Friday, August 24, 2012

GVLN - Are Torrents Destroying Hollywood? Part 2

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In our last article we looked at torrents and a site where nearly 2,000 videos are hosted for free downloads.  We discussed the quality of the files and the file types.  In this section we are going to go further into the quality of the video files themselves and once again you will be shocked at what we have found.  On testing the videos, we found the quality of the films to be outstanding.  So we wondered if the quality could be maintained if these files were transferred into DVD format to play on any DVD player.  In many cases, you end up losing a good amount of quality when transferring up.

Our first test on one of the films we downloaded didn't work to well.  The quality of the picture was fine, however, the sound did not transfer to the DVD.  There were also compatibility issues with some of the DVD players we tested the video on.  We switched to a different program that took longer but gave us much more control over.  On that end we had a tremendous amount of success.  We were able to make a great DVD copy from the torrent video.  We were able to put a new menu and scene selection as well as a play button.  On test, the new DVD passed as being excellent.

  What that means.  In our last section we talked about the lead time on the video, The Avengers.  This video is released one month before it's retail scheduled release and while it is still playing in some movie theaters.  This means an average person can take one of these downloaded torrent files and turn it into a viable copy.  Once the copy is made, it's not hard to press about 20 copies per day on the average desktop home computer.  Give a person 5 days and one can press about 100 copies by the weekend.

  As Saturday hits, those 100 copies can easily make their way to any flea market for sale.  If it costs about $3.00 per copy to produce, one can sell copies for about $8.00 each making $5.00 profit per copy.  That $8.00 price tag is much lower than the $18.00 new release price that the stores will be asking so if the flea market is a good location, one could easily sell all 100 copies over the weekend.  Profit to the pirate?  About $500.00 minus expenses for the space at the flea market plus travel and food.  On Monday, the process starts all over again.  So within a 4 week lead time period, it's very possible for a pirate to pocket about $2,000.00 just on one video.

  Think $2,000.00 isn't a big deal?  Let's look at that from a real perspective.  Once again, all one has to do is look at how many people a day are already downloading a copy of this one video.  Thousands of people a day.  If 100 people decide the pirate the video for profit, $2,000.00 become $200,000.00.  100 people making 400 copies and selling them over a 4 week period means 40,000 lost retail sales or  at a price of $18.00 each, $729,000.00.  That's nearly three quarters of a million dollars in lost sales from pirating.


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  That still does not account for the lost sales from the people who illegally downloaded a free copy who now will not be buying or renting this film.  So it's fair to say that the net loss just from this one torrent site alone is in the millions of dollars.  This is only one torrent site.  There are hundreds of sites hosting torrents all over the world.  Once it's on one, it;s easy to put it on others.  Now let's once again go back to all the other videos on this one site alone and you see the pirates have an entire industry to plunder.

  This now leads to our next question.  How did the people hosting the torrents get a hold of a copy of the film before it's release date?  The copy we downloaded was not shot in a movie theater.  It's as clean as they come.  Others on the site one would say is obviously hacked from disk.  Not that hard to do.  But this being a film not yet out on disk and not being a film copied to a video camera from a movie theater, it's not hacked.  This is were we will begin our next section of this story.



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Gloucester, VA Sheriff's Race - Two Candidates Now On The Ballet

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Clarence Bowser and Darrell Warren are the two candidates now seeking election this fall for the Sheriff's position.  Clarence Bowser is running as an independent and Darrell Warren is running under the Republican platform.  There are no other challengers to Darrell Warren from inside the Sheriff's Office this time although Clarence Bowser is an ex sheriff's deputy from the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office.

This is not the first time Clarence Bowser has run for this position but he gets very little local press compared to other candidates in past campaigns.  Clarence has written a book and it is available on Amazon.  The name of that book is Penalty of Justice: The Pro Se.  CLICK HERE to see the title on Amazon.  You can also read a good section of the book to get a feel for it right on the Amazon site.


























