Viral events (22)
I saw a link to this on another forum and remember this from last year where a number of people did huge numbers on iphone/ipad email submits using facebook events.
I thought facebook had closed the loophole that made this 'strategy' possible, but clearly its reappeared.
855k people confirmed they will be attending this one:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?ei...t=event_invite
and if you check the associated page, you can see that about 10 people per minute are sharing this event with their friends:
http://www.facebook.com/Desire.and.Somi.foundur.ex
Here's another one:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201437376581447
And here's the monitization for that one:
www.loudpromotion.com/iphone5
The sneeky thing about Facebook Events is that if you as an event organizer posts a wall update to the event, it will get emailed to all who have been invited & not rejected. So in the first example thats over 10m people!!!
I wonder how long it will take for fb to ban this one!
*Update*
http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q...ts&type=events
There are 100s of these at the moment,
I want to try it but am reluctant to take the risk.
What do you use to take screenshots and annotate?
I love viral FB apps, events, pagess, etc!
@d3s0 - skitch - mac only 
Originally Posted by tijn
I've decided to try this. Does anyone know how to remove the "wall" from the event?
i dont think you can, and you want to keep your wall for people to post to. helps with the viral spread.
On the event pages you provided they hid their walls and made people post on "pages" promoting the event.
Is it possible to use facebook ads to get this viral? Or do they ban these?
I tried this last week and was surprised that it worked.
I tried to duplicate it but my links kept getting reported and I just stopped doing it.
tijn
Overall this stuff is quite the headache, but i know the results are staggering. Also people HAVE been heavily sued for this by Facebook, some Facebook hacker just recently was sued for major $$$ (he made some intrusion app/phishing scam mix that posted aff links on each others wall which is a LOT worse then a fake group, but just thought i'd mention it)
@stackman - facebook is on the war path and suing people left right and centre.
@shanktank - if you look at the first one they have actually as of yesterday not posted a link. it will be interesting to see what happens next.
ive signed up to both events just to see how they work it.
Some "older" affiliates here might remember the infamous Kentucky Derby campaign...
Basically this guy created a fan page for each horse in the race. Started conversations between the horses and got millions of people to follow it. I believe some of the biggest newspapers caught on to it as well.
He pushed a lot of email submits and blew up Neverblue's server at some point (don't know if that's really true though)
He eventually got shut down cause he promoted some betting stuff but the idea is genius.
Facebook is way too strict these days to get away with stuff like this. Even when you do get away once or twice there is really no legs in it long term.
they not dealing with this one very well then. in the last 15hrs or so 60k people have confirmed the event, and a further 500k additional people have been invited but have not responded.
why is this particular one so successful? Is it the absence of the link? Is it the non descriptive facebook page? Im not sure yet but something is blowing this event up.
yesterdays stats compared to today.
yesterday:
today:
Originally Posted by stackman
Latest one I saw involved clicking a link and it would take you to a page that was content-locked. The thing is, once you clicked the link (from a friend's wall/news feed) it would immediately post the link to your wall without asking for permission, thus causing a chain reaction.
Here are some links I saved:
http://www.wtfisthishiz.info/ http://mynewfiance.net/ http://www.onlinemoviespalace.com/video/video.php
Originally Posted by stackman
They cloak their affiliate links and networks rotate the aff id's so that it looks like a bunch of affiliates are pushing volume (this is when people are doing 5-10k+/day).
They also have fake/false info in their CPA accounts so that when the CPA Network "hands their info over" to FB they are fine and just get running on another account.
Furthermore, they often have offshore bank accounts or companies to be even more secure. And, when they login to their CPA accounts or their FB tools they login using a dedicated server paid for with a prepaid mastercard and then login to another offshore server and then into a VPS where they run their bots.
So as you can see, it's a fairly elaborate setup.
I'm not saying it's full proof but there are steps people take to protect themselves.
I am not saying you should do any of this as spamming/illegal phishing is wrong and unethical
My 13 year old neice just sent me an invite to this event. 13 year olds...good quality leads! Plus, WTF kind of a number is 10,000,00 ? 10,000,00 ... Really? :-)
@jakz
lol yeah noticed that too. That'd be an immediate warning sign to me if i was an unsuspecting invitee
Its all over
Wonder whether they had time to monetise. I didn't see anything in my stream or email so I guess not.
Interesting though cause the related page (the one they wanted you to like) is still there:
http://www.facebook.com/Desire.and.S...dur.ex?sk=wall
Which suggests they deleted this themselves. Maybe this was not about monetization but about driving up likes.
The other thing I noticed is the engagement rate:
The other thing is the Welcome tab - which new users will land on.
It redirects to another page!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Girl-u...49488551799385
Keep watching this one!!
Originally Posted by tijn
Wonder whether they had time to monetise. I didn't see anything in my stream or email so I guess not.
Interesting though cause the related page (the one they wanted you to like) is still there:
http://www.facebook.com/Desire.and.S...dur.ex?sk=wall
Which suggests they deleted this themselves. Maybe this was not about monetization but about driving up likes.
The other thing I noticed is the engagement rate:
The other thing is the Welcome tab - which new users will land on.
It redirects to another page!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Girl-u...49488551799385
Keep watching this one!!
They probably got lots of people reporting them and FB shut them down with the reason of fake promotion or something. The first event I did, when they shut it down, they send me an email, the consequent ones that get shut down get no notifications at all.
Obviously, not having an affilaite link on the event page will make the event spread virally much faster, but at the same time you gotta be on your toes and make sure when the event blows up to like 6 figure numbers, you better start monetizing before it gets shut down.
It's pretty tiring because the first few hours, the ball doesnt seem to start rolling.
And yeah, the page that they were ordered to be liked, can also be used to monetize. I posted an affiliate link and got tons of LIKEs on it. weird shit. lol
Once again, it drains our energy because of the wallposts screaming that you're a scammer and all that shit.
I suggest that if you want to do this, always cover the wallpost part with your hand. LOL
Has anyone tried this lately? There was one I saw a few weeks ago that used disneyworld as the angle, an had a ridiculous amount of likes. Turns out they were using the same coreg network as me and I got my AM to tell me what they make. They were upwards of $20k a day.
I love how your AM told you what they make.... not cool at all from that network!
These pages will always squeeze by, and some will be a lot bigger then others. $20k a day is just dandy, but doing it longterm is where it gets real
The fan pages won't ever make it long term, because fb will smack them left and right
The angles can be applied to other campaigns though, ive see the disneyworld angle before and its great for certain demo's!
I think if you want this kind of thing to work in the present FB world you need to a) have some incentive/competition/offer that is believable and seems legit, b) have any links to affiliate offers and such a fair way away from the FB page. That is, appear to be running a giveaway campaign to celebrate the release of something, then monetise down the track with a well planned funnel.
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