Engagement Farming in simple words means to gain more and more reach on posts and account by using unfair means of practices such as posting Click-Bait Titles, Irrelevant Content, Meaningless Replies to Other Posts, Unverified News, Fake Information, Proviking Pictures etc. Every posts on X which has not officially confirmed by any media is contributes to engagement farming.
Why People Do Engagement Farming
After Twitter changed its name to X, it eased the restrictions on content posting making it a open-speech source for everyone who wants to raise their voice. In context to this idea there comes its flaws as well. A coin has both the sides. The ones who actually need got the help in real and the others who are just want popularity, also benefited by this scheme. X (Twitter) has Billions of subscribers, so it became easy hideout for spammer to work in shade. Although X is working to ruduce the spam but it is nearly impossible to tight the grip on everyone.
Benefits Of Engagement Farming On X (Twitter)
- Increase Post Reach
- More Followers
- More Likes
- More Retweets
- More Clicks
Although these things looks quite amusing but these advantages comes with side severe side effects
- Account Closure
- IP Ban
- Permanent Ban
- No New Account Creation
- Loss of original profile even if no suspicious activity is done
Who To Be Affected
If you post irrelevant content, spread fake news, reply useless comments in excess and use bots to follow/unfollow, retweet, like and comment. You may end up loosing Permanently from X (Twitter) with no hope of appeal. So, stop doing the bait activities because X is going to get harsh.
How To Identify Engagement Farmers/Fake Profiles
These are thousands of fake profile on X right now, you may encounter then regularly without even noticing whether the even noticing thier intentions of posting. So make sure to check these things and save yourself from being spammed.
- Number of comments that person is doing daily, there may be cases where a reason person can do more comments in a day but it not possible to do same number of comments in a row each day.
- Content of posts is the best criteria to find out real a d fake ones. Fake accounts publish posts in quantity but above that there never mention the real source of the news.
- Catchy Titles may come to your feed like Follow for part 2, if i get 10k likes on this post i will do this, giveaway to first 100 lucky winners who will retweet, like and comment. These types of thing are most likely click bait, try to stay away from it as much as possible.
- Instant retweeting of your post by random profile, try visiting that profile and you may see the number of retweets it did. Most likely there are some profile setup just to retweet others tweet.
These are some of the common tricks to verify the genunity of a person. Whenever you encounter Engagement Farming users who try to waste your precious time, try to report them as much as possible.