[Irregardless]

"Internet famous" still involves actual humans being aware of your existence. This guy just bought some Twitter followers, posted a fake Wikipedia article, and then arbitrarily declared his alter ego internet famous. Color me unimpressed.

He could have at least tried to do something with this alter ego to test if his manufactured "fame" could withstand the slightest bit of human scrutiny. Instead, all he proved is that websites like Kred use faulty algorithms to measure social media influence.

At least we learned one thing, though: Kred is preying on giant companies like Procter & Gamble and Budweiser that still can't grasp the concept of social media.

[hayksaakian]

I think that was his point. By "Internet Famous" he is not actually famous to the greater internet, but convincingly appears so.

Obviously if put to the test, the crack experts on the internet could see through his BS via Google, but the people you would try to leverage being internet famous with tend not to be internet savvy -- hence his point about the large multinational companies getting suckered into kred.

[Irregardless]

> By "Internet Famous" he is not actually famous to the greater internet

So he's internet famous but not internet famous?

> . . .but convincingly appears so. Obviously if put to the test, the crack experts on the internet could see through his BS via Google

And it's convincing but not convincing?

I think you're being extremely generous by saying it would take an "expert" to see through his paper-thin facade.