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GVLN - Are Torrents Destroying Hollywood? Part 1

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Are torrents destroying Hollywood?  There have been a number of articles we have been reading all around in regards to just his subject.  Some complain that torrents aka peer to peer file sharing is costing Hollywood movie studios billions of dollars in revenue.  Others complain that Hollywood is doing it to itself.  We set out to see exactly what the real deal was as we have seen a lot of holes in all the stories out there.  You are going to be surprised at what we have found.   

We began by searching out a torrent software product that has an excellent overall rating.  Once we found the software and loaded it the rest was easy.  What we found was a real shocker.  We came across a host web site that could easily be compared to the Amazon of movies.  Though the selection was limited to just under 2,000 videos, the selection was still very impressive and hosted on an incredibly well laid out site where a great deal of both time and money was spent on the site.

The image to the right here is a sample screen shot of the listings from the site we are presently talking about.  If you click on the image, you will get an enlarged view.  This site has it all.  If you choose to view the info on the movie, you go to a new page where a brief synopsis of the movie is on the page along with usually 3 screen shots from the actual film.

You also have an option to watch a preview of the film you are considering.  The majority of the previews we have watched are the actual trailers for the film with only a few that were done by someone from outside of the movie studios.  Again, when you opt for the film preview, a new pop up window appears and the preview plays on the pop up.  This is some nice expensive software and design.  Again, look at the picture above.  That is a very well thought out site design.

  This site above is where we ran the vast majority of our tests.  Again the site is extremely well laid out and no expenses seem to have been spared.  Yet there is no charge for downloading any of these movies.  You read that right, no charge for downloading any of the movies on this site.  This site also has a very large Facebook fan page where they announce all their latest releases.

  On the torrent software, there are an average of between 200 and 400 seeds or people at any given time of the day or night that are both downloading these films as well as uploading them.  The way the torrent software works as you are downloading something, you are also uploading a smaller section of that same file to someone else as well as other films you have in your torrent list that others are looking to download.

  It's an exchange service of sorts.  The site we are discussing here makes the entire process seem very legitimate because of it's incredible professionalism.  What really shocked us is the new video release that showed up on the site a few days ago.  The Avengers.  This film is still being played in some movie theaters and has a release date of September 25th, 2012.  This torrent site already has the entire video available for download for free.  With hundreds of people downloading this video at any given moment during a 24 hour period, that means that thousands of people a day are getting this film before it even hits the store shelves.

  So on that end, yes, Hollywood is suffering huge losses on the potential sales of this and other titles before it even hits the shelves.  Plus as we have already said, this film is still playing in some movie theaters.  That affects the sales of tickets at the theaters as well.  The picture here shows the download from the torrent site.


This site usually offers the film in two to three formats.  1080 P full high definition, 720 P standard high definition and when available, 3D 1080 P.   The site has all three formats available for the Avengers film on line now.  More than a month before it's scheduled release date.  Amazon has a pre order price on the 3D Blu Ray version of 29.96 with free shipping and you have to wait for it.  It won't ship until release date.

  How do you estimate the loss on this one title alone?  We ran our tests for two weeks.  We were able to download about 50 films with a retail value of somewhere around one thousand dollars.  Again that was only for two weeks and we did not spend all day every day doing so.  We downloaded about 4 or 5 per day.  About 3 to 4 hours worth of time each day.

  We checked a number of items during this time.  We checked for back door attacks, viruses, open port hacks, malware, spyware and anything else that could go wrong.  We had no issues on any of the files or any of the times we downloaded and uploaded the torrents.  What about quality?  Here is where once again we were very shocked.  The quality of the torrents are extraordinarily good and the file formats used on just about everyone of these films were a universal MP4 format.  Only a couple of the films was in an mkv format.  The mkv format is not a common format and one will not be able to play the video without a special codec or video player to handle the file format.

  MP4 videos are about as universal to operating systems as MP3 audio is.  Microsoft, Apple and Linux systems can all handle these formats.  Even Andriod enabled products have no issues with this file format.  Every film we checked played very smoothly and was of true HD quality.  Only the mkv file formats had some motion issues.


