<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">@Mildred</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Otherwise known as 'the Influencer Economy'. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">It's not far off that Brands will start realising that they are being taken for a ride. Authenticity online simply cannot be bought. Sooner or later the dirt will start surfacing..</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 8:46 AM, Mildred Achoch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mildandred@gmail.com" target="_blank">mildandred@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Very interesting! This particularly caught my attention. The role of parents...</div><div><br></div><div><p class="m_6570269591349618376paragraph" style="margin:0px 20px 1em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.29;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:600px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51)">According to a <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5030582/aspiring-child-youtubers-callum-ryan-erin-bradley-arabella-daho/" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)" target="_blank">recent profile</a> in the British tabloid The Sun, two young siblings, Arabella and Jaadin Daho, earn a combined $100,000 a year as influencers, working with brands such as Amazon, Disney, Louis Vuitton and Nintendo. Arabella, who is 14, tweets under the name Amazing Arabella.</p><p class="m_6570269591349618376paragraph" style="margin:0px 20px 1em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.29;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:600px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51)">But her Twitter account — and her brother’s — are boosted by thousands of retweets purchased by their mother and manager, Shadia Daho, according to Devumi records. Ms. Daho did not respond to repeated attempts to reach her by email and through a public relations firm.</p><p class="m_6570269591349618376paragraph" style="margin:0px 20px 1em;line-height:1.29;max-width:600px;box-sizing:border-box">Regards,</p><p class="m_6570269591349618376paragraph" style="margin:0px 20px 1em;line-height:1.29;max-width:600px;box-sizing:border-box">Mildred Achoch.</p><div><div class="h5"><br>On Monday, January 29, 2018, Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span>Listers</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span><br></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span>To what extent are those followers on twitter for your favorite socialite, politician or celebrity real people or Bots?</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span><br></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span>Here’s an interesting expose from the New York Times. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span><br></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span>#GoFigure </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span style="font-weight:600"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span style="font-weight:600">THE REAL JESSICA RYCHLY</span> is a Minnesota teenager with a broad smile and wavy hair. She likes reading and the rapper Post Malone. When she goes on Facebook or Twitter, she sometimes muses about being bored or trades jokes with friends. Occasionally, like many teenagers, she posts a duck-face selfie.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Read on:-</div><div><br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/intera<wbr>ctive/2018/01/27/technology/<wbr>social-media-bots.html</a></div><br><br><div><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.c<wbr>om/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."  ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Rock 'n' roll film festival, Kenya TV Channel! <br><a href="http://kenya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