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It seems like a doable side project to generate a bunch of followers with their own names, faces, posting history, and relationship graphs, even for a beginning
by lordnacho 6y ago
It seems like a doable side project to generate a bunch of followers with their own names, faces, posting history, and relationship graphs, even for a beginning student of ML. It wouldn't surprise me if one had already done this in order to get freebees like the ones discussed in the article.
There's probably already serious efforts to weed out such people.
- dmurray 6y agoThe hard part isn't the ML. It's automating account creation etc without getting shut down by Twitter, Instagram, etc, all at a lower cost than the businesses who already sell social media followers at rates like $5 for 8,000 [0]. [0] https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2013/05/16/buying-twitter-followers-cheap-price-friendship https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2013/05/16/buying-twitter...