Ending notes:  This ends part one of this series.  We have not mentioned the name of the exact torrent software nor the name of the site in this discussion for a reason.  The site contains illegal downloads that do hurt legitimate companies and their employees.  It is not our intention to teach people how to download illegal video files, but to educate people in the problems associated with these types of sites and issues.  We have since deleted the torrent software from our own system and will soon be deleting the downloads once this series is over.



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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Gloucester, VA History 1893 E-Book


Now here is a very rare book we have just finished editing.  Written in 1893 by Sally Nelson Robins, it has some history in this book that we were not even aware of.  Example is that in 1710, Gloucester, Virginia was the most populated and most prosperous area in all of Virginia.  Gloucester Place was the former home of President John Tyler and located right off of 

Gloucestertowne Road.  This book is a great resource not only from an historical standpoint, but also from a genealogy standpoint as well as it contains a great deal of old family names and places.  We spent a lot of time on correcting both spelling errors and punctuation errors however there are plenty of places we could not fix or where text is completely missing as well as some pictures.  If we are able to find these in the future, we will update the book.  You are welcome to download this book for free from our Slideshare page as it comes with a Creative Commons License 3.0.  
  We have a huge library of old and rare books on Gloucester and area history that we will be working on for some time to come.   Once they are done, we will be publishing them here on this site.















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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

GVLN - An Army psychiatrist says Facebook hurts our troops

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Our soldiers are being devastated on an unexpected front: Facebook.
Troops who have survived shellings and shootings can find themselves emotionally wounded by online photos of spouses partying with strangers and innuendo-laden updates that betray a very different “status” than that of a devoted girlfriend back home.
Access to social media has created famous problems for the military — from pictures of soldiers acting disrespectfully, to troops inadvertently releasing the names of American dead before families were notified.
But just as problematic is the damage social media is causing soldiers’ psyches. Military psychiatrists have reported that Facebook on the front lines has played a part in a host of problems, including depression and suicide in active-duty military personnel.

“About 80% of all of our intake had some Facebook flavor,” said psychiatrist Dr. Valeh Karimkhani, an Army reserve major who has served two tours of duty in Iraq.
Karimkhani, who served in 2008 and again in 2010, said the damage was apparent when she watched troops using Skype and Facebook at the Al Asad Airbase.
“When you’re on the other side of the world and you see all these pictures of your wife or husband with a new group of people, new friends, it becomes really concerning,” Karimkhani said. “They would become depressed and paranoid and end up in psychiatry, saying, ‘I’m going to kill myself.’ ”
Military psychiatrists are now able restrict troops’ access to social media, change a soldier’s password — even force a mediated phone call with a warring spouse.
“Sometimes after contacting the spouse, they could see it was innocent,” she said.
Of course, there are times when suspicions are accurate. One soldier received a Facebook message from her husband on their anniversary, telling her he’d fallen in love with another woman and wanted a divorce.

“That was particularly cold,” said Karimkhani, chief of psychiatry liaison services at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, Calif.
The risks are even higher if it’s the soldier who is bragging about exploits online: Adultery by military personnel can be punishable by jail time.
“I am always amazed at the things people would put on Facebook, thinking it wasn’t a public forum,” Karimkhani said. “People would put some sort of back-and-forth innuendo with a new girlfriend on their wall and then be surprised that people would find out. I always want to say, ‘Hey, buddy, this isn’t your journal.’ You’re basically taking a bullhorn to say, ‘Hey everybody this is what’s happening in my life!’ ”

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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Ex 911 Operator Holli M Cohoon Responds

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We recently have had several emails from Holli M Cohoon, the one who was the 911 operator in the case we have been covering for several months now.  We are going to show you what her response to all of this has been.  Before we show you her response, we are reprinting the information in question.
In order to follow the entire story, you can CLICK HERE and go to our site where the only thing on the site is evidence of this case.  We are now starting off with the soundtrack from the 911 call.








Now keep in mind, we took the 911 call recording and had it analyzed by a 911 call center professional who informed us every area where the call recording was in violation of 911 call protocols.  We were informed that there are only two ways to interpret this recording.  One, it's fake.  Two, it;s a cut up piece of evidence or in other words, highly tampered with.  Now this is just the 911 recording itself.  We have not even begun to touch on the other two pieces below this recording.

