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                              Gaming the system

> By December 2011, lajello’s profile had become one of the most popular on
> the entire social network. It had received more than 66,000 visits as well
> as 2435 messages from more than 1200 different people. In terms of the
> number of different message received, a well-known writer was the most
> popular on this network but lajello was second.
>

“How a Simple Spambot Became the Second Most Powerful Member of an Italian
Social Network | MIT Technology Review [1]”

Only lajello isn't a human, but a spambot, but using the information in the
article to boost your own ranking on MyFaceGoogleSpaceBookPlusTwitter is left
as an exercise for the reader.

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/view/529696/how-a-simple-spambot-became

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