How do you spot fake likes online?

This is very symptomatic of fake likes - a sharp spike then a flatline usually means the likes were purchased from a like farm. There's nothing wrong with paying for proper exposure through Facebook ads, but taking a shortcut like this (buying fake followers to increase your numbers) will actually hurt your page - the more fake followers you have, the less real followers will actually see your content.

The Facebook News feed algorithm works like this - it shows content to a few people first, and if it is liked/commented, it is then shown to more. That's why although you might have liked hundreds of pages, you only see posts from a select few, and it tends to be the better posts.

1,800+ likes, but only 3 people 'Talking About This'? That's less than 0.2% of people engaged with the page! However this in itself doesn't mean the likes are fake, the person might just be boring...

If the person has bought fake likes, those accounts serve only to boost the numbers - they don't actually "see the posts" or interact with the page. The following things (but not limited to these) count towards 'Talking About This' of a page

• like a page
• post on the page wall
• like/comment on or share a post
• mention the page in a post / tag the page in a photo
• check in on a page (for those with addresses defined)

This page has 100,000+ likes. But a quick look at those that liked some recent posts show a lot of users have no personal images, no picture, or don't show their real profile pictures (cartoon character, pet etc).

In addition, their profiles are only sharing news or political/commercial image flyers.

A low number of friends on the individual profiles of page fans is also reason to suspect - remember, Malaysians have one of the highest number of Facebook friends in the world.

These are the followers from the Instagram account of someone who has "17,000 followers". She is followed by Instagram user "BUYFANS" who offers 'cheap followers and likes'. It's a bit too obvious la.

If the person has many Instagram followers without profile pictures, and no posts and those accounts are followed by very few people...it's quite likely they are fake followers. There are some real followers here in this screenshot.

Not only followers can be bought, likes and comments can be bought too. If you see that the comments section is too irrelevant or spammy, there's a high chance that the comments are a creation of a spambot, not from actual users.

http://www.twittercounter.com will let you monitor your own statistics as well as others. Sudden spikes that don't continue growing usually mean fake followers were bought!

This website helps you find out who has fake followers on Twitter : http://fakers.statuspeople.com/. PS: You can run it on your own account too to find out how many of your followers are inactive!

Having a few new followers is one thing...but having too many followers who've just set up new accounts is very suspicious.

From 4 figure to 5 figure to 6...

It'll be great to reach out to them

Have it be seen by more followers, & fans!

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Leng Yein has over 2 million likes. However that doesn't mean she doesn't want her page to grow even further - and to the right audience. In fact, she isn't my only client in the 1 million + range. I've got clients in the 3, 4 and 5 digit range - who won't stay where they are for long :)

Check out the image to find out what Lucien from Belispree thinks of our service - we not only increased his page likes, but also increased product photo views from potential customers on his page.