New company, uSocial, lets you buy status on social networks

A new company is claiming it can offer background support on all the top social networking sites like Twitter and Digg – for a price.

uSocial says that if you are willing to fork over some cold hard cash they can boost your Twitter followers or Diggs by about a thousand in 7 days and 100,000 in a year. Their guarantee says that if they fail to do so they will give you an additional 20% for free.

So how much cash are they asking for? Anywhere from $87 for 1000 new followers to a nearly $3500 for 100,000. How do they find said followers? They search user interests to find ones that match yours then ask those people to follow or friend you. Hmm. Seems that’s easy enough to do yourself for free. It also sounds a little like spam.

I don’t have a huge social following – about 250 friends on Facebook and about 340 followers on Twitter. That’s probably a drop in the bucket to many folks, but really, is the point of such networks to have as many people as possible follow/friend you or is it to build deep and valuable connections? In other words, isn’t quality a lot more important than quantity? My follower/friend numbers aren’t large but I have a personal connection with every one of them. Can those with hundreds of thousands say the same?

Read [PCWorld]