  Now let's look at Holli's own testimony that comes directly from the court transcripts.   To open with, Holli states that the 911 recording that you just heard above is a true and correct copy of the 911 call she received.  Holli then claims that she can not remember if she called the victim in this case back or if the victim called her back.  This was only a few months after the incident.  Question right here.  Where is the recording of this second call?  According to the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office, all calls from that time period have since been erased and that there is no evidence that even this call took place.  They have no record of it.  I have the email from them on this.  So without evidence of there being a second call, no second call ever took place.

  Now I also have to ask the question, where did Holli come up with the victim being armed with a shovel?  All one has to do is listen to the above 911 recording again and at no time is a shovel mentioned.  In fact, a gun is not mentioned either, yet you hear Holli state not one but two times for the victim to not shoot out that door.  Holli's testimony here about the victim having a shovel can only come from having conversations with both sheriff's deputies and animal control officers in collusion to develop their evidence story.  In other words, it sure looks like Holli is lying and perjuring herself to no end.

  The second audio recording we have numerous people stating what they heard Holli say that is in direct conflict with the 911 call recording as well as Holli's own testimony.  At this point there was enough to throw this case out.  In our opinion, Michael T Soberick was either a lousy 10 cent lawyer or he was misrepresenting his client and working more for the county.

  Now let's look at Holli M Cohoon's recent statements to all of this.  Sent via her Facebook account email.


I dont normally use this facebook account and just saw this message. Perhaps you should think outside your circle of friends and attempt to get all statements before publishing info. I have no idea about your "fun raid" theory. I simply answered a 911 call and was told by another dispatcher that an officer was at the door with animal control and to tell the caller the same. When the caller disconnected from the 911 call, I called her back on a landline! I dont know why the second call was not taken to court as I stated in testimony! I didnt and dont have access to the "taped call database"... that would be my prior supervisor! ASK her! Perhaps it was "gone" by the time the tape was requested because it was a landline, I DONT KNOW! The 911 call you have on your site is NOT altered in any way as I recall the conversation, but I did call her back! I DID NOT LIE in court, I DID NOT recieve a "payoff" and I DONT know of any conspieracy.. I dont even know which deputies were on her property other than Sgt. Emauelle. Perhaps thats why I was told to answer that perticular 911 call !! Lets get the "new girl"! I worked at the sheriffs office less than 2 years while preparing to open a business. It was not my "cup of tea" and VERY well known! I was not friends with or in any circle of friends within the sheriffs office.. didnt attend parties, gossip etc. I am a "come here" and left the Glou Shefiffs Office as soon as I got a loan for the business. You are "investigating" the wrong person, I am requesting that you take all info about me and my business off your website and turn your attention torwards those who know what the hell when on that day. Like I said, I was new to this county, an outsider, and have no idea about all the crazy crap that goes on in Gloucester County "good ol'boy" Society. Just wish we hadnt moved to this crazy place! Thanks!

To begin with, just because she claims she does not use that facebook page does not mean she didn't get the message as the message would have went straight to her email account.  Strike one.  Second, she is arguing about getting her side of the story before publishing any story.  Well, this was the chance.  She didn't want to respond before this.  Third, I never asked her about any kind of fun raid. she got that from reading this site.  That's three strikes already.

  Now this is where everything really becomes interesting.  Holli claims she was told to answer the 911 call from the victim and that there was already a deputy and animal control on the property?  Major violations of 911 protocol.  How did the 911 operators know this ahead of time?  This is very serious stuff Holli just released.  

  And now Holli, who after 3 months, based on her own testimony now states that she called the victim back when she stated in a court she could not remember who called who?  This is now more than two years later?  And what is with the land line statement?  Is she telling us that all 911 calls are not land line calls coming in?

  Also, now Holli is saying that there is a second phone call?  The sheriff's department has no record of a second phone call.  Someone here is lying.  Holli is also saying that the 911 call above is not altered.  She states this above.  Well then she blatantly refused to follow protocol for 911 emergency procedures then?  That's what she is saying otherwise.  She states she did not lie in court.  Where did the shovel come from Holli?  There is no evidence of any conversation of a shovel.  You didn't lie?  Really?  I'm having a very hard time believing that.

