[godzillabrennus]

I tested these kinds of pay for follower services a few years ago. I had 75k twitter followers in less than a week for under $100.

Within three months I had 13k

Within a year I had about 2k

It hovered around there.

On facebook I bought 3k likes for around $30

I still have 1k likes for that page.

Basically, the only reason I have read that you would want to buy followers is that it can help boost your SEO ranking. It will not last long though and I bet the big social media companies start monitoring for it happening to your account/page if they detect abuse.

[jldugger]

I could see a marketing manager realizing that 100 bucks of personal money could easily earn it back in annual reviews time.

[halviti]

I'm not sure about twitter, but for Facebook fake likes actually hurt you because they use algorithms to figure out what to display and to who. The more fake likes you have, the less likely people who actually liked your page are to have your post show up in their feeds.

[joelrunyon]

Boosting your followers will not boost your SEO ranking - where did you hear that?