Software Engineer and Writer
I’ve been in the Instagram Growth space since 2017. I’ve never owned a service myself, but I’ve come to know the ins and outs of the business. In 2021, people still are willing to pay for “real” followers, and plenty of services
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This year, I’ve spent a lot of time on LinkedIn. It’s informative and, at times, entertaining. I just like to know what’s going on. As my network has grown, though, I’ve been disappointed to see how much of my feed is
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Most Instagram users log in from their cell phone and never think about it ever again. However, those managing accounts for others will quickly realize that they need to use proxies in order to distribute their activity away from a single IP
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In January of last year, I reached one hundred followers on Goodreads. I was excited at the prospect of having my work recognized, though hesitant to assign significance to the number while unsure of how active and legitimate these users
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As of late I’ve found myself stumbling through the “new” Snapchat. I don’t use the app as much as I once did, and now it seems that every time I tap the icon and perform a few rudimentary swipes I
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Notes: This is an article that I wrote, almost entirely, in February 2018. I never published it. I found it two and a half years later and basically published it as-is. This week’s New York Times exposé–The Follower Factory–has brought a renewed
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I recently hit one hundred followers on Goodreads. I’m not sure what it means. Goodreads, with a user base purportedly in the tens of millions, is virtually unknown in the world of social media marketing. Performing a Google search for
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: December 24th, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon This book wasn’t what I was expecting. I guess that’s what
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I used to be really into Twitter. Up until the end of my sophomore year of college, which was not as long ago as I’d like to believe, I was tweeting regularly. Today, aside from the accessibility of popular users and the
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