Advertiser's Bots Raise Their Heads Again on Facebook
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 31/07/2012 17:11
Any business that advertises on Facebook wants eyes looking at its ads and then fingers clicking on them. Facebook gets paid based on how many clicks that ad receives - effectively, on how many users it can send to a particular brand.
On Monday came an explosive claim that could give pause to brands trying to figure out if advertising works on Facebook. A Long Island start-up company said it was pulling its ads from the social network because it discovered that its ad clicks were far more likely to be coming from Web robots - or bots, as they are known -- than human Facebook users.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/bots-raise-their-heads-again-on-facebook/
Also see:
Facebook Spars With Advertiser Over Click Fraud Allegation [IDG]
Facebook said Monday it has defenses in place to detect click fraud despite one company's claim it detected suspicious clicks on its advertisements billed to it by the social-networking site.
Limited Run, a company based in Manorville, New York, wrote on Monday that it was deleting its Facebook page within a couple of weeks after it determined 80 percent of the clicks may be fraudulent.
www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/260076/facebook_spars_with_advertiser_over_click_fraud_allegation.html
