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Rumours on twitter that Amir Khan paid people to follow him..

The rumours started after his followers dropped by over 1 million overnight. Surely this isn't true is it?

He must have paid a lot of people to make any difference to his twitter numbers. Paying 10/20 people would make no difference he would have had to pay like 50,000 or 100,000 which makes me think it is a false story.

Rumours are it cost him £20k in total, the story also come on the day be splits with his manager Asif Vali.

I just can't see how it can be true. How many people did he pay to follow him and where did he contact these people etc. Just seems like a made up story.

Having had a quick glance on google this story dates back to before the Peterson fight. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if its true, he wouldn't be the first.

He has enough money to just pay for adverts on tv and in magazines etc if he wants people to know who he is and increase his fan base.

Gay if true.

is twitter numbers that important that you have to pay for followers?

Do you think his sponsorship money is linked to his popularity and twitter numbers are an indication of popularity?

I just can't see why anyone would care about twitter numbers that much to pay for it.

John Bloody Wayne wrote:Gay if true.

probably not good to be homophobic in your posts.

Only one way to find out. Just call me Schrodinger's homophobe.

If it only cost him £20k then surely the very, very most people he could have paid would be 20,000 as who's going to bother for less than a quid. Yet you say followers dropped by 1m in a day. Sounds like pony to me.

Any evidence or quotes.

There were rumours before the Peterson fight, Strongy, is that not evidence enough?

Union Cane wrote:There were rumours before the Peterson fight, Strongy, is that not evidence enough?

Khan has moaned about British fight fans in the past...So Strongy will give his hero the benefit of the doubt..

just when you thought strongy's Wlad/Chisorsa article was the most pointless bit of @#*% posted today...along comes this utter pile of non-newsworthy tripe. Had the OP mentioned Bradley Pryce I'd be more forgiving.

Truss must be due one of his "Khan is only popular because he is Asian" articles.

Or "Khan was only PPV because Pakistani's are sucker for one of their own".

DAVE667 wrote:just when you thought strongy's Wlad/Chisorsa article was the most pointless bit of @#*% posted today...along comes this utter pile of non-newsworthy tripe. Had the OP mentioned Bradley Pryce I'd be more forgiving.

Send me a pm when you actually make a semi relevant comment about boxing.

Well this is all very strange...

I was following Khan on twitter, unpaid I might add...
Now I'm not following him, I didn't do that!!

How odd.

Strongback wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:just when you thought strongy's Wlad/Chisorsa article was the most pointless bit of @#*% posted today...along comes this utter pile of non-newsworthy tripe. Had the OP mentioned Bradley Pryce I'd be more forgiving.

Send me a pm when you actually make a semi relevant comment about boxing.

Is that because you'd be too stupid to recognise it or because you're hatred of David Haye has rendered you legally blind?

Turns out that this is all malicious rubbish....


Khan had deactivated his twitter for a couple of days (not sure why).
It takes time for twitter to relink all the followers when the account is reactivated.

No drama!

DAVE667 wrote:

Strongback wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:just when you thought strongy's Wlad/Chisorsa article was the most pointless bit of @#*% posted today...along comes this utter pile of non-newsworthy tripe. Had the OP mentioned Bradley Pryce I'd be more forgiving.

Send me a pm when you actually make a semi relevant comment about boxing.

Is that because you'd be too stupid to recognise it or because you're hatred of David Haye has rendered you legally blind?

Stupid??? Haha........How many forms did you file today?

Ahh right. His split with Vali could be interesting though as he deals with his promotional company in the UK. Wonder if he'll end up on sky again.

Strongback wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:

Strongback wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:just when you thought strongy's  Wlad/Chisorsa article was the most pointless bit of @#*% posted today...along comes this utter pile of non-newsworthy tripe. Had the OP mentioned Bradley Pryce I'd be more forgiving.

Send me a pm when you actually make a semi relevant comment about boxing.

Is that because you'd be too stupid to recognise it or because you're hatred of David Haye has rendered you legally blind?

Stupid??? Haha........How many forms did you file today?

Dunno, what's that curly number that comes after two?

DAVE667 wrote:

Strongback wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:

Strongback wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:just when you thought strongy's  Wlad/Chisorsa article was the most pointless bit of @#*% posted today...along comes this utter pile of non-newsworthy tripe. Had the OP mentioned Bradley Pryce I'd be more forgiving.