   One also has to love her statement, "I did not receive a payoff."  No one ever said she did.  Isn't it interesting that she brings this up?  Now another interesting area here at this point is Holli making the claim," let's get the new girl.",  What does that mean?  Is she saying she was setup?  Why would she even think that somehow she might have been setup?  

  Another interesting area is Holli's statement that she was only working the 911 call center until a loan came through for her to open up her present business, Sunrise Donuts. Try and get a 911 call center job sometime.  One goes through a lot to qualify for that job.  The background checks and intense interviews are not easy to pass.  It's not like getting a job at Wal Mart.  It's a career job.  A tough job no question about it, but it's not something one goes into while waiting for a loan.  

  Holli makes it very clear here that everyone at the Sheriff's office knew she hated her job?  
Is this why she thinks that maybe she was setup somehow?  And at the end of this first communication she claims that she was an outsider who could not wait to get out of her job as she was not comfortable there?  And why was she not comfortable?  That is very interesting.

Now here is Holli's second response;

Holli M Cohoon  1:32am Aug 9 

"Not long after leaving the sheriff's office, she gave false statements in court against the victim in our news stories and also received a very large sum of money from the Gloucester Sheriff's Office. 
 Not long after that, Holli opened a new business.. One could say that the Sunrise Donuts Shop has been financed by the tax payers of Gloucester County as the Sheriff's Office is not supposed to be a money making enterprise. The finances come from we the tax payers." 
 Whatever wording you choose.. the above sounds like a "payoff". Again, I did not recieve "a large sum of money" from the Sheriffs Office. Or any sum of money from the Sheriffs Office. No, I dont believe I was "set up" , my comment was facetious. I was simply the second chair dispatcher that day. I have given you my side of the story, the truth. Its just not nearly as exciting as the version you are posting. I find it interesting that you say you dont publish the so called "victims" name in your report, yet I am now a victim and you have no problem posting mine. I am being wrongfully accused of lying and being involved in a 'conspiracy", it is quite hurtful and damaging to my reputation. In reguards to the recent posting about how I got -  Name removed' - address for the Protective Order.. I was not assisted by the Sheriffs Office, I just"googled" her name. Just goes to show how something so simple can be turned around to a sinister nature. Again, I request that you do not post anything else about me or my business.

  The top part of this response has to do with another article written about Holli.  We received inside information from someone close to Holli who volunteered a great deal of news to us.  Everything we were able to check came out verified and one area we could not verify without breaking a number of laws, so in a case like this, one has to deem the information as being valid based on all other verified information.

  We could not report the exact statements given to us as it has the potential to reveal the person who gave us this information.  If that should happen, the person who revealed the information would then have to file protective orders against Holli in fear of retaliation.  With that said, we are still not revealing the exact information that was given to us and we are choosing to protect the informant.  To clarify though, there is no reason to believe that Holli received some kind of direct payoff for lying in court.  That was not our statement and never has been.

  The second part of this response deals with Holli now claiming to be a victim.  It's fair to say that she has become a victim.  While these responses have been going on, this is the same time that Holli had filed for protective orders against the victim in this case.  The first hearing was in Holli's favor but was contested and an appeal was filed.  The appeal was held a little over a week later.

  Judge Long heard the appeal, in our opinion, there is a clear conflict of interest here in having Judge Long hearing that appeal, we reported before the first hearing that judge Long was one of the people who should not hear this case because of potential conflicts of interest.  However, we have reviewed all the details on this case already and will not press that issue.  Based on information that came out in the protective order hearing, I have to side with Judge Long.  He was correct in granting the order.

  The details mainly are based on a video the victim shot outside of Holli's Sunrise Donuts shop and then posted the video on Facebook and then proceeded to post some comments afterwards that were considered to be a potential threat to Holli.  

