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TechnologyEnglish • 1 year ago

Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

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TechnologyEnglish • 1 year ago

We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

Elon Musk’s X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts::undefined

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18•1 year ago
No, Spez used fake users to make Reddit seem bigger than it was back when it started. He discusses this in an online course.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/
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  5•1 year ago
  Thanks for sharing, it seems like a standard strategy for back in the day when you didn’t have all the metrics investors seem to want now.

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