Send me a pm when you actually make a semi relevant comment about boxing.

Is that because you'd be too stupid to recognise it or because you're hatred of David Haye has rendered you legally blind?

Stupid??? Haha........How many forms did you file today?

Dunno, what's that curly number that comes after two?

its called Poopie dave

I don't know about Khan but apparently Twitter have done this for loads of people today, it's all over Twitter. Paul Smith and Bellew discussing it earlier. As I said I don't know if true about Khan but the story itself in general is true.

Essentially Twitter have removed paid followers of people and put up the actual amount of people following them, some people have dropped by one million apparently.

Mine's still at 2.6 million

Hahahaha!!!

This is rubbish

the truth is most of Khans followers are fasting like he is and do not have the energy to type.

Champagne_Socialist wrote:Any more insults and BANS will be handed out

Who the f*** are you??

FYI you don't 'pay twitter followers' as in actual people, it's about paying for 'follows' from bulk blocks of fake accounts.

There was an article in the paper the other day about a fictional twitter 'character' that someone built from sratch to see how big a fake could get and one of the things the creator did to get things moving was 'buy' a block of something like 50k fake account followers.

http://fakefollowerstwitter.com/

Well, at $1500 for a million followers, it would make him look far more popular for a relatively cheap price. Many times I've seen twitter follower numbers being referred to as a casual barometer of fighter popularity - both in boxing and MMA. I would think that the extra million followers would've really bolstered his image as a popular fighter and made him back much more on contract negotiations for fights. It's actually quite smart*

*provided, of course, that it's true and not all complete bullsh!t

Gay is no longer an insulting term.

JabMachineMK2 wrote:Gay is no longer an insulting term.

Liverpool Football Club staff have been issued with a guide to unacceptable language so they can help eradicate verbal abuse from fans.

The handbook highlights "offensive" phrases including "that's gay"

Are you coming out........CS....

Must admit watching you on the shoulder press I did have my doubts!!  

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Are you coming out........CS....

Must admit watching you on the shoulder press I did have my doubts!!  

You interested??

How is the training going mate...

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:How is the training going mate...

Had an ankle sprain so kept me out of football for over a month so put on weight

managed to bench 105kilos with no one spotting me, 3 sets of 6 reps.

105kg no spotting? Are you a tank? 3 sets of 6 reps and your a footballer?! Haha! Jesus wept.

https://www.606v2.com/f191-weightlifting

Don't be like that top hat, so much homo erotic tension solely reserved to the weighlifting board cannot be healthy.

True. I think its a crock of Poopie personally. No offence champagne.

Professional rugby players tend to bench minimum 110kg for league standard so your almost there.

How are you that big and a footballer?

Im an ex semi pro footballer having played in Germany, i weighed 11st 10lbs and benched between 50-70kg on reps. We were advised no higher due to muscle mass depreciation thus resulting in loss of speed and agility......

seems a bit strange you bench reps of 105kg.....decent reps at that.....and your a footballer......odd.

Some people just have more lean strength mobile. Have a friend who's very lean (he's a cricketer) but still manages to get to c.100kg.

Been a couple of years but my PB, as a prop, was 115kg bench. Never felt super strong, just competitive with what other guys at the gym were doing.

My mate competes at WSM competitions and powerlifting comps in the U90kg category and his PB is something like 180kg, now that is nuts!!

Benching 106kg isnt really pushing it... Admittedly, the reps sound pretty bad@$$ for a footballer, but I can bench 270lbs. So Im fine with your stat-line... That said, I could probably also only bench about 106kgs for 18 reps, and I played ruggers....

Are you guys machines or something? When I was actively boxing I could bench about 80kgs and that was me really pushing myself...we're talking 4 or 5 reps. My 1MR was 90 and I almost died.

Unless we're talking about on the smithy in which case


I laugh at your puny efforts.

That's what i thought Jab. When i was competing at a decent level 70kg for me was bloody hard work with small reps.

Champagne_Socialist wrote:

JabMachineMK2 wrote:Gay is no longer an insulting term.

Liverpool Football Club staff have been issued with a guide to unacceptable language so they can help eradicate verbal abuse from fans.

The handbook highlights "offensive" phrases including  "that's gay"

No surrender to political correctness.

Surely 80kg is a bit light? I was doing 90 at 17 and 120 at 19 and even though i havent done it in years I reckon i could still do 80