Twitter looking to stop people from buying followers

You’ve probably seen something about these services that allow you to buy more followers on Twitter. They’ve become more than just a small problem on Twitter it seems. So much so that Twitter, itself, is finally looking to take some action against the pay for followers services.

The biggest culprit of this seems to be a company by the name of uSocial, which recently put out a press release stating it was contacted by a Twitter-hired brand management company. The company was concerned about the spamming of Twitter that uSocial is supposedly sending out. Seems like a reasonable complaint, except for the fact that uSocial claims it isn’t spamming the service at all. According to uSocial CEO Leon Hill, “spam is using electronic messaging to send unsolicited communication and as we don’t use Twitter for this, the claims are false.”

Hill actually does have a small point, though the ads that advertise paying for more followers could possibly be seen as spam. No matter how you look at it, uSocial just doesn’t seem to do much worthwhile when it comes to Twitter. It makes sense for Twitter to want to shut them down, but it might prove more difficult than Twitter thinks. There isn’t anything legally wrong with selling followers. it’s just a bit pointless. It speaks badly of both uSocial and those who actually pay to gain more followers. In a way it also gives some negative vibes to Twitter at times, which Twitter probably doesn’t like.

Read [CNet News]