Facebook Mirror

Ticketmaster’s fan page is currently the 5th most visited fan page on Facebook with 156,000+ fans.  However, thanks to a recent post made by Chris Carrara of eastvillageidiot.com, it looks like the majority of those “fans” are in fact fake.  Chris writes:

These other “fans” looked a little strange. None of them have pictures in their profiles. And honestly, Tom Jones? It’s not unusual to have the name of a famous pop star, I guess, but that name seems a little generic. None of these people are in my network (or any network, for that matter), so since I can’t look at their profiles, I decided to view their friends.  Huh. That’s a strange coincidence. All of them are “fans” of Ticketmaster, yet none of them have any friends. This seems suspicious.

It seems silly that Ticketmaster would do something like this.   One user commented that this may have been done in order to take advantage of a special promotion that Ticketmaster was offering a few months back.  Regardless, it still serves the same purpose for Ticketmaster at the end of the day.