Sentence examples for inflated popularity from inspiring English sources

IT WAS all too little and too late to recapture the inflated popularity that Vladimir Putin enjoyed during his first few months as Russia's head of state.

Putin's defiant annexation of Crimea and the destabilization of eastern Ukraine inflated his popularity at home.

Software makers also complain that competition in the App Store has become so brutal that many companies resort to artificially inflating their popularity rankings to grab attention.

Plays can be bought for pennies and delivered in bulk, inflating videos' popularity and making the social media giant vulnerable to manipulation.

One assumption was that bot-makers tend to produce many similar bots and link them to each other to inflate their popularity.

These companies appear to be using paid links to inflate their popularity.

Such a virus might be used to artificially inflate the popularity of an advert, a song on a music website to help generate a larger return for criminals.

One signal Piron says Bright*Sun can (sometimes) distinguish is when a startup is faking it — be it by buying social media followers, or manipulating app store rankings to artificially inflate the popularity of their app, for example.

The explosion of websites creating and sharing demonstrably false news and propaganda, and the rise of bots and fake social media accounts that artificially inflate the popularity of those stories make it challenging for many average readers to sift through fake news to find legitimate stories.

It's perpetuated by bots, fake accounts set up to artificially inflate the popularity of a website, social media post, or advertisement.

According to an IRIN tally, almost half of YCHO's followers have less than 10 followers themselves, while some 1,000 followers were accounts created on the same day in 2016 – signs that a significant number of bots or fakes are inflating YCHO's popularity.