In our last post about Nicky Kallongis' book Myspace Music profit Monster we investigated Myspace as a hosting solution and method for reaching more listeners. Nicky talked about using Friend Adders as a way of generating more "faans" annd exposure on myspace.
We decided we would give it a go for a short while and report back with our results. Myspace has some strict rules about using Friend adders - specifically you cannot invite more than 350-400 a day or they will delete your profile. In practice about 50-75 a day is the safe limit for friend adding.
Additionally some myspace profiles don't accept invitations from bands- or their profiles are private. You can't do anything about this - just move along and look at the next person in the queue.
In order not to jeopardize any of our legitimate accounts we used an alias that i set up to release some jokey Old Skool electro tracks - Trollingforlulz.
We did a cursory search for myspace friend adders. When approaching these sites you have to be careful as some of the sites feature adverts which are far from work safe. The biggest Google hit was for Friendfrost - which appeared to be an online repository for people to post their ID's rather than a friend adder per se.
