AkunSaya.com is a marketplace where people buy and sell social media and online games accounts. While the commodity is not a new thing among the people, the platform’s legality remains questionable.
Being published back on February 21, 2015, AkunSaya.com has gathered nearly three hundred registered users. The team rode on the vast growth of e-commerce and social media in Indonesia to present as a platform that bridges account trade for various purposes.
“An account with certain number of likes or followers will make it easier for online shops to promote their products. This account trade is common already, with people buying and selling Facebook, Kaskus, and other marketplace’s accounts. Nonetheless, there isn’t any platform that focus on account trade. This is why we came out with this idea. Not only social media accounts, online games and other accounts that have commercial value with huge prospect can also be posted here,” AkunSaya.com’s Founder Ezra Artah Sastra told DailySocial.
It’s not a secret that having tons of likes and followers becomes one of fundamental factors that bring success to brands. Regardless on the quality of the products, it can grow people’s trust, moreover if those are resulted in an organic way. Unfortunately, AkunSaya.com doesn’t guarantee whether all the likes and followers that an account has are real or fake. It merely bridges the buyers and sellers.
It is noteworthy, however, that Facebook and Twitter have both prohibited any activities related to account trade to be done. It is stated in point 4.9 of the Facebook legal terms that users may not sell an account without Facebook’s written permission.
You will not transfer your account (including any Page or application you administer) to anyone without first getting our written permission)
Twitter also has similar rule. This scheme is expected to reduce the number of people who create accounts only to sell them to companies or brands. Click this link for further explanation on this.
It seems that the regulation is still vulnerable to violation, as many of us having more than one social media account without any particular reason. In another case, @cnnbrk is an account that always tweets about CNN’s latest roll-outs that has two million followers. Rather than acquiring it, which violates Twitter’s regulation, CNN decided to recruit the account’s owner as their consultant.
So far, the worst punishment given to such account trade is the shutting of the related accounts, and it only applies in the U.S. In Indonesia, this type of trade doesn’t violate the law. Thus, it’s interesting to see how AkunSaya.com bridges the industry and attempts to make everyone happy.