  Now here is where the story continues to twist and turn and get even more bizarre.  The behavior could not be considered normal.  The victim has since been to a doctor and diagnosed as suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.  Please CLICK HERE  to see more about PTSD from the Mayo Clinic's website.  Though this does NOT justify the victim's actions, it does explain the victim;s actions against Holli,  

  The victim in this case has been through so much over the past several years that she keeps reliving the entire event of the illegal raid and all the issues that have followed.  The victim lives in a constant state of fear because of all of these issues.  She worries about suffering another illegal raid and even possibly being killed by the local Sheriff's Office Deputies or Animal Control Officers.  She also worries about what the courts may do and that they might try to lock her up.  This is an everyday event for her.  This is what numerous county officials and employees have created.  

  Now there are other interesting statements that Holli makes in her remarks.  She states that she has told the truth but is now being put into the middle of a conspiracy.  Does this mean that she knows that a conspiracy exists?  And if she knows that a conspiracy exists, why is she going along with it?  That would make her a part of the conspiracy and lying to cover it up.  Each time she has sent a response to us, she has had some very serious holes in her story that open a lot more questions.

http://www.facebook.com/holli.cohoon?sk=friends&v=friends&ft_ref=fbsa  Here is a link to Holli's friends page on Facebook.  She claims to not have been friends with people in the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office.  These remarks are right on this page in her own writing.   Her page sure tells another story.  She has a bunch of friends from the Gloucester County Sheriff's office.  But remember Holli does not lie.  She told us so herself numerous times.  In the event she removes these friends, we have taken numerous screen shots that show the state of friends on this date and time.  Friends from the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office, Animal Control and local county court system.  

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Friday, August 17, 2012

Federal court rules cops can warrantlessly track suspects via cellphone

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GVLN - Birth control for men edges closer

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Researchers make male mice reversibly infertile without using hormones.
Developing oral contraceptives for men has not gone as swiftly as researchers imagined in the early 1970s, who suggested at the time that a 'male pill' was not far off1. But today researchers report a new way to make male mice temporarily infertile.
Although the treatment is not ready for human use, that potential does exist because the method avoids some of the pitfalls of earlier attempts, says Diana Blithe, programme director for contraceptive development at the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the study. Blithe is excited by the findings: “The field has a number of leads,” she says, “and this is among the most promising.”


The technique, which is reported today in the journal Cell2, appears to have a much more specific action than previous methods: it impairs sperm production by blocking a protein called BRDT. This protein was singled out as a potential therapeutic target five years ago because it only occurs in the testes, where it is required for the division of sperm cells.
If the approach proves safe in humans, it would be an improvement over hormone-based methods of male contraception, which are not completely effective and cause side effects such as mood swings, acne and a loss of libido.
These typically employ progesterone and testosterone. The progesterone limits sperm production, but it also impairs other 'male' features, such a high muscle mass and the ability to get erections, which a limited amount of therapeutic testoterone then restores.
“The best thing is that we did not affect hormone levels,” says study author Martin Matzuk, a reproductive biologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
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How Many Fake Followers The Most Popular People On Twitter Have?

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Ever wonder if some of the most popular people are really as popular as they seem to be?  Is it possible that maybe, just maybe they are not as popular as they would have you believe?  Take a look at this one site that has uncovered fake and inactive followers for some of Twitter's most popular people. Is Lady Gaga nearly as popular as she looks?  No.  47% of her listed following is fake and another 30% is inactive out of 28,445,916 followers.  That;s more than 75% of her listed following.  She still has a very impressive number of real followers, but no where near what is being shown.

Rihanna's numbers are even worse.  With a following of 23,314,400 followers, 48% are fake and another 36% are inactive leaving only 16% actively following her.  Again, the real number is still impressive, but over 84% of her following does not exist.

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Is there some company out there that sells fake followers for Twitter?  Buy 1,000 followers on Twitter for only $99.00?  Special for this week only?  Get 100,000 followers for a mere $1,300.00?  Surprise your friends.  Well we have not found a pay for network yet, but we have found a free network that promises to help you grow your following and Lady Gaga is on the list.

Grow your network on Twiends.  Sign in with your Twitter account and from your Facebook account.  Get more followers by adding your account by country and by interests.  Could this be where the fake followers or the drop outs come from?  Hard to say.  Guess it only goes to show, not everything is what it may seem.

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