How to become Internet famous for $68
A lot of this boils down to: it's hard to follow links.<p>Someone's massive Twitter following is simply a large list of links to follow up on...and determining their fakeness is algorithmically but who has the time to check each follower's activity level? Most social media "professionals" I know have no clue except to trust a paid-for black box analysis service.<p>And many well-accepted Wikipedia articles have plenty of dead links in their footnotes, even though such cruft should be easy to red flag. What's harder to diagnose are footnotes that refer to information in print. If I told you that, among my accomplishments, the story of how I built my fortune is referred to on pages 106-118 of one of Malcolm Gladwell's early, more obscure titles...how many Wikipedia editors would bother to look that up? Or maybe I just make up a book and enter in a random ISBN.<p>It's still all-to-easy to avoid examination by promising that the original source of the info is just one click away. As long as you don't inspire anyone to vet you out of jealousy or spite, you could go undetected for a long while, despite the power of the hyperlink