Some people make seven figures to post on social media

31 Aug 2016

But the amount someone is paid depends on more than just the number of followers, said Ryan Schram, chief operating officer of online social media marketplace IZEA. The problem with relying on the number of followers is that the figure can be faked, he said.
"I could get you 1 million followers by tomorrow, but certainly it's not legitimate," he said. "It could be bots or strangers you haven't met from Kazakhstan. It's probably not real people."
More important is the number of engagements — including favorites, comments or likes a person is able to get, Schram said. It also matters to look at how likely that paid post will be seen after it publishes, for example how many times a YouTube video would be viewed over the course of two years.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/31/some-people-make-seven-figures-to-post-on-social-media.html

Celebrities’ endorsement earnings on social media

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/10/daily-chart-9

Prayers on demand: startups make hay as religious fervor sweeps across $40b market

Religious and spiritual activities in India are a multitude and go on round the year. A range of startups have sprung up to cater to this market estimated to be worth US$40 billion.

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OnlinePrasad, for example, delivers prasad (food blessed by gods) from over 50 of the biggest temples around the country. Shubhpuja will send a pundit (priest) and everything else required to conduct a puja (prayer) ritual at home, office, or pandal. There’s also ePuja which conducts pujas online, makes offerings to the gods on behalf of devotees, and finally delivers the prasad from temples to their homes.

https://www.techinasia.com/startups-make-hay-as-religious-fervor-sweeps-40-billion-market-india 

The story behind the ‘Instagram of China’

Yang Liu, the founder of Fotoplace, a Shanghai-based startup comparable to Instagram. 

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Ironically, Yang Liu never wanted Fotoplace to be the Instagram of China when it was founded in 2014.  In fact, her original goal was to combine tourism and film, not photography and film, by curating travel itineraries that traced important scenes from different movies.

https://www.techinasia.com/fotoplace-instagram-of-china 

 

This awesome Hover Camera drone goes on sale today

The self-flying, selfie-taking, face-tracking drone, with its rotors safely tucked inside a carbon fiber mesh bodywork, costs US$599.
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Meng Qiu Wang, the creator of the Hover Camera and the founder of Beijing-based Zero Zero Robotics, tells me that he took the drone, which is about the size of an open book, to a BBQ party over the recent Chinese national day holidays and launched it into the air to take photos.
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Unlike most new hardware startups, the Zero Zero Robotics crew has avoided taking the gizmo to Kickstarter or Indiegogo.

via GIPHY

https://www.techinasia.com/carbon-fiber-hover-camera-indoor-drone-goes-on-sale-now
http://gethover.com/

Trump Wins on Social Following Debate #2

Six of the Top 10 hashtags were associated with Trump’s camp, with the recently promoted #bigleaguetruth accounting for 14% of the likes/comments for hashtags associated with the debate.
https://blog.captiv8.io/2016/10/17/trump-wins-social-following-debate-2

Trump's Twitter debate lead was 'swelled by bots'

The investigation was led by Prof Philip Howard, from the University of Oxford, and is part of a wider project exploring "computational propaganda".

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The researchers then analysed which of these had been posted by bots. They identified an account as such if it had tweeted at least 50 times a day across the period, meaning a minimum of 200 tweets over the four days.
The results suggested that 32.7% of such pro-Trump tweets had been posted by bots and 22.3% of such pro-Clinton ones.
In total, that represented a total of 576,178 tweets benefiting the Republican nominee and 136,639 in support of the Democratic one.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37684418