How many followers do you have? 10s, 100s, 1000s, more? When you first start out on social media, building a following can be slow. And for that reason many people are now opting to buy their friends. But apart from being a bit sneaky, are there any other disadvantages of buying Twitter followers? We’ll discuss that here. How Do You Buy Followers?  The most common way of buying followers is through a method called ‘zombie account following’. This is where you enlist the services of...

In 2014 we’ve already seen the success of the Winter Olympics in Sochi and we still have many sporting events to come including the World Cup in Brazil and the Commonwealth Games in sunny Scotland. These sporting events are also big social events. We plan to book tickets using instant messengers and we brag about our good seats to friends – or we moan about that missed opportunity through posts or tweets before keeping up with the news on other events that we can’t attend. Sporting...

From global pop stars to footballers and all the Z-listed celebrities in between, Twitter has become the modern day social platform for a good old fashioned slanging match. Using the instant message platform to their advantage, insults can be published immediately, reaching all corners of the globe and with the potential to be seen by millions. In amongst the insults are some comedy battles, with some of the more memorable involving a One Direction member and a national rugby player, another...

Did you know that Russians are the most active social network users for anywhere in the world? More active even than Britain’s 15 year old girls who Tweet their every thought and Instagram every cat, food or sunset they see. And yet they aren’t on the globally popular sites like Facebook and Twitter, all 100 million users (yes one hundred million!) are on the social site VK. What is VK? Put very simply, VK is a much larger and more efficient version of Facebook. If the more efficient...