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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts (mashable.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

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[–] 9 points 3 years ago*

It's most likely scraper bots.

Twitter has started blocking no-login view of many parts and now every scraper is loging in to collect this data and Elon is either being automatically followed or suggested for new accounts.

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