Take this with a grain of salt. The "company" has 400 likes. Not exactly GM leav...

crazygringo · on July 30, 2012

I don't see what their number of likes has to do with bots clicking on their ads.

If true, Facebook should really have anti-fraud measures in place for this kind of thing already, and if they don't, the size of the company in question has no relevance to that.

kstenerud · on July 30, 2012

timaelliott, I can't respond to your comment so I'm responding to its parent. Your account has been hellbanned as of 9 days ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4272758

JonnieCache · on July 30, 2012

The huge market represented by the "long tail" of small companies is the reason FB is valued so highly. It is (supposedly) much bigger than the GMs of the world.

vegardx · on July 30, 2012

They are talking about ads, not "likes".

muyuu · on July 30, 2012

I think he didn't imply that. Obviously a company with 400 likes is not a big player in the Facebook ad space, it was just a measure of popularity.

Obviously the news here is not the loss of business for Facebook, but the fact that a click scam was taking place (if true).

vegardx · on July 30, 2012

Because they are not related. You can use them just as you would with Google Adsense. Obviously you can get a lot of free advertisement and edorsement with having people "like" you on Facebook, but that is beside of the point.

And the click scam, if true, will take away the only way for Facebook to monetize the product. Marketers are not stupid, things like this spread like wildfire.

spaghetti · on July 30, 2012

Would be nice to see some actual numbers. If "80% of clicks" is only eight clicks then the OP's post doesn't carry much weight.