Soundcloud follow spam?
Soundcloud follow spam? Posted on: 29.05.2012 by Ardell Vanvooren Hey,I was just wondering about all these accounts with 2k followers. I get spammed everyday by people following and then removing the follow. Is this some sort of bot? If so I don't understand what they could gain from following, and then removing the follow after a short period of time. The only thing I could come up with is that they want to abuse the email I receive saying "X has started follow you", "If you want to get updates on X tracks and comments you can start following X too". Have I missed something here, or is it simply abuse from some random bot? | |
| Carlee Newhoff 01.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by narrah
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| Carlee Newhoff 01.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by Xonetacular
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| Random X 01.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
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| Random X 01.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJ JesC
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| Ardell Vanvooren 02.06.2012 | Haha seriously, this can only be a bot, this guy "Alexy Perec" has been following & unfollowing me every second day now for 10 days, either that or he is really persistent. Worst thing is that I have a couple of these. http://soundcloud.com/alexeyperec alexyperec.png I believe I figured out how they do this. They apparently pay money for promoters. http://soundpromo.net/ "We will Follow10000 genre targeted users on Soundcloud for You!", "* we will unfollow them too". Nvm.. there are tons of bots as well that does this..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcdbBbLUawk Seriously how do you build up a brand on spam? If people spent more time on their music......... |
| Nikole Resende 31.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
I love that comments even more when I get them on dj-mixes telling me my track would fit perfectly on their friends' facebook page and might geht released on a compilation... But honestly, what I find so much more annoying than those follow/unfollow guys is people who follow you and then start spamming you with "private tracks". I've stopped counting how many of those notifications I find in my inbox everyday. |
| Ardell Vanvooren 30.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
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| Carlee Newhoff 01.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by narrah
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| Yevette Matatall 01.06.2012 | My mum follows me on SC |
| Carlee Newhoff 01.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by Xonetacular
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| Ardell Vanvooren 01.06.2012 | Wow, so I looked into how Soundcloud works and making a "bot" takes about...2 minutes... I don't understand why Soundcloud simply doesn't check any IP that does lets say 2k follows in 24 hours, and any account that does 200. Edit: Anyway, problem fixed, removed the email notifications.... |
| Random X 01.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
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| Random X 01.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJ JesC
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| Ardell Vanvooren 02.06.2012 | Haha seriously, this can only be a bot, this guy "Alexy Perec" has been following & unfollowing me every second day now for 10 days, either that or he is really persistent. Worst thing is that I have a couple of these. http://soundcloud.com/alexeyperec alexyperec.png I believe I figured out how they do this. They apparently pay money for promoters. http://soundpromo.net/ "We will Follow10000 genre targeted users on Soundcloud for You!", "* we will unfollow them too". Nvm.. there are tons of bots as well that does this..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcdbBbLUawk Seriously how do you build up a brand on spam? If people spent more time on their music......... |
| Romelia Stankard 31.05.2012 | Apparently soundcloud doesn't care about abuse, I mean electrode is still there and has made like 25,000+ comments. I guess the spam is working for him- http://soundcloud.com/blezzz420/comments |
| Leeanna Ayla 31.05.2012 | I report them |
| Nikole Resende 31.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
I love that comments even more when I get them on dj-mixes telling me my track would fit perfectly on their friends' facebook page and might geht released on a compilation... But honestly, what I find so much more annoying than those follow/unfollow guys is people who follow you and then start spamming you with "private tracks". I've stopped counting how many of those notifications I find in my inbox everyday. |
| Ardell Vanvooren 30.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
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| Leeanna Ayla 30.05.2012 | I love the comments that I get on tracks telling me that it's great stuff and how I it would fit in real well on their friends facebook page which is full of dubstep and electro. |
| Latoria Kavulich 30.05.2012 | followed. unfollowed |
| Cristian Carmona 29.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by karma
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| Jona Slon 29.05.2012 | People do it on instagram as well its so stupid some people must be so fragile if they desperately need followers that bad. |
| Cristian Carmona 29.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by Xonetacular
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| Romelia Stankard 29.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by JesC
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| Cristian Carmona 29.05.2012 | hey follow me on SC! kthxbye |
| Jona Slon 29.05.2012 | It is annoying man i find my follower count is always juggling up and down and is never static its pretty annoying lol |
| Ardell Vanvooren 29.05.2012 | Heh, it seems like they go through so much effort. I mean 2000 effin follows, and I get a couple of these emails per day. All with the same pattern, a profile with 2000 follows, but of course no longer following me. It bums me out as I like to follow people that follows me, but I don't want to support this abuse. |
| Romelia Stankard 29.05.2012 | Basically they follow you in the hopes that you follow them back to increase their followers number. Probably not bots. |
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