thinking, and the bl3nd guy just reminded me of crundos saying come at me bro

[GREMM1S]

Fucking hate bl3nd with a passion

[Gandy]

Hahaha I was reading deadmau5 and diplos tweets about this but didnt know the back story, all makes sense haha so good

[Tomy]

it's insane that the label in the article got featured on beatport and other sites. it was my understanding that Beatport is really picky with what they feature and they'll only do so when you have really good feed back & promo. So that's really out of character for them. Any one with half a brain can usually tell if someone has paid for fans or plays.

[street]

You can tell if someone has paid for fans for facebook usually by looking at the different between the number of people who have liked the page, compared with the amount of people who are "talking about this page." The bigger the difference, the more likely that they have payed for fans. Unless the artist is just really inactive for ages.

[legunner]

You can tell if someone has paid for fans for facebook usually by looking at the different between the number of people who have liked the page, compared with the amount of people who are "talking about this page." The bigger the difference, the more likely that they have payed for fans. Unless the artist is just really inactive for ages.

This + likes per post + age of page.

[street]

I think people 'talking about a page' is a combination of the number of unique people who have liked the page + number who have liked the status of the artist + number of people who have tagged the artist in a post or something like that. So retarded when there is an artist with a 5 figure likes number, and about 5 people talking about them lol.

[AlexJ]

another one to add to the lists

australian favourite maybe not as big as people think..

https://www.facebook.com/therealtommytrash/likes

a couple more

https://www.facebook.com/DavidGuetta/likes

https://www.facebook.com/rihanna/likes

https://www.facebook.com/JustinBieber/likes

im beginning to believe that either facebook does something like having a server there. it just seems to common that EVERY major artist i look up is not legit..shame

[street]

[Cupe]

HAHAHAHHAHA

[GREMM1S]

Nope the mexico city one is the big company that sells the likes.

There are other but for the big scale likes they go with them.

Pretty surprised with Tommy tbh, i thought his music would have been enough for him.

[Cupe]

Remember that the artist probably has little or no input into how their social media is dealt with

All that shit would be outsourced and done on their behalf

[GREMM1S]

Remember that the artist probably has little or no input into how their social media is dealt with

All that shit would be outsourced and done on their behalf

Yeah wrong, would probably be his marketing or management being like look how many likes you have now hehe.

[Cupe]

Now pay us extra for da